Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (made in 1972) was one of five movies Hammer Films released in 1974, the year Hammer pretty much collapsed. Captain Kronos's writer-director, Brian Clemens said on the Blu-ray commentary track that he helped arrange the $400,000 bank financing for this movie.
Hammer thought so little of this movie that they put it on as the bottom half of the double bill release with Frankenstein from the Monster from Hell, the final Hammer film directed by Terence Fisher.
Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter is a crummy movie that is cheaply made, has a miscast lead character whose German-accented voice was totally dubbed in and which, in the form of Kronos's humpbacked assistant Grost, has one of the worst hero sidekicks ever. The sword duel scene at the end of the movie is long and terribly executed, amateur night. The whole mess looks like a TV movie, down to the flat lighting throughout. Cinematographer Jack Asher, where are you now that we need you?
Hammer thought so little of this movie that they put it on as the bottom half of the double bill release with Frankenstein from the Monster from Hell, the final Hammer film directed by Terence Fisher.
Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter is a crummy movie that is cheaply made, has a miscast lead character whose German-accented voice was totally dubbed in and which, in the form of Kronos's humpbacked assistant Grost, has one of the worst hero sidekicks ever. The sword duel scene at the end of the movie is long and terribly executed, amateur night. The whole mess looks like a TV movie, down to the flat lighting throughout. Cinematographer Jack Asher, where are you now that we need you?