Huge news to excite fans of classic Brit-horror today. In celebration of its 50th anniversary, the previously announced 4K restoration of Hammer Film’s swashbuckling classic Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter has secured a one night only release in UK cinemas.
From 18th January 2025, the cult film will be screened at selected cinemas in major cities across the UK including Cambridge, Liverpool, Sheffield, Belfast, Glasgow and Edinburgh (full list below).
Legendary creator Brian Clemens (TV’s The Avengers, TV’s The Professionals) writes and directs this stylish, revisionist Hammer Horror pitting a swashbuckling hero, his trusty assistant and a feisty young ingenue against a cunning and malevolent vampire.
A rash of mysterious deaths due to accelerated ageing compels Dr Marcus to summon his brother-in-arms, Captain Kronos – once a soldier but now a professional vampire hunter. As the deaths continue, however, Kronos realises that this is no ordinary vampire he’s hunting.
Check out the film’s trailer in the player below:
Starring Horst Janson (Shout At The Devil, To Catch A King), John Carson (Doomsday, TV’s Poirot), Shane Briant (Hawk The Slayer, TV’s The Naked Civil Servant), Caroline Munro (The Spy Who Loved Me, The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad), John Cater (The Abominable Dr. Phibes), Lois Dane (Cash On Demand), William Hobbs (Willow, The Avengers) with Ian Hendry (TV’s The New Avengers, Get Carter) and Wanda Ventham (TV’s Sherlock, TV’s UFO), Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter makes its worldwide debut as a brand-new 4K restoration from the original negative film elements.
Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter shifted the paradigm on cinematic horror, creating a film for which appreciation has only grown over the decades – its post-modern script, stylish direction, memorable performances and folk horror mise en scène make it both of and ahead of its time. Its influence is hard to over-estimate. Fifty years after its initial theatrical exhibition, this new restoration of Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter celebrates an absolute classic of British horror whose time has very definitely come.
Here’s the full list of screenings:
18th January:
• BELFAST Queens Film Theatre
20th January:
• DUNDEE DCA
22nd January:
• FINSBURY PARK Picturehouse
• CAMBRIDGE Picturehouse
• CAMBRIDGE The Light
• BIRMINGHAM Mockingbird Cinema
• WALSALL The Light
• BOLTON The Light
• SHEFFIELD The Light
• STOCKPORT The Light
• NEW BRIGHTON The Light
• LIVERPOOL Picturehouse
• NEWCASTLE Tyneside
• EDINBURGH Cameo
• GLASGOW Film Theatre
• NORTHAMPTON Film House
24th January:
• BRISTOL Cube
28th January:
• MANCHESTER Home
Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter Limited Collector’s Edition 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray will be released from 27th January 2025. Pre-order now from Hammer Films, Amazon, HMV.
