The Bloodsuckers Binge: a series of reviews on vampire movies in all incarnations as I look for, and find, any vampire movie I can get my grubby little hands on. The classics, the culty, the really good, the really old and inevitably: movies that suck!

Captain Kronos is one of the last genre films made by Hammer “house of horror” Studios. Among their productions are “Brides of Dracula” (featuring Peter Cushing) and “Dracula, Prince of Darkness” (starring Christopher Lee). With Captain Kronos, writer/director Brian Clemens and Hammer Studios tried to bring a new dimension to vampire stories, by seeking inspiration from American comic books.
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This year there is special interest for the biopic in the IFFR program. Not only will the festival be closed by Oscar-candidate Good Night, and Good Luck. by George Clooney (review soon), but there is also the biopic about Gustav Klimt (see earlier report) and a wonderful dazzling film about the life of intellectual and political activist Soe Hok Gie. Some more short reviews in this fourth report. Remember longer reviews will follow in the next weeks.
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