doctor mordrid

For several years now I'd been on a fervent, if not contradictorally lazy, search for a long lost small film made by Full Moon, the people that brought us "Puppet Master" and "Gingerbread Man".  The other day I mentioned it to an acquaintance of mine who shares such high standards in film making and to my surprise, he had a copy. This film is long out of print and he had a copy. He "lent" me a copy and I watched it that night.
That amazingly not in print film is "Doctor Mordrid".


"Doctor Mordrid" began production as a movie version of the Marvel Comics character Doctor Strange. For reasons unbeknownst to me, Marvel pulled out and left Full Moon with a full script without a main character. Full Moon sucked it up and changed his name and whatever copyrighted characters and/or things they had to. The result of what would typicaly be a trainwreck, is pretty damned good.



To say the least, if this was a made for tv movie in the early '90's, it'd be remembered as awesome. A major highlight of the climax is the fighting dinosaur skeletons. Pretty damned sweet.

And yes, that is the incomprable, amazing, dynamic, should be way more famous, and should have an oscar already, master actor Jeffrey Combs.

If you know him, you know him from "Re-animator", or "The Frighteners", or perhaps even some Star Trek Enterprise, or maybe in his awesome roll in "Abominable".

thanks for reading.(the three of you that did).