Doctor Mordrid

1992 Directed by Charles Band, Albert Band

An unspeakable evil has come into our dimension and wants to rule over Earth, and only a mysterious sorceror known as Doctor Mordrid can stop him.

Jeffrey Combs Yvette Nipar Jay Acovone Keith Coulouris Ritch Brinkley Brian Thompson Pearl Shear Murray Rubin Jeff Austin John Apicella Julie Michaels Kenn Scott

Alternative Title

Rexosaurus (Doctor Mordrid)

fantasy thriller action science fiction

72 mins More details at IMDb TMDb Report this film

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Review by Carlo Carlo 8

"based on an original idea by charles band"
that is funny for so many reasons
Review by pd187 ★★★★½ 2

why does a childrens wizard fantasy where jeff combs puts on a cape and does magic tricks w/dino skeletons have a full-frontal nude blood sacrifice? charles "entertainment" band just cant help it
Review by #1 Bratz Fan ★★★★ 2

Doctor Mordrid is basically a take on Doctor Strange, but with the huge difference that this time, the doctor is more... drid. And also, he is not a doctor. It's pretty good! It's got Jeffrey Combs, sorcery, apartment drama, Brian Thompson, re-animated dinosaur skeletons, Mordrid stabbing himself in the stomach with glass knives. What more do you need in a movie? Oh, and it also has a "philosopher's stone", which further cements my theory that J.K. Rowling is a huge fan of Charles Band productions. She also took the name Harry Potter from the movie Troll, and I'm pretty sure I came across one more example another time, but I can't remember it.
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Review by Geoffrey Broomer ★★★

The Doctor Strange to Roger Corman's Fantastic Four is surprisingly effective, and makes one wish that the Bands' had held onto the sorcerer supreme's rights.
I will wait for Minion Max to one day read this and direct me to the super cut that includes Combs' Mordrid, 90s FF, David Hasslehoff Nick Fury and 3 Dev Adam into the ultimate Avengers Assemble Edit. Until then, I will marvel at how relatively small Brian Thompson is here - and remind everyone that all roads lead to Christmas.
Review by James 2

Doctor Mordrid gets a bad rap but I'm not at all surprised. It is a Full Moon movie after all. Jeffrey Combs is not playing an eccentric character like the ones in Re-Animator or From Beyond. Yeah, he's a wizard who guards the Earth from a bad Wizard trapped in another dimension...but somehow it's a lot more normal than his other characters.
That being said I really enjoyed myself. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I watched it in the middle of the night coming out of a Cure-induced bad mood. I knew a silly Full Moon picture would lift my spirits and it did. That's all I wanted out of this. A silly, fun movie.…
Review by Zoe ★★★★★ 2

another absolute BANGER from my boy jeffrey
Review by Tom Morton ★★½ 5

The fact that the very first scene plays out entirely in slow motion sets the mood for Doctor Mordrid, a film that very probably should have been a short, or an anthology segment, but due to Full Moon wizardry gets stretched out to an extremely threadbare 72 minute feature. I still found it pretty likeable, thanks mostly to Jeffrey Combs' surprisingly low-key charm, an amulet that can sort of freeze people but not very well, Raven reaction shots and stop-motion dinosaur skeletons.
This would honestly be an utterly kick-ass half-hour short film, as the characters are fun and the production design is good - Mordrid's apartment / Wizard Lair is full of awesome stuff, and when he pops out to…
Review by Raventomb ★★½

A tale of two sorcerers in a low budget Full Moon style. Jeffrey Combs plays the titular hero and Brian Thompson from A.W.O.L plays his evil brother, Kabal.
Kabal threatens humanity with a terror "beyond an apocalypse", but annoyingly, Mordrid is dreadfully slow to react to everything his brother does. This is doubly annoying when you realise Mordrid is lucky enough to have the ability to float into space whenever he wants and speak to a giant pair of god eyes that tell him exactly what he needs to do.
There are some cool ideas in there though, like Mordrid having to painfully stab himself in the belly with glass knives so that he can fire them out his palms…
Review by DeepSpace9MM ★★★★

I wish that Doctor Mordid had gotten the franchise treatment that so many other Full Moon titles had gotten. I wish I could live in a world where there are, like, seven Doctor Mordrid movies in existence. Instead I have to settle for only one. *sigh*
I would much rather watch this than the actual Doctor Strange movie any day. Man, now I'm thinking about a world where Charles Band is in charge of making Marvel movies...
Review by Pink⚸Meanie ★★★½

What can I say, I'm a sucker for cheesy wizard battles.
Review by Hollie Horror ★

Doctor Mordrid is a perfect example of when you should scrap a film if you lose the rights to a character, but, maybe the intended Marvel adaptation of Dr. Strange would have been awful too?
Charles Band's strength lies with producing films, when he decides to direct films based on his undercooked scripts/original ideas, it hardly ever pays off and it's made even worse when there was a desperate stench of hurried, last-minute changes wafting about.
Joining Charles Band in the director's chair seated besides him is his father Albert Band, who, despite what we see here, was able to squeeze out a few decent films in his day.
The decision to pit Brian Thompson against Jeffrey Combs was another huge mistake, it was painful to watch. And, unfortunately, even Jeffrey Combs' performance wasn't successful in making the film enjoyable, it wasn't even watchable.
Review by Daniel ★★★★

Doctor Strange rip-off with Jeffery Combs? Only one word applies here;
erotic

Recent reviews

Review by Joshua Martin ★★★½

God bless Charles Band and Jeffrey Combs.
Review by Landen Celano ★★

Sometimes the perfect film reveals itself at the perfect time and for a brief moment everything is perfect.
Review by tessaroll ★★★★½

this was such a delightful watch! jeffrey combs was wonderful as always, i also really loved yvette nipar! the special/practical effects were so fun, too
Review by MM132 ★★★★★

If you ever wonderered what Doctor Strange would have been like if made in the 90's, this is the movie for you.
Review by zane ★★★½

this was fucking terrible i loved it so much
Review by MaxEdwardMorris ★★★

Wanted this to be better than it was, Combs is always fun, Brian Thompson is an entertaining himbo villain, but mostly they are holding balls of light at each other and having an overdramatic acting contest. Pretty light on crazy production that I’d expect from a Full Moon Feature from this period. However there is a fun claymation Dinosaur vs Mammoth skeleton fight at the end. Interesting to see what a low-budget Dr Strange rip-off is like in the Marvel movie era.
Review by Denver Grenell ★½

This is gonna be quick, as there is little of worth to note about this cheap Dr Strange knockoff from Full Moon Pictures.

With a runtime of 72 mins you’d think it might be a brisk bit of harmless fun, especially with Jeffrey Combs as the titular sorcerer. But alas, this thing is dull, so damn dull. Yes even with mulleted Brian Thompson overacting as the villain & stop motion dinosaur Skeletons & an inter dimensional space prison that looks like Laputa.

For some reason, half the movie has Dr Mordrid in handcuffs in the police station, the other half has him moping around his admittedly impressive apartment, but doing fuck all in the way of awesome wizard shit. Then we get…
Review by remi ★★★★

j combs is the only good part
Review by Joe_Pouliot ★★

Jeffrey Combs walked so Benedict Cumberbatch could fly. The stop motion was endearing.
Review by maxwell ★★★★★

doctor strange but if he was sexier and cooler
Review by Tepi ★★½

its stupid how much i enjoyed this
Review by Francisco Serna ★★

Well... It was done on the cheap, and it shows. But I have to say I enjoyed it quite a bit.
I liked how it looks. It reminds me of The Phantom or The Shadow film adaptations from back then. Maybe everyone was ripping Burton's Batman off, but it worked.
The music can get corny and cheap sounding at times, but it mostly does its job.
As for the acting, I like Combs a lot, he's a legend, and a very underrated actor. The rest of the cast is mostly fine, with some exceptions, like Brian Thompson. He looks the part, but he truly sucks.
Finally, the special effects are... Well, cheap. I love stop motion, and I sort of…