Anton Mordrid is a wizard sent to Earth by a being called the Monitor, to stop the evil wizard Kabal from opening the gate to Hell. When a series of strange robberies occur, targeting powerful magical reagents, Mordrid knows that the time has come for a final battle with his nemesis.
And if you know your comic books at all, or possibly just the Marvel Cinematic Universe, you might immediately be thinking "Gosh, sounds a bit like a Doctor Strange knock-off", and indeed Full Moon Entertainment initially developed it as an adaptation of the Marvel comic, but their option expired before production began. Never mind, though: change a few names, slap in a topless lady so the target market of teenage boys will be happy, and Doctor Mordrid will be ready for his cut price adventures at your local video rental store!
Honestly, I'm not being entirely fair to Full Moon, here. This film comes from their early years of operation, when the (unexpected) commercial success of the first few Puppet Master films allowed them some genuine ambition in their productions. Ambition beyond their ability to actually deliver, mind you, but ambition nonetheless. I mean, I kind of can't be too down on a film that has "animated T Rex skeleton vs animated Mammoth skeleton" as its plan for a climactic magical showdown.
Doctor Mordrid is not a good film, but it's a bad film with a level of passion and verve that the hallmark of "so bad it's good" straight-to-video schlock from the late 80s and early 90s. If only the work of The Asylum, and other modern day schlockmeisters, had half this much energy.
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