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Doctor Mordrid
USA 1992
produced by Charles Band for Full Moon
directed by Albert Band, Charles Band
starring Jeffrey Combs, Yvette Nipar, Jay Acovone, Keith Coulouris, Ritch Brinkley, Brian Thompson, Pearl Shear, Murray Rubin, Jeff Austin, John Apicella, Julie Michaels, Mark Phelan, Kenn Scott, Scott Roberts, Steven Marca, Jonathan Kruger
screenplay by C.Courtney Joyner, based on an idea by Charles Band, music by Richard Band, special effects by Dave Allen
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Doctor Mordrid (Jeffrey Combs) is a magician from another dimension
sent to earth to protect humankind - which he does as a semi-recluse
living in an up-scale apartment while pretending to be a specialist in
supernatural criminology, about which he lectures around the country.
Protecting earth has been a rather easy job for the last 100 or so year,
since Mordrid's arch enemy (and the only macician who could ever threaten
him) Cabal (Brian Thompson) had been locked away in another dimension -
but now he has broken out and makes his way back to earth. Fortunately,
Mordrid has picked up his trail thanks to his neighbour Samantha (Yvette
Nipar), a police consultant who has turned to him for assistance because
of his special knowledge ... but unfortunately, soon enough the police
believes he's involved in a couple of murders actually committed by Cabal
and company, and he is arrested and stripped of his magic amulet. But
Samantha has never stopped believing in him, and now she returns the
amulet to him and helps him escape. Ultimately, Mordrid has to face
Cabal in the Metropolitan Museum, where the two use dinosaur skeletons to
fight their battle for them. It's not that hard to guess who wins ... Sure,
Doctor Mordrid is not the most original film - the mere fact that
it was actually originally intended to be an adaptation of the Marvel-comic
Doctor
Strange before the rights got somehow lost should be enough of
an indication here. That said though, Doctor Mordrid is also plenty
of fun in its formulaic way, inasmuch as it doesn't take itself too
seriously but manages to tell its story in a light-footed and fast-paced
way, and while it might have been made on a moderate budget, every dollar
seems to be well-spent, and some of the special effects are simply great
(in both idea and execution) by any standards. That all said of course Doctor
Mordrid is not Citizen Kane - but it's a fun 75 minutes of
genre entertainment anyhow!
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