Doctor Mordrid (1992) on Netflix
R19921h 14m
Anton Mordrid, a wizard sent to Earth by the Monitor, must stop Kabal from opening the gate to Hell. His tenant Samantha Hunt, a police research consultant, tries to learn his secrets.
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Plot summary
The Monitor sent the wizard Anton Mordrid to Earth to stop Kabal, an evil wizard who needs the philosopher's stone and a set of alchemical elements to open the gate to Hell and let his minions out of the Fourth Dimension. For 150 years Mordrid has watched for signs of him, and he now works as a criminal psychologist while renting rooms to Samantha Hunt, a police research consultant. When elements that Kabal needs begin vanishing in a series of thefts, Mordrid takes up the search for his enemy. Samantha keeps pressing her landlord about the secretive life he will not explain.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Doctor Mordrid (1992)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Doctor Mordrid started life as a licensed Doctor Strange film: directors Charles and Albert Band got the Marvel rights, but the license lapsed before shooting, so they renamed the wizard and rewrote the plot instead of scrapping their work.
- The film found a later audience when it was riffed on Season 13 of the cult TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000, broadcast on June 10, 2022.
