Doctor Mordrid

I discovered terrible masterpiece because a friend of mine (hey, Heather!) found out it was going to be riffed on the next season of MST3K. It was supposed to be Charles Band and Full Moon Entertainment doing Doctor Strange -- yes, they had the rights to Doctor Strange -- but when the rights lapsed, they'd already made it into pre-production. Not wanting to waste their efforts, they stripped out all the references and copyrighted stuff and plunged ahead with this ... ahem ... "original" idea. If you know Charles Band/Full Moon and their output, you should know what to expect. Cheesy special effects, acting that reminds you of Jon Lovitz's "actor" character on SNL, the most ridiculous plot contrivances and happenings, dialogue that couldn't be less human if it was written by a tardigrade, full-frontal nudity for no good reason other than "hot chick is in the cast" ... it's all here. But it also has Jeffrey Combs of Re-Animator and From Beyond as the titular Doctor, and Brian Thompson (one of those "oh, that guy!" guys) as the evil Cabal, and they leave no piece of scenery left unchewed. Toss in a female lead in Yvette Nipar looking as cute-90's-girl as humanly possible, and a movie that knows it's stupid, but toes a fine line about not being clever about it, and you've got the kind of 3:15-in-the-morning-on-USA movie you can watch and laugh at without feeling like you're wasting time.