Doctor Mordrid

Directors Albert Band and Charles Band had originally conceived this film as an adaptation of the Marvel Comics character Doctor Strange, for which they had obtained the license from Marvel Entertainment. However, the pre-production phase took so long that by the time filming started, they lost the rights to the name. Instead of scrapping the film altogether, the script was rewritten into an R-rated standalone film.

The device Mordrid places on the scroll/map to take some kind of reading is being used incorrectly. The device is a navigational sextant. It is used outside, to measure the angular distance between to far-off visible objects as an aid in celestial navigation. Placing it on the map as he does would provide no useful information whatsoever.

Edited into Full Moon Fantasy (1993)