He never really went away. He's done a lot of odd acting jobs and runs a podcast. He seems much happier now than he did 20 years ago and he just started working on a sequel to Coven since the directing bug bit him again.

If the Hulk dogs scene had been shown in better light (or replaced with a cooler animal, or cut out entirely) and had featured a final fight scene that you could actually see, and with the tone lightened up just a little bit this movie would have worked so well.