Mister_Gordon_Shumway 'Quicksilver Highway' is the collaboration of two of the world's most talented literary horror writers, Stephen King and Clive Barker. It is a rather short anthology of two terrifyingly twisted tales, with an inset story featuring Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future). But do they terrify the average film-goer? A wandering storyteller, Aaron Quicksilver (Lloyd), narrates the tales in two strikingly different locations: Stephen King's 'Chattery Teeth' along a deserted stretch of desert highway and Clive Barker's 'The Body Politic' within the carnivalesque setting of a funfair.The more interesting of the two tales is 'Chattery Teeth', which tells of a psychopathic hitchhiker who falls prey to a relentless and dangerously-sharp set of chattering teeth owned by the travelling salesman driving the car. 'Chattery Teeth' is taken from a short story written by King and first published in 'Cemetery Dance' magazine in the nineties. Similar to the stories found in 'Creepshow' and 'Creepshow 2', it is a bizarre and disturbing story with a twist in the tail (think 'Twilight Zone' and the 'Ray Bradbury Theater').The lesser of the two is Barker's 'The Body Politic'. Here, a hand comes alive, goes completely out of control, and eventually attacks its owner. The story is taken from Clive Barker's 'Books of Blood: Vol 4' and is actually quite an entertaining and intelligent story ... in print. However, attempting to re-create this story on film just doesn't work. The effects are nothing short of laughable, which inevitably ruins a good tale.'Quicksilver Highway' is directed by Mick Garris, who has collaborated with Stephen King on more than one occasion (see 'Sleepwalkers', 'The Stand', 'The Shining' (TV), and the forthcoming 'Riding the Bullet' and 'Desperation'). He is also the man behind some of the 'Twilight Zone' episodes and 'Freddy's Nightmares', the latter explaining his less than efficient effort with 'Quicksilver Highway'.Nevertheless, the cast is well chosen - Matt Frewer (The Stand), John Landis (dir. 'An American Werewolf in London'), Bill Nunn (Kiss the Girls), and Clive Barker - and although the movie does have its tedious and ridiculous moments (check out Lloyd's fetishistic leather garb), it is watchable. Fans of 'Tales from the Crypt' and 'Tales from the Darkside' will certainly want to give this film a look-see.Matthew J Lee-Williams, Review.

MovieAddict2016 I was in a mediocre hotel in England, up at two in the morning and couldn't get to sleep. I decided to put the TV on and one of the first channels I flipped to was a show starring Christopher Lloyd. It looked pretty bad, but there was something about it that was strangely fascinating...I later found out that it was not actually a TV show, but rather a television movie. (Wow, big difference.) Christopher Lloyd plays Quicksilver, a mysterious old man who roams the country delivering moral tales. His first he delivers to a newlywed bride whose car has broken down, and whose husband has wandered away looking for a gas station.His tale involves a similar fate involving a man named Charlie (Matt Frewer) who picks up a hitchhiker and is nearly killed by him.The next involves a man whose hand is chopped off by his other hand (!) and all the hands in the world start a revolt. Yes, it's as silly as it sounds, and hilarious to watch.The movie is perhaps unintentionally bad, but I was entertained. It's a very corny, silly movie that is easy to watch. The special effects are simply awful in the hand-attack narrative. I loved it.Lloyd is overacting (or overREacting?) in a script full of clichés. Author Clive Barker and director John Landis even offer their not-so-subtle cameos.All in all, if you have nothing better to watch, this WILL keep you very entertained...a huge guilty pleasure.

ArbitraryNoun Seriously, I can't believe anyone was even remotely interested in putting this on television. I caught the tail end of the "hand" portion and hated my life for however long that took to finish. There was little else on broadcast television. If there were, however, I wouldn't be writing this; I'd have changed the channel and enjoyed living and breathing.As I write this, a new chapter has opened up, quickly becoming the obvious cliché it sets out to describe. How ironic! That was sarcasm. This is one of the worst things I've ever opted to leave on in the periphery. As far as leaving the television on for noise is concerned, you're better off sitting in silence.

Paul Andrews Quicksilver Highway starts in a desert deep in the the middle of nowhere as a newly married couple Kerry (Raphael Sbarge) & his babe of a wife Olivia Harmon Parker (Missy Crider) have a flat tyre on their car, Kerry says he will have to walk to the nearest town for help & sets off. Olivia sits in the car for hours waiting for her husbands return, eventually a travelling showman in a Rolls-Royce pulls up, he gets out & offers assistance & company while she waits. In his rather spacious looking trailer he introduces himself as Aaron Quicksilver (Christopher Lloyd), a traveller who collects bizarre stories about the dark side of America. He begins to tells Olivia one of these stories...Travelling salesman Bill Hogan (Raphael Sbarge again) is trying to get home for his sons birthday but is finding the going tough as a huge sandstorm makes driving the desert highways hazardous. He stops off at a road-side store run by Myra (Veronica Cartwright) & her husband Scooter (Bill Bolender) whom give him a pair of large metal mechanical novelty teeth as a present for his son. While there Bill gives a lift to a hitchhiker named Bryan Adams (Silas Weir Mitchell) who at first is polite but soon turns nasty as he pulls a knife & tries to rob Bill, during the confrontation they crash & Bill is trapped. Bryan isn't happy & decides to 'hurt' Bill but help comes in a very unexpected form...Back in the desert & Kerry returns, however it's not a happy reunion...Next we're off to an amusement park called 'Pacific Park' where pickpocket Charlie (Matt Frewer) makes a good living stealing wallets. Charlie comes across an attraction named the 'Exposition of Delightful Horror'. Inside he is welcomed by Quicksilver who shows him the 'Hand of Glory' & tells yet another tale...Dr. Charles George (Matt Frewer again) is a rich & very successful plastic surgeon catering for the wealthy, he is regarded as the best in the business. However strange things begin to happen to Charles as he seems to be suffering from hand spasms. It isn't long before it becomes clear that something sinister is going on as his hands strangle his wife Ellen (Cynthia Garris) & one chops the other off with a meat clever which sets a disturbing plan into action...Back at the amusement park Charlie leaves Quciksilver's attraction & is promptly brought to justice...Quicksilver Highway was a made for TV film that was written, co-produced & directed by Mick Garris that is watchable enough but is far from special. The script is based on two short stories, one by Stephen King called 'Chattery Teeth' & another by Clive Barker called 'The Body Politic'. I have not read either story but unfortunately both of them are very thin & don't translate to the screen that well, unless it's just Garris's poor teleplay. Both stories are too long & feature very little in the way of a twist which is an absolute must as far as these anthology stories go as far as I'm concerned. They both just plod along at a fairly pedestrian pace without much in the way of shocks, surprises or horror. Having said that there are a couple of great scenes, in particular the sequence in which Bill is threatened at knife-point by Bryan which is genuinely quite unnerving to watch & the scene when Charles chops his hand off with a meat clever as you see his face reflected in the shiny steel as it comes down & a pretty good severed hand effect. However these bits are few & far between & the rest of Quicksilver Highway really isn't that great. I also think that it would have been a lot better if the filmmakers had made three shorter stories rather than just two long ones. Garris does little to liven things up, I just don't find a pair of walking false teeth scary & in fact I was trying hard not to laugh. The hand segment features some ridiculous disembodied hands running around exactly like Thing from The Adams Family only with worse special effects & even more comical results, this is all taken & presently with deadly seriousness by director Garris which was a bad move as Quicksiler Highway loses a lot of credibility with it's overall play-it-straight humourless tone. There is no real gore or violence, a brief scene with some severed fingers & a really cool shot of Charles cutting his hand off, other than that forget it. The acting is OK with Lloyd always being fun to watch & a special mention goes to Missy Crider who is one fine looking young lady. Clive Barker turns up in a small role as a anaesthesiologist as does director John Landis in the same scene as a surgical assistant. Technically Quciksilver Highway is better than I expected & at times manages to escape it's TV film origins with some nice cinematography & on location shooting, the music is very cheap sounding though. Generally speaking Quicksilver Highway is a reasonable way to pass an hour & a half but there are much better horror anthologies out there. Worth a watch but nothing spectacular.