Quicksilver Highway

Quicksilver Highway ( Original title: Stephen King's Quicksilver Highway ) is an American horror film directed by Mick Garris according to the templates of the short stories Chattering Teeth by Stephen King and The Revolt of the hands of Clive Barker. The budget for the television film was about four million U.S. dollars. The first broadcast was on May 13, 1997 U.S. television.

Action

The idiosyncratic Aaron Quicksilver loves traveling. During his many travels, he studied the way by eerie and spooky stories. Two of these bizarre stories he tells in the film:

Chattering Teeth

A commercial agent with his car on the road and can enter at a gas station and truck stop up a hitchhiker, whom he has previously approached by a hair. On the way the hitchhiker threatens the representative suddenly with a knife and asks him to stop and get out. The representative drives the car against an oncoming truck to ward off the threat of unbelted hitchhiker. This fails, the representative hangs upside down in his belt and is at the mercy of him threatening further hitch. But now a clockwork toy, a moving on two small legs, to opening and closing bite, which has just acquired at the gas station the agent saves him. It pounces on the injured pickup and makes him off. The teeth now approaches the representative who faints. When he awakens, he finds himself freed from the belt. The dentition is no longer visible.

Months later, the representatives examined in the same gas station. When you pay it recognizes the operator and handed him the "Forgotten" joke toys made.

After returning to the overall story, history repeats itself in part: told the story of a waiting bride before the rest area, in the Quicksilver, her groom is hit by a car. A toy teeth drags the body away at the collar of the road. However, it is no longer seen as the bride lamenting pounces on the corpse.

The revolt of the hands

One day, a cosmetic surgeon no longer obey his hands, then they strangle his wife and finally get him to himself to chop the left hand so that the other severed hands may convince the "revolution of hands " to connect. The previous theme of walking in the toy teeth varying enhancing and, finally crawling masses " liberated " hands on her fingers through the corridors of the hospital, in which the surgeon has been admitted after he could use a telephone with his nose. Part drawn by the hand of his remaining, the surgeon rises above a fire escape on the roof of the hospital, in front of his hands gather in a tree. The remaining hand of the surgeon continues as a " Messiah " at the top of the multitude, which are jubilantly behind flies, as the surgeon falls from the roof. Motionless or only twitching hands remain adjacent to the surgeon, the nightmare seems to be over. But now the noses begin to turn against their owners ...

Others

The European film magazine Cinema gave the film a high rating and wrote: Nerd Quicksilver tells two horror stories, with the presentation of the better second does not come from Stephen King, but by Clive Barker: " Back to the Future " Doc Christopher Lloyd are two eerie stories for the best.

The film was for three film awards such as the Emmy Award nominated in 1997 for the best music, but could not win a single one.

1997 in film Screenplay Film score Mark Mothersbaugh Shelly Johnson (cinematographer) Silas Weir Mitchell (actor) Travelling salesman Wind-up toy
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