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Quicksilver Highway (1997)
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Movie Review by The Gravedigger
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11.27.04
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Mick Garris, who has probably directed more Stephen King adaptations than any other director, takes a stab at the anthology format, a la CREEPSHOW. In addition to the connecting story, there is one based on King's short story 'The Chattering Teeth' and one on Clive Barker's 'The Body Politic'. To tell the truth, I've never read either short story, so I can't say how well the adaptations are. But as a whole, the movie seems unfinished, as if it's a stretch to connect the trio of tales.Christopher Lloyd is the crazy looking 'Collector', who comes across a pregnant bride (Missy Crider of FRAILTY) waiting in her stalled out car on the highway. Her husband (Raphael S'barge of HIDDEN 2, CARNOSAUR), with whom she was married to earlier that day, had gone off in search of help. Lloyd takes her into his mobile home and tells her a strange tale, about a guy (the same actor who portrays her husband) who is given one of those wind-up Chattering Teeth toys at a roadside gas station. It comes in handy when he picks up a violent hitcher. The other story is about a surgeon whose hands start having a life of their own. They make him mess up in his surgery and they even strangle his wife to death. The first hand to have a mind of its own even talks-and urges other people's hands to 'Join the Revolution'. Other people's hands do, until there's a whole herd of the disembodies appendages walking around.While I was watching this movie I kept on thinking that Christopher Lloyd was far more entertaining as Uncle Fester in THE ADDAM'S FAMILY movies-as was the hand, Thing.
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Rating: 8.8 out of 10.0 - 5 votes cast total
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