7/14/2023 0 Comments Quicksilver highway![]() ![]() The moment Fox began developing the project, McTiernan left the director's seat on the project, leaving Garris to have to direct the screenplay himself. In the end, however, Garris loved the decision. He wrote a screenplay of Clive Barker's " The Body Politic" to serve as the film's second part after "Chattery Teeth." Casting director Lynn Kressel, who previously worked with Garris on The Stand (1994) and The Shining (1997), came up with the idea of Christopher Lloyd as Quicksilver while the network loved the decision, Garris was a bit skeptical, reasoning that he want a "little more seductive" actor to play the part. However, Fox wanted a two-hour television film. After writing a pilot script based on Stephen King's short story " Chattery Teeth," Garris pitched the series to Fox. Just after Brandon Tartikoff signed on as producer, Garris pitched the idea to staff at the American Broadcasting Company the heads of the network weren't interested as they didn't want any horror material in their broadcast schedule, but a couple of the network's executives like Greer Shephard got on board. Each episode would be set in a different location, with the same actors playing different characters. The series would follow a mysterious character who describes himself as "only a storyteller" but is actually much more than that. The agency suggested multiple ghost stories and urban legends to write about, but Garris had another idea. Melissa Lahlitah Crider: Olivia Harmon Parker/Lita HoganĬreative Artists Agency met with Garris about him writing the pilot script for a possible horror television series directed by John McTiernan and produced by his wife, Donna Dubrow.Raphael Sbarge: Kerry Parker/Bill Hogan.He later runs into a pickpocket to whom he tells "The Body Politic", a story about a man whose hands rebel against him. He first runs into a newly married couple who are hitchhiking, to whom he tells the story "Chattery Teeth", about a man who is saved from a dangerous hitchhiker by a set of wind-up toy teeth. The main story is centered on Aaron Quicksilver (played by Christopher Lloyd), a travelling showman who tells horror stories to the people he meets. The film was originally shown on television before being released on home media. It is based on Clive Barker's short story " The Body Politic" and Stephen King's 1992 short story " Chattery Teeth". Good for spending 90 minutes watching if it's on, and you've got nothing better to do.Quicksilver Highway is a 1997 television comedy horror film directed by Mick Garris. I recommend it to fans of King, Barker and Lloyd, and possibly also Garris. Good for one or two viewings, if you're into this type of horror. All in all, a pretty good way to spend 90 minutes if it's on TV and you've got nothing spectacular to do, but not something you'll be watching over and over again. They also both give you a little something to think about, once the story is over this is also pushed a little further in the epilogue for both segments, by the storyteller, Lloyd, which obviously proves that the director/scriptwriter Mick Garris certainly understood both stories, as well as their underlying themes. The horror in both segments is fairly chilling and disturbing. ![]() The special effects are about as good as they get for a TV movie budget. The direction is pretty good, especially for a TV movie. Both segments are about equally chilling and horrifying, though the first has more buildup and the second has more actual action, which shows the difference in the authors' styles. The characters are well-written, credible and easy to relate to, which, I guess, can be credited almost as much to the original authors(King and Barker) as the script writer and director(who, incidentally, is the same person). I especially enjoyed Lloyd, and his character, the storyteller, who is in both the prologue and the epilogue for both segments, and gives a further chill down the spine with his afterthoughts for both stories. The acting ranges from made-for-TV standard, and slightly better all four of the leads did a good job, as far as I'm concerned: Christopher Lloyd, Matt Frewer, Raphael Sbarge and Missy Crider. The plot for both stories is good(yes, even the King story, I have to admit, though I despise his works), and it's both involving and interesting, for both segments. I will say, however, that based on my limited knowledge of King's work(and my even more limited knowledge of Barker's) that I do believe that they did a pretty good job on bringing the stories to life in this movie. I'll start this review by saying that I've read neither of the short stories that this movie is based on, neither Stephen King's Chattery Teeth, nor Cliver Barker's The Body Politic, so I can't comment on whether or not they're accurate conversions of the stories.
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