Quicksilver Highway (1997) on Netflix
Aaron Quicksilver travels the highway telling horror stories to strangers. A stranded newly married couple hears of wind-up toy teeth, and a pickpocket hears of a man whose hands turn on him.
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Plot summary
Aaron Quicksilver is a showman who travels the highway, telling horror stories to the people he meets, and he calls himself only a storyteller. His listeners have a way of becoming figures in the tales themselves. He comes upon a newly married couple stranded on a desert highway and tells them of a man menaced by a dangerous hitchhiker and saved when a set of carnivorous wind-up toy teeth comes to life. A pickpocket he meets after that hears of Dr. Charles George, a man whose own hands rebel and turn against him. The two tales are Chattery Teeth and The Body Politic.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Quicksilver Highway (1997)
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- Casting director Lynn Kressel proposed Christopher Lloyd as the storyteller Quicksilver; the network loved the idea, but Garris was skeptical, wanting a "little more seductive" actor, though he ended up loving the choice.
- Playing Dr. Charles George, Matt Frewer struggled to make his hand move as if it had a separate mind; it took about three days to master, and by the third day he was having "hand nightmares" between shoots.
- The practical hand effects were performed by Christopher Hart, a magician who had played hand-only characters in three Addams Family films; he wore a rubber prosthetic and a green sleeve so green screening could remove his arm, and four days were spent shooting his hand.
- Steve Johnson handled the chattery teeth effects, while Flash Film Works and Bill Mesa were responsible for the moving hands; around 90% of the hands were digitally animated with LightWave 3D and composed using the Chyron program Liberty.
- The home media version swapped the order of the two stories from the television version, putting "The Body Politic" first and "Chattery Teeth" last; Fox required the change and Garris disliked it, feeling "The Body Politic" was more climactic.
