Quicksilver Highway

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Christopher Lloyd in Quicksilver Highway

Quicksilver Highway is a 1997 horror film directed by Mick Garris. It is based on Clive Barker's short story The Body Politic and Stephen King's short story Chattery Teeth. The film was originally shown on television before being released on video.

1 Plot
2 Technical data
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The main story is centered on Aaron Quicksilver (played by Christopher Lloyd), a travelling showman who tells horror stories to the people he meets. He first runs into a pickpocket to whom he tells the story The Body Politic, a story about a man whose hands rebel against him. He later 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.

[edit] Technical data

music: Mark Mothersbaugh
runtime: 90 minutes
release date: May 13, 1997 (USA)
budget: $4,000,000

[edit] See also

List of films about independent body parts
List of Stephen King films

[edit] External links

Revelations - The Official Clive Barker Resource Constantly updated news and archive of fascinating comment.
Quicksilver Highway at the Internet Movie Database
All Movie Guide entry for Quicksilver Highway

Novels, novellas, and Short story collections
v • d • e The Works of Clive Barker
Stand-alone: The Damnation Game \| The Hellbound Heart \| Weaveworld \| Imajica \| Books of Blood \| The Thief of Always \| Sacrament \| Galilee \| Coldheart Canyon
Books of the Art: The Great and Secret Show \| Everville
The Abarat Quintet: Abarat \| Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War \| Abarat: Absolute Midnight \| Abarat: The Eternal \| [untitled fifth book]
Short story collections: Books of Blood \| Cabal \| In the Flesh \| The Inhuman Condition \| The Scarlet Gospels
Films
Directed by Clive Barker: Salome \| The Forbidden \| Hellraiser \| Nightbreed \| Lord of Illusions \| Tortured Souls: Animae Damnatae
Directed by others: Rawhead Rex \| Underworld \| Candyman \| Saint Sinner
Other
Art collections: Clive Barker, Illustrator \| Illustrator II: The Art of Clive Barker \| Clive Barker Visions of Heaven and Hell
Plays: Incarnations: Three Plays \| Forms of Heaven: Three Plays
Video games: Clive Barker's Undying \| Demonik \| Clive Barker's Jericho
Recurring characters
Cenobites \| Pinhead \| Harry D'Amour