Quicksilver Highway

Quicksilver Highway (1997)

Aaron Quicksilver is a mysterious storyteller whose listeners invariably end up as the subjects of his gruesome, grisly tales. He tells a new bride stranded on a desert highway a horrifying account of a set of carnivorous toy teeth, then entrains a pickpocket with the spine chilling story of an army of murderous, disembodied hands.

Date of release
1997-05-13
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (76)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Horror, Thriller, TV Movie
Director
Mick Garris

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: $4M
  • Based on: Chattery Teeth and The Body Politic

Quicksilver Highway is a 1997 made for television horror anthology film directed by Mick Garris. It is based on Clive Barker's 1985 short story "The Body Politic" and Stephen King's 1992 short story "Chattery Teeth". The film was originally shown on the Fox Network on 13 May 1997, before being released on home media.

Production

Creative 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. The agency suggested multiple ghost stories and urban legends to write about, but Garris had another idea. The series would follow a mysterious character who describes himself as "only a storyteller" but is actually much more than that.

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. "The Body Politic" was filmed at the Santa Monica Pier, while "Chattery Teeth" was filmed in Lancaster, California. When playing Dr.

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