Bluebell Alcock
Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies
Roman Sampson
One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
Jakoba
True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.
Scott LeBrun
Writer / co-producer / director Mick Garris keeps his tongue firmly in his cheek with this goofy pair of stories, which are told by kooky, mysterious character Aaron Quicksilver (Christopher Lloyd) to people he meets during his travels. Quicksilver, who's quite a sight to behold - Lloyd is decked out in red wig, dog collar, and man-in-black wardrobe - is both a collector of antiquities and tales, and is obsessed with exploring America's dark underbelly.First, he encounters new bride Olivia (Melissa Lahlitah Crider), whose husband Kerry (Raphael Sbarge) has gone off to get help after their car has broken down in the desert. To pass the time, he tells her the story of Bill Hogan (Sbarge again), who encountered a greasy psycho hitchhiker (Silas Weir Mitchell), and how Bill is saved by an extremely unlikely object, a novelty item of a set of chattery teeth. Based on Stephen King's story "Chattery Teeth", this segment features a cast also including Veronica Cartwright ("Alien") and has good desolate desert atmosphere. This is, in the end, one of those things that you can't possibly take seriously. It benefits from the sturdy acting of its cast.Then we move on to an adaptation of Clive Barker's "The Body Politic", which is definitely the more interesting of the two stories - its main conceit is a good one - but also ends up going in a blatantly comedic direction. Quicksilver regales pickpocket Charlie (Matt Frewer) with the story, about plastic surgeon Charles George (another role for Frewer) whose hands kick-start a local revolution of human hands, which want to leave the "tyranny of the body" and secure their freedom. Frewer really does a good job in this segment and helps you to buy into his characters' situation. Special effects are variable, but it's undeniably a hood to see so many severed hands in one place (Christopher Hart, who'd played Thing in the "Addams Family" feature films, performs the same sort of duties here).Garris works with a great bunch of actors here, people who are always a treat to watch, with the inimitable Lloyd having a high old time as our merry storyteller. Popping up in supporting roles and bits are Garris's lovely wife Cynthia, Bill Nunn as a psychiatrist, Bill Bolender, and sexy Amelia Heinle, with Garris and Barker themselves and John Landis doing the cameo thing. This is overall fairly lightweight stuff that's not too memorable in the end, but it *is* reasonably fun for the duration.Six out of 10.
kakoilija
i think that a religious sermon wouldn't be scared... i guess this has something similar to all king movies with more than one tale... it's cinematography is very good, and acting is not bad.it's just that it comes across lame and very cheesy... nothing to be seen here...i give my points from technical aspects...otherwise a miss... i've seen a lot worse too, but this is not a winner.the rest of the lines i'll recommend some horror-movies: the brood the uninvited the entity changeling ...those kinda movies have some depth
MovieAddict2016
I was in a mediocre hotel in England, up at two in the morning and couldn't get to sleep. I decided to put the TV on and one of the first channels I flipped to was a show starring Christopher Lloyd. It looked pretty bad, but there was something about it that was strangely fascinating...I later found out that it was not actually a TV show, but rather a television movie. (Wow, big difference.) Christopher Lloyd plays Quicksilver, a mysterious old man who roams the country delivering moral tales. His first he delivers to a newlywed bride whose car has broken down, and whose husband has wandered away looking for a gas station.His tale involves a similar fate involving a man named Charlie (Matt Frewer) who picks up a hitchhiker and is nearly killed by him.The next involves a man whose hand is chopped off by his other hand (!) and all the hands in the world start a revolt. Yes, it's as silly as it sounds, and hilarious to watch.The movie is perhaps unintentionally bad, but I was entertained. It's a very corny, silly movie that is easy to watch. The special effects are simply awful in the hand-attack narrative. I loved it.Lloyd is overacting (or overREacting?) in a script full of clichés. Author Clive Barker and director John Landis even offer their not-so-subtle cameos.All in all, if you have nothing better to watch, this WILL keep you very entertained...a huge guilty pleasure.
Coventry
Christopher Lloyd's name on the cover, Clive Barker in the writing credits and a nice enough sounding titles…those indicators were enough for me to give this film a chance….A decision I already regret. Quicksilver Highway tells two lame and tedious stories, even though the respected authors Stephen King and Clive Barker wrote them. Lloyd stars as the host and he looks like some kind of goofy masochist with a fetish for the occult. The first tale (by Clive Barker) is laughable effort in which a salesman is saved from a criminal hitchhiker by a set of chattering teeth-toy. I kid you not… My little niece has a toy like that and I must say it really looks scary indeed. I didn't think it would be possible but King's story is even lousier. The hands of a surgeon all of a sudden decide to organize a revolution and they want to be separated from the body! Talking hands, people…give me a break! Both stories run low on creativity and they're extremely repetitive…You'd be better of watching `The Hitcher' instead of the first story and `The Beast With 5 Fingers' instead of the second one. In the film, Christopher Lloyd keeps on stressing that his tales contain no moral at all…Well, it would have been better if he also mentioned they were pointless and a complete waste of time.
