Quicksilver Highway
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Quicksilver Highway |
| Original title | Stephen King's Quicksilver Highway |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1997 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mick Garris |
| script | Mick Garris |
| production |
Ron Mitchell Donna Dubrow Mick Garris Tarquin Gotch |
| music | Mark Mothersbaugh |
| camera | Shelly Johnson |
| cut | Norman Hollyn |
| occupation | |
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Quicksilver Highway (Original title: Stephen King's Quicksilver Highway ) is an American horror film directed by Mick Garris from 1997 based on the models of the short stories Rattling Teeth by Stephen King and The Rising of the Hands by Clive Barker . The budget for the television film was about four million US dollars . It first aired on May 13, 1997 on US television.
action
The headstrong Aaron Quicksilver loves to travel. During his many travels, he also looks for scary and ghostly stories. He tells two of these bizarre stories in the film:
Rattling teeth
A sales representative is out and about with his car and lets a hitchhiker get in at a gas station and rest stop that he almost hit. On the onward journey, the hitchhiker suddenly threatens the agent with a knife and tells him to stop and get out. The representative drives the car against an oncoming truck to fend off the threat posed by the unbuckled hitchhiker. This fails, the representative hangs upside down in his belt and is at the mercy of the hitchhiker who continues to threaten him. But now he is rescued by a wind-up toy , a set of teeth that moves on two small legs, opens and closes, that the sales representative just bought at the gas station. It pounces on the injured hitchhiker and kills him. The dentition is now approaching the representative, who passes out. When he wakes up again, he finds himself released from the harness. The teeth can no longer be seen.
Months later, the agent visits the same gas station. When paying, the operator recognizes him and hands him the "forgotten" joke toy.
After returning to the background story , the story is partially repeated: in front of the rest stop where Quicksilver told the story of a waiting bride, her groom is hit by a car. A toy bit pulls the corpse away from the street by the collar. However, it can no longer be seen when the bride throws herself plaintively on the corpse.
The rising of the hands
One day his hands stop obeying a cosmetic surgeon, then they strangle his wife and finally get him to chop off his left hand so that the severed other hand can convince him to join the " hands revolution ". Varying and increasing the previous motif of the walking toy dentition, masses of “liberated” hands on their fingers crawl across the corridors of the clinic where the surgeon was admitted after he was able to operate a telephone with his nose . Partly pulled by the remaining hand, the surgeon climbs over a fire escape onto the roof of the clinic, his hands gather in a tree in front of it. The surgeon's remaining hand sits down as the “messiah” at the head of the crowd, which now flies behind cheerfully as the surgeon falls from the roof. The hands lie next to the surgeon, motionless or just twitching, the spook seems to be over. But now the noses begin to turn against their owners ...
criticism
The European film magazine Cinema gave the film a high rating and wrote: “Quicksilver nerd tells two horror stories, the original of the better second not from Stephen King, but from Clive Barker:“ Back to the Future ”-Doc Christopher Lloyd gives two scary ones Stories for the best. "
Awards
The film was nominated for three film awards, such as the Emmy Award 1997 for best music, but could not win a single one.
Web links
- Quicksilver Highway in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Quicksilver Highway at Rotten Tomatoes (English)