Quicksilver Highway

Quicksilver Highway is a 1997 horror anthology in which a mysterious storyteller named Aaron Quicksilver encounters travellers on a lonely desert highway and draws them into the macabre tales he spins. A newlywed couple whose car has broken down, and later a pickpocket, become his audience. In the first story, a driver who picks up a strange hitchhiker is menaced on the road, while a set of chattering teeth serves as a car ornament. In the second, a surgeon's own hands take on a life of their own, breaking away from his will. The film adapts short fiction by Stephen King and Clive Barker.

Mick Garris directed from his own screenplay, working from a story with producer Ron Mitchell, with a credited crew of 52. It followed his earlier television adaptation of The Stand and continued the run of horror productions that began with Fuzzbucket, Critters 2, Psycho IV: The Beginning and Sleepwalkers. Christopher Lloyd plays Aaron Quicksilver, alongside Matt Frewer, Raphael Sbarge, Missy Crider, Silas Weir Mitchell and Bill Nunn. Made for television on a budget of four million dollars, the film drew a critics' rating of 4.1 out of 10 from 51 reviews, while on TMDB it holds 5 out of 10 from 75 votes, a modest reception from a small audience on both sides.