Good for one or two viewings, if you're into this type of horror.
Quicksilver highway tv#
All in all, a pretty good way to spend 90 minutes if it's on TV and you've got nothing spectacular to do, but not something you'll be watching over and over again. They also both give you a little something to think about, once the story is over this is also pushed a little further in the epilogue for both segments, by the storyteller, Lloyd, which obviously proves that the director/scriptwriter Mick Garris certainly understood both stories, as well as their underlying themes. The horror in both segments is fairly chilling and disturbing.
Quicksilver highway movie#
The special effects are about as good as they get for a TV movie budget. The direction is pretty good, especially for a TV movie. Both segments are about equally chilling and horrifying, though the first has more buildup and the second has more actual action, which shows the difference in the authors' styles. The characters are well-written, credible and easy to relate to, which, I guess, can be credited almost as much to the original authors(King and Barker) as the script writer and director(who, incidentally, is the same person). I especially enjoyed Lloyd, and his character, the storyteller, who is in both the prologue and the epilogue for both segments, and gives a further chill down the spine with his afterthoughts for both stories. The acting ranges from made-for-TV standard, and slightly better all four of the leads did a good job, as far as I'm concerned: Christopher Lloyd, Matt Frewer, Raphael Sbarge and Missy Crider. The plot for both stories is good(yes, even the King story, I have to admit, though I despise his works), and it's both involving and interesting, for both segments. I will say, however, that based on my limited knowledge of King's work(and my even more limited knowledge of Barker's) that I do believe that they did a pretty good job on bringing the stories to life in this movie. Yeah, you even see me briefly in there.I'll start this review by saying that I've read neither of the short stories that this movie is based on, neither Stephen King's Chattery Teeth, nor Cliver Barker's The Body Politic, so I can't comment on whether or not they're accurate conversions of the stories. Landis, and Barker - of course one of the stories was based Little bit left of center, but in a wonderful way.
He is kind of like the characters he plays - he's a He's very shy, very much keeps to himself. I was able to put in a couple of things -and put the order right - that had not been in the broadcast. When we aired it, they forced me toĬhange the order of the two stories. The good thing about the video version is that they let me recut it. Videotape release - I think they made like 10,000 copies. The Shining to keep the crew together and to shoot something in town and just have a really good time. I would love to see that show - we did that after Actually, Anchor Bay is trying to get the rights from Fox to put it on DVD. Mick Garris : " did another movie together called Quicksilver Highway.
Those are the exceptions that prove the rule."įangoria, No 175, August 1998. X-Files achieved it, Millenium has achieved it once in a while. There are a few exceptions - earlier seasons of The Problem with horror on network television. Had to wrestle hard to get what he got on screen. Television upon the violence of the material were obvious. "I thought Mick Garris did a good job, but the limitations of Transcript of radio appearance on Loveline with Dr Drew & Adam Carolla, I actually had one line in it, I actually got to appear in it which was kind of fun." "I've known Mick a long time and he did a great job but I was very remote from that. Hour is something like 48 minutes or something like that." I'd love to see him tackle something of mine that was six Of The Shining is testament of how well he can do with the long form ofįiction. I think Mick Garris is incredibly talented, his adaption
So you have this strange thing where you are watching a movieīut you really aren't because it doesn't have the satisfaction of a Story, I just don't think it sat particularly comfortably with my I not saying that I didn't like Stephen King's But, surrounding those stories are a bunch of I loved the Joeĭante story about the little kid that invents his own world in The
I loved The Crate in the first Creepshow. There are anthologies in which I love one or two There's not a single anthology movie out there that I can say, hand on That anthologies are very hard to pull off. "I have my own problems with the way that it was presented. There's a lot of television going on right now,īy , If that goesįorward as it's supposed to by the beginning of the year, Mick will Had adapted and I have 'The Body Politic' in there. It's based on two short stories, oneīy me and one by Stephen King. "Mick Garris is also directing something for 20th Century.
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