Quicksilver Highway

A fun way to knit together a random Stephen King tale with a random Clive Barker tale is to have Christopher Lloyd tell them to strangers. Lloyd, dressed up in the weirdest garb (sort of looking like an elderly goth chic), is a traveling 'collector' (of, pretty much, every strange item and or body part you can imagine) and he chances, first, upon a new pregnant bride waiting for her husband to return from alerting someone of their car trouble (poor guy almost makes it back) and, second, to small time crook Charlie, who makes his way through an amusement park picking pockets.

First story, based on Stephen King's Chattery Teeth.
I dimly remember the story from reading it a lifetime ago. Not the best of his short stories, but by no means the worst. It is about a traveling salesman and a set of mechanical chattery teeth with legs. They are said to be old enough to still be made of metal. Our traveling salesman Bill picks up a hitchhiker against his better judgment and we all know how that ends in the hands of Mr. King. Rather than give up his money and car to the guy calling himself Bryan Adams (in a very Keyser Soze way, he had a glance at Bill's CD collection before introducing himself), Bill speeds up until the car turns over and the two are trapped - Bill because he is still strapped into his seat and cannot get the seat belt off and Bryan because he is being attacked and killed and eventually pulled off into the desert by the set of teeth.

Second story, based on Clive Barker's The Body Politic.
This is a short story from the great Books of Blood collection. A surgeon's hands decide to free themselves of the tyranny of the body and start a revolution. This means that one will chop of the other and run off to recruit other hands to join the revolution. Now, this may be the most ridiculous premise, like, Idon'tknow, ever, but let me tell you that Matt Frewer's (Max! Headroom!) hands fighting the rest of his body is fascinating to watch. There are a lot of people running around holding their stumps with their left-over hand and a lot of Thing T. Things running around, following their 'Messiah', who is the hand still attached to the surgeon.

The stories are probably better suited for something like Tales from the Crypt. Wish that still existed.

5/10