He’s starting to lose it, his career is over, he’s been telling his shrink that his hands are conspiring against him, his wife is dead and he is looking like the prime suspect for her murder…life is just really REALLY starting to suck.Īnd it seems like the hands are trying to ignite some sort of revolution. He wakes just in time to see it happen but, not in time to save her. The hands (I say THE rather than HIS because it is clear by now that the doc has no control over the appendages) have attacked him while he’s driving and now, they strangle his wife while he is sleeping. He even seeks the advice of a shrink, telling him that he feels his hands have turned against him. These diabolical hands start communicating with each other and hatch a plan to remove themselves from the doctor’s anatomy.Īfter suffering a number of attacks upon his person by his hands (that just sounds funny to me) the dear and frightened doctor starts to come a bit unglued. Until one night when he discovers his hands have taken on life of their own, apart from his and seem to have their own agenda…and it doesn’t include being attached to HIS body. No risk is too great and no reward high enough to satisfy his need for wealth and extravagance.Īnd life, for the most part, is pretty normal (I know, it’s a relative term) for this surgeon. This is a doctor of questionable morality as it is clear he performs surgeries that every other reputable doctor would turn down. (Whoa! Talk about some morbid wicked stuff! And I bet that candle smells nasty as hell when it’s lit, eeeGeorge, an arrogant and greedy plastic surgeon whose living is made from his hands and his life is nothing but dollar signs. It is used as a protective device, having been dipped in the dead criminal’s body fat and made into a candle. Basically, it is a dried and pickled hand of a man who has been hanged. Then, they start discussing this “Hand of Glory” thing. Here we meet Charlie. A sneaky little pickpocket at a carnival that darts into a “Tent of Horrors” in order to avoid detection. While in this tent, he not only takes the time to look around and eyeball something labeled “The Hand of Glory”, he also meets Quicksilver, who yet again espouses himself as a collector and gives Charlie the schpeel. Just by what I have told you, do YOU think these two should be road-trippin’ it together?Īnyway, things between these two fellas go awry and the chattery teeth, belonging to Bill, intervene on his behalf in a very interesting way. Bryan Adams, our friendly roadside rambler, is an artist, an asshole and a smoker. Now, Bill is kind of an ass. He’s very tense, he’s got anger issues. He’s wound tighter than a snare drum. Apparently, he’s been having problems at home AND he’s a reformed smoker.

As Bill is leaving the hitchhiker, Bryan Adams (I know, it’s hysterical) asks for a ride. The salesman gives him enough money to complete his purchase. He also sees the hitchhiker he damn near killed trying to buy a pack of cigarettes but he’s short some change. They actually remind me of one of those huge models of the mouth that dentists used to have in their offices. This particular set are at least as tall as a can of soda and and probably a good six inches wide. These teeth are way bigger than the tiny fit-in-your-palm sized ones we are used to seeing. While he’s there he sees a set of novelty chatter teeth and decides to buy them for his son for his birthday. He decides he should pull over at a diner. The wind is so hardcore it’s hard to even see the road right in front of him, let alone the hitchhiker on the side of the road that he almost flattens. Bill is trying to get home in time for his son’s birthday that night. However, a serious windstorm is impeding his progress. Our first story is basically about a salesman, Bill Hogan. The Clive Barker story I’ve never heard of until this movie. I think I read it while sitting at an airport waiting for a flight. I vaguely remembering reading Chattery Teethyears ago when I travelled for work. The second is based off a story from Clive Barker called The Body Politic. The first is based off of a Stephen King story called Chattery Teeth. In his own words, “a collector of stories and tales, seeking to view and collect for humanity, the darkness of the country.” (What a philanthropist!) In this movie, we have a constant character in Quicksilver, played by Christopher Lloyd. While this film doesn’t quite qualify as an anthology (there’s only two stories) it still has that anthology quality that makes it feel like a couple cozy little campfire bedtime stories. This film had a nice Creepshow, Tales from the Darksidekind of feel to it.

Quicksilver highway