The point was that she was having trouble separating reality from fantasy, but many have missed that point. For example, there was no "dead relative" talking to her, that was clearly one of her novel's characters and the other women were part of the "knitting circle" from her books. Certainly it's doubtful if they DID watch it that they actually paid it much attention. Some of the reviewers here giving it negative reviews are so incorrect in their comments I actually wonder if they even watched the movie. I really don't know what I think about this flick but I sort of enjoyed it. It seems to be a revenge thriller with an odd light- hearted "Murder She Wrote" sensibility, which honestly makes no sense but results in something quite bemusing & unexpected. I rarely feel this ambiguous about a movie to be honest. Fox required this change, which Garris disliked as he felt "The Body Politic" was more climactic than "Chattery Teeth.It's not great but it's not bad. The home media version of Quicksilver Highway switched the orders of the two stories from the television version, where "The Body Politic" comes first and "Chattery Teeth" last. Four days were spent shooting Hart's hand. The same trick for composing Hart's hand into the shots of The Addams Family films was used in Quicksilver Highway Hart wore a rubber prosthetic on the top of his hand and a green sleeve, and by using green screening and footage that matched the background of the shots of Hart's hand, his arm was removed. The more practical hand effects, such as George's left hand, were performed by Christopher Hart, whose work as a magician got him hand-only characters in projects such as three Addams Family films. Around 90% of the hands were digitally animated with LightWave 3D and composed in the shots with the Chyron program Liberty. ![]() Steve Johnson handled the chattery teeth effects, while Flash Film Works and Bill Mesa was responsible for the moving hands. Charles George, Matt Frewer had a tough time making the hand move as if it had a separate mind it took around three days for him to master the trick, and by the third day was having "hand nightmares" while resting between shoots. "The Body Politic" was filmed at the Santa Monica Pier, while "Chattery Teeth" was filmed in Lancaster, California. The moment Fox began developing the project, McTiernan left the director's seat on the project, leaving Garris to have to direct the screenplay himself. In the end, however, Garris loved the decision. He wrote a screenplay of Clive Barker's " The Body Politic" to serve as the film's second part after "Chattery Teeth." Casting director Lynn Kressel, who previously worked with Garris on The Stand (1994) and The Shining (1997), came up with the idea of Christopher Lloyd as Quicksilver while the network loved the decision, Garris was a bit skeptical, reasoning that he want a "little more seductive" actor to play the part. ![]() However, Fox wanted a two-hour television film. After writing a pilot script based on Stephen King's short story " Chattery Teeth," Garris pitched the series to Fox. Just after Brandon Tartikoff signed on as producer, Garris pitched the idea to staff at the American Broadcasting Company the heads of the network weren't interested as they didn't want any horror material in their broadcast schedule, but a couple of the network's executives like Greer Shephard got on board. Each episode would be set in a different location, with the same actors playing different characters. ![]() The series would follow a mysterious character who describes himself as "only a storyteller" but is actually much more than that. The agency suggested multiple ghost stories and urban legends to write about, but Garris had another idea.
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