'' is a 1997
Horror Film directed by
Mick Garris . It is based on
Clive Barker 's
Short Story ''
The Body Politic '' and
Stephen King 's short story ''
Chattery Teeth ''. The film was originally shown on
Television before being released on video.
The main story is centered on Aaron Quicksilver (played by
Christopher Lloyd ), a travelling showman who tells horror stories to the people he meets. He first runs into a
Pickpocket to whom he tells the story ''The Body Politic'', a story about a man whose hands rebel against him. He later runs into a newly married couple who are hitchhiking, to whom he tells the story ''Chattery Teeth'', about a man who is saved from a dangerous hitchhiker by a set of wind-up toy teeth.
