Then read OUR TAKE of this film. Profanity consists of at least 19 "f" words, while other expletives and colorful phrases are used. The screenplay by Richard Jefferies tells the story of a family terrorized by the former owner of the rural estate they bought in foreclosure. Dale Massie is a scruffy, yet muscular ex-con who claims he has no hard feelings about losing his house to these city slickers. The Tilsons find themselves trapped in the house as Dale cuts the electricity. That may have been the intention if the film had been successful, but as it lost money, any chance of a sequel became moot. If you are going to edit a lot, then make yourself a user and login. Dale goes to Devils Throat and punctures Cooper's truck tires. Especially the whole 'getting a dead horse into the pool while drunk' part. WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: R Cooper throws some large roof tiles at the intruder, with one striking him on the head, bloodying him. Yeah, you might not get a good look at Stephen Dorffs cut frame, but your brain will thank you for it in the long run. The film stars Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, Stephen Dorff and Juliette Lewis.. As haunted-house . Hes just looking to get back on his feet. Jesse is nearly struck by a vehicle when he darts out into traffic. If you want to see a good Thriller, avoid Cold Creek Manor and go find a copy of Pacific Heights. The scene where she claims she wasn't hit, she only fell, is the most perfunctory demonstration possible of the battered woman in denial. It also helped make this film seem too long, as at least twenty minutes should have been cut in the editing room. Cold Creek Manor (2003) Grace (Sharon Stone) and Cooper (Dennis Quaid) decide that they need to slow their lives down a bit and move their family into a big estate in the country. The rat race in general. Cooper is in a position to disable his rival without killing him during the films climax, but with Leahs blessing, he finishes the guy off, vigilante style. He's just looking to get back on his feet. We see a rear view of Leah in her small panties as she gets out of bed. Cold Creek Manor gets a 1 Reelrating. An extreme amount of suspenseful and ominous music plays in the film. The two are overheard having raucous sex, a loveless act barely obscured by a set of blinds. BLOOD/GORE Some tense family material and imitative behavior is also present. He also calls a nurse, "You little bitch.". Starring: Dennis Quaid, Christopher Plummer, Sharon Stone, Kristen Stewart, Juliette Lewis, Stephen Dorff, Dana Eskelson, Ryan Wilson. This only makes things worse, though the Tilsons cant provide the local sheriff with enough hard evidence to prove anything. Helmer Mike Figgis displays at best a half-hearted interest in delivering the commercial genre goods, while . Cooper throws some large roof tiles at the intruder, with one striking him on the head, bloodying him. Two people clothesline a third with a rope that they then use to tie him down to a skylight. Have you ever wondered what happened in your house before you lived there? This is the question posed by the marketing for Cold Creek Manor, a poor attempt at a heart-pounding thriller that instead has you wondering Where can this film go wrong next? Its all Sharon Stones fault. Meanwhile, the more Cooper digs into the history of Cold Creek Manor, the more frightened he becomes for his familys safety. Two people clothesline a third with a rope that they then use to tie him down to a skylight. An intruder breaks through a door to get onto the roof. He talks about Dales cigarettes, that they had intended him to be European, rolling his own cigarettes, but that preview audiences mistook his hand rolled cigs for joints (as did I) so he clarifies that they are tobacco, just so everybody knows that. There is not one moment on screen that says to me that Dale is trustworthy. Musical stingers hit moments where nothing happens on screen, presumably to build tension, but instead creating an almost laughable effect. As they begin renovations, they discover their new home harbors a secret and may not be completely free of its former inhabitant. He then puts his hands on her butt and then under her short skirt, pulling down her panties in the process. Cold Creek Manor gets a 1 Reel rating. If you are bored and have nothing else to do, why not. Sharon Stone is awesome. The site's consensus states: "The plot of Cold Creek Manor is too predictable and contrived to generate suspense". Yet in "Cold Creek Manor," a rather plain suspense film, I don't think there is even one thing that happens that I didn't foresee. The locals act as a kind of Greek chorus, living permanently at the diner and prepared on a moment's notice to issue portentous warnings or gratuitous insults. She smokes a lot, always an ominous sign, and is ambiguous about Dale -- she loves the lug, but gee, does he always have to be pounding on her? Rewatching this film has only confirmed what I have felt since that first viewing at the theatre. In "Under the Tuscan Sun," another new movie, Diane Lane is able to find some cheerful Polish workers to rehab her Tuscan villa, but the Tilsons have the extraordinarily bad judgment to hire the former owner of the house, Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff), an ex-con with a missing family. Should you still be concerned about the film's appropriateness for yourself or anyone else in your home, you may want to look more closely at our detailed listings for more specific information regarding the film's content. They get back to the house where Dale has torched Leah's car. Cooper agrees and we then see him and others drinking. Eventually the previous owner Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff). If she had only reset her alarm, then Dennis Quaid would have woken up on time. VIOLENCE For Violence, Language and Some Sexuality, The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic, The Mandalorian Tries to Find Its Place in Third Season, The Unloved, Part 111: Devil in a Blue Dress, Female Filmmakers in Focus: Cauleen Smith on Drylongso, True Lies Fails to Capture the Charm of the James Cameron Original. Synopsis. Accordingly, he turns from friendly and helpful to increasingly volatile and dangerous. And both Cooper and Leah are tinged with the suggestion of adultery, because in American movies, as we all know, sexual misconduct leads to bad real estate choices. Old Mr. Massie prattles on about his late wifes promiscuity and calls Dale the corrupt spawn of your whoring mother. Dale says his own wife had an active social life as well. He has Polaroids of his topless, pubescent stepdaughter (glimpsed several times by moviegoers). As Cooper Tilson attempts to protect his family from Massies psychotic ways, he also starts to piece together the mystery of Cold Creek Manors past well, actually its Dale Massies past, but Dale Massie isnt half as interesting a title as Cold Creek Manor. SHARON STONE plays his wife, an executive who wants to get their family out of harm's way when things get too precarious. Leah's boss offers to give her a promotion if she spends the night with him while on a business trip. Ruby tells her sister, the sheriff, that she fell (instead of admitting that Dale punched her). Kristen finds a piece of wood with the word "evil" on it and is then surprised by her brother. At first it seems like everything is good. Cold Creek Manor (2003) Directed by Mike Figgis Stephen Dorff [Dale Massie] Christopher Plummer [Mr. Massie] Simon Reynolds [Ray Pinski] Paula Brancati [Stephanie Pinski] Kathleen Duborg [Ellen Pinski] Dana Eskelson [Sheriff Annie Ferguson] . Despite being a bit predictable, Cold Creek Manor is full of thrills and. Dale then sits next to Cooper and similarly orders several shots of liquor, resulting in Cooper being a bit inebriated. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Headscratchers/ColdCreekManor. None. So well stick with him remaining drunk, which might not have been a bad idea in order to make it through the filming. 1 Reel-Bored and Killing Time, 2 Reels-When You Have Some Time, 3 Reels-Make Some Time, 4 Reels-Big Screen Event}. There, they've purchased a dilapidated estate known as Cold Creek Manor and move in with their teenager daughter, Kristen (KRISTEN STEWART), and her younger brother, Jesse (RYAN WILSON). Were they possibly thinking of doing maybe a revenge sequel? (2003) (Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone) (R) There was a problem. We assume she rejected the proposal, but learn later that she had actually considered it until circumstances got in the way. One then hits the third several times with a pick-like device, eventually causing the skylight to break and the third person to fall through it, another skylight and then hard to the floor below (where he's presumably dead). Dale Massie is the killer. Later that night as a storm approaches, Leah returns to the house alone, having been informed by the children the location of a deep well on the property, called the Devil's Throat. Directed by Mike Figgis. Movie Info When filmmaker Cooper Tilson (Dennis Quaid) and his wife, Leah (Sharon Stone), tire of life in New York City, they buy a decrepit house in rural Cold Creek, N.Y., and move their. Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. Dale's father says that Dale is the "corrupt spawn of your whoring mother" and then says that Dale's kids probably weren't even his, that he couldn't even make babies. We see an old drawing/picture of a man holding a knife to a child. A sudden sound might startle some viewers. Music(Scary/Tense) Jesse makes a comment about a parental moment being "Miller Time." Please refresh the page and try again. [2] On Metacritic which assigns a weighted mean score the film has a score of 37 out of 100 based on 31 critics, indicating "generally negative reviews". Cooper ends up hitting a deer during that. Veronica Guerin (Special Edition) Cate Blanchett. Instead of following some sort of plot from point A to B to C to D, for reasons unknown we jump from A to C leaving B out of the film and leaving the audience clueless as to what some characters are talking about, or why character relationships have changed. RYAN WILSON plays her younger brother who somewhat becomes obsessed with a dark poem written by the boy who lived in the house before him. Kill.Switch (2003) Resident Evil 5 (2009) Grand Theft Auto III (2001) In one scene, a persons bludgeoned body twitches in a pool of blood (viewers are spared the homicidal act itself). The two get into a fight at a bar, Dale and Cooper both drive away, but Dale chases him, and Cooper hits a deer in the process; Dale kills the daughter's pony, kills his dad in the nursing home (he mentions killing his family). Cooper has a little bit of a bloody lip. Should you still be concerned about the film's appropriateness for yourself or anyone else in your home, you may want to look more closely at our detailed listings for more specific information regarding the film's content. Sleep with a cop. [Spoiler Warning] Early on, Leah is propositioned by a business colleague to spend the night together. If you want to say that, why didnt you say it in the movie? He put snakes in the tilson's house, he would stalk the tilson family by trying to harm them and bother them he killed Kristen Tilson's horse that her friend gave her as a present when the Tilson Family wasn't presentand then he threw the dead horse into the Tilson's Family'spool. Leah hears her kids screaming near the pool and races there to discover a snake in it (that Dale has captured and it isn't poisonous). asks a helpful local. 1 hr 58 min. There, they've purchased a dilapidated estate known as Cold Creek Manor and move in with their teenager daughter, Kristen (KRISTEN STEWART), and her younger brother, Jesse (RYAN WILSON). Moderate Quaid starred in a similar film in 2019 called. 153 offers from $1.51. Moving into a new home. He only stops when the sheriff aims her gun at him. Figgis talking during a scene transition says Lets say this is a month later. Which is illogical once you start thinking about it. We see the point of view of someone approaching Cooper. Heavy This is Thesecret1070. The next shot she is talking to Sharon Stone and the windshield is dry. That movie isnt perfect by a long shot, but it throttled back where Cold Creek Manor goes overboard. When Leah gets thrown into a deep hole, Cooper ignores his own safety and is single-minded about pulling her out. [9], Todd McCarthy of Variety called the film "a woefully predictable imperiled-yuppie-family-under-siege suspenser that hardly seems worth the attention of its relatively high-profile participants. Cooper hears someone in his house, thinks he sees someone approaching on the other side of some hanging plastic, and punches that person (but it turns out to be Leah). A Blu-ray edition was released September 4, 2012.[11]. We see a pool of blood on the floor next to a person. IIRC the family believes it's the father precisely because his headlights/front of the car is smashed. A truck, presumably driven by Dale, chases after Cooper in his truck at night, through the woods and after both have been drinking. In classic Hollywood ending style the Tilson's defeated him and eventually killed him but like I said the final battle scene was too quick and short for me. Cold Creek Manor is a 2003 American thriller film directed by Mike Figgis, and starring Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, Stephen Dorff, Juliette Lewis, Kristen Stewart and Christopher Plummer. I only wish this film had chosen a course similar to The River Wild, the PG-13 white-water rafting thriller that found Meryl Streep and David Strathairn desperately trying to save their family from a vicious Kevin Bacon. Cooper then tries to rescue her (with a rope that she climbs), all while the assailant might be looming nearby. Dealing with bullies and/or the psychotic. Design and text 1996 - 2023 Jon Sandys. Cooper and his family sneak onto and then into the estate before they put an offer on it (meaning they're trespassing). As Cooper sorts through the mess in the house, he comes across many old documents and photographs, and decides to record the history of the building on film. Were they possibly thinking of doing maybe a revenge sequel? 5.0 (23,095) 37. All Rights Reserved, He smokes a joint, uses strong profanity, smokes, has sex with Ruby and turns homicidal. One character briefly smokes a joint. Miscellaneous people drink in a bar where the owner offers to buy Cooper a drink. "Do you know what you're getting yourselves into?" (R. 119 minutes. If you were able to make it through the film once, you most likely will have no interest in watching it again with the director talking. Bad writing lets the characters make bad decisions, hiring the former house owner (who broke in to have a look around) to fix the pool instead of asking him to leave or calling police, or worse, characters dont pass on what easily seems to be crucial information to other characters. It's presumed it was hit by a car, had its head bludgeoned (as happened to Dale's family) or had its throat slit. KRISTEN STEWART plays the Tilsons' moody teenage daughter who doesn't like Dale from the get-go. He uses some profanity. But no. The lights go out in the house and Cooper and Leah hear someone smash a window and then break things in the house (we see that as it occurs). TOPICS TO TALK ABOUT To learn the details of the manor's past, Cooper visit's Dale's aging, demented father who lives in a nearby nursing home. We see several shots of Dale, sweaty and shirtless with his jeans riding down to expose the top of his underwear. Which is illogical once you start thinking about it. Turning it into their dream house soon becomes a living nightmare when the previous owner (Dorff) shows up, and a series of terrifying incidents lead them on a spine-tingling search for clues to the estate's dark and lurid past Leah Tilson (Sharon Stone) gets out of bed on a busy morning in New York City at 4:30am. Or what? Dale shows up at the trailer of his trashy girlfriend, Ruby, and begins undressing her. Leah shows some cleavage in her swimsuit. It looks like the previous occupants bugged out in a big hurry, too, as they left everything behind, including personal. The previous owner, Dale Massie, convinces Cooper to hire him to help with repairs. Instead the section turns out to be Figgis talking about having to film the movie as a movie, and the documentary parts as a documentary, and the home video parts as a home video. We later see that saying on a sign in a bar. "Cold Creek Manor," starring Sharon Stone and Dennis Quaid, is true to all the worn-out clichs as it depicts the tale of a family being terrorized by a madman. Dale smokes a number of times, while Ruby smokes once and various miscellaneous characters smoke in several scenes. Rooms look beaten up, filled with the relics of the previous family, and then they are clean and neat and redone, while other rooms still have walls that barely hold the room together. He said the film "belongs to the Cape Fear tradition of thrillers in which the mettle of a civilized family man is tested in a life-or-death struggle with crude macho evil". Biography He grew up in Cold Creek Manor, with an abusive dad. They then meet the former owner, Dale Massie (STEPHEN DORFF), who states he just got out of prison and would like to work for them restoring the house back to its once prominent state. You will receive a verification email shortly. Cooper isn't happy about that and leaves for a while. Which is illogical once you start thinking about it. Smoking We see some small photos of a teenager showing her bare breasts. Various characters have varying degrees of bad attitudes, while some smoke and/or drink, some to the point of intoxication (two drive while drunk). Cold Creek Manor. He only stops when the sheriff aims her gun at him. the only things haunting this movie are cliches". Once they realize that, they have several close calls with those snakes and more, including one that strikes out at Cooper and another that falls on his shoulder. Extreme "Cold Creek Manor" is another one of those movies where a demented fiend devotes an extraordinary amount of energy to setting up scenes for the camera. I thought that was incredible and must mean that Cold Creek Manorwas on its way to box office success. Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. People describe a brutal method of killing sheep by using modified tools to inflict a sharp blow to the base of the skull that penetrates the brain. Written by Richard Jefferies. She uses some profanity and states that she agreed to sleep with her boss to get a promotion (but that never happened). Once Dale enters the pictureand notices Cooper working on a documentary about the history of his new homestrange things start to happen. He became mentally unstable due to his fathers abuse, and trauma he was surrounded with as a child, and into adulthood, as his father was still around. But COLD CREEK MANOR is definitely not a horror film. As they begin to make it their own, a series of events begin to occur that makes them believe that the former inhabitants are not yet gone. It just doesnt make sense. Dale punches Ruby and then punches several people who try to restrain him. Thank you for signing up to CinemaBlend. He grew up in Cold Creek Manor, with an abusive dad. Cooper then tries to rescue her (with a rope that she climbs), all while the assailant might be looming nearby. With the locals becoming suspicious of them and Dale becoming increasingly unstable, Cooper and his family try to uncover the mystery regarding him and his former home before it's too late. Those scare scenes mostly took away from the film's rhythm and its more penetrating family drama story. Once they realize that, they have several close calls with those snakes and more, including one that strikes out at Cooper and another that falls on his shoulder. Moderate Halloween is soon upon us, and this is the time for a scary movie. To top it off, Dennis Quaids character gets drunk about halfway through the movie and Quaid himself seems to stay that way through the rest of the film. An intruder breaks through a door to get onto the roof. Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site. Cold Creek Manor is a 2003 American thriller film directed by Mike Figgis, and starring Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, Stephen Dorff, Juliette Lewis, Kristen Stewart and Christopher Plummer. A series of unusual incidents start to occur; Cooper is pursued by an unknown car, multiple venomous snakes are found in the property, and Kristen's horse is mysteriously killed, leading Cooper to suspect Dale. We are introduced to Cooper, his wife Leah and their kids Jesse and Kristen in the hectic life of living in NYC. Hi. His father expected his son to have had the Manor in his possesion, but when he looses the house to the government due to short payments, it becomes abandoned and the Tilson family moves in. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Diffuser Disney100, Bill Gowsell has loved all things Disney since his first family trip to Walt Disney World in 1984. The man's disjointed comments lead Cooper to believe Dale murdered his wife and children who have been missing for several years; Dale claims his wife fled with the children when he was imprisoned. The husband was trying to get better cell reception, so he wasn't near the well when his wife was shoved in. The key player this time is Ruby (Juliette Lewis), Dale's battered girlfriend, whose sister is Sheriff Annie Ferguson (Dana Eskelson). Dale, recently released from prison, initially appears to be a good, kind worker. In the end it is revealed that Dale Massie killed his family and buried them down the "Devil's Throat" and he was coming back to claim his property. The former owner, Dale, offers to help them fix the place up, but resents Cooper's interest in his family history. As they begin to fix the house up, they discover . Cooper hears someone in his house, thinks he sees someone approaching on the other side of some hanging plastic, and punches that person (but it turns out to be Leah). Moderate Dale puts his hand between Ruby's thighs as she stands in the doorway of her camper. Cooper drives home while a bit intoxicated shortly after drinking many shots of liquor. Kristen is mad at her dad when she thinks he accidentally killed her pony. He uses some profanity. None A babbling old man threatens to whip his son bloody. Dale says that he hasn't seen his kids since his wife left with them some time ago. Some tense family material and imitative behavior is also present. Continuity mistake: When Juliet Luis is cleaning the windshield in the beginning of the movie, she moves to the passenger side and wets the window. Bonus features include commentary with director Mike Figgis; deleted scenes and an alternate ending; Rules of the Game, in which Figgis discusses the components of a psychological thriller; and Cooper's Documentary, in which he discusses the process of making the film within the film. I wasnt scared, nor did I even know what the plot of the film was. {The following four categories are based on a Film Reel scale. We see a photo of a boy holding a rifle. Cooper Tilson, his wife Leah and their two children, Kristen and Jesse, move from New York to the country after purchasing a mansion. gtag('js', new Date()); Theres an obscene gesture. IIRC the family believes it's the father precisely because his headlights/front of the car is smashed. Dale's father refers to Dale's mother as a "whore." [3] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "C" on a scale of A+ to F.[4], Stephen Holden of The New York Times observed, "A serious filmmaker like Mike Figgis can be forgiven, I suppose, for slumming, when he's got a cast as stellar as the one that infuses the scream-by-numbers thriller Cold Creek Manor with more psychological credibility than its screenplay merits". The implication being that he hit the horse with the car. Since he began writing for Laughing Place in 2014, Bill has specialized in covering the Rick Riordan literary universe, a retrospective of the Touchstone Pictures movie library, and a variety of other Disney related topics. He was trying to get better reception on his walkie talkie to alert the sheriff, and he didn't know the killer was in the area. An intruder breaks through a door to get onto the roof. Cinemablend is part of Future US Inc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Several people smoke cigarettes. Dale then sits next to Cooper and similarly orders several shots of liquor, resulting in Cooper being a bit inebriated. When the movie was released, it opened in the fifth spot with a weekend take of just over $8 million dollars. The script grafts from every possible thriller most of which had pilfered their predecessors and loads on implausibilities until we wonder why the actors play it seriously". Cold Creek Manor is a 2003 American thriller film directed by Mike Figgis, and starring Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, Stephen Dorff, Juliette Lewis, Kristen Stewart and Christopher Plummer. Cold Creek Manor is meant to be a creepy thriller, which isnt that creepy, nor scary. NY 10036. In all movies involving city people who move to the country, there is an unwritten rule that everybody down at the diner knows all about the history of the new property and the secrets of its former owners. 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