We see various poisonous snakes in various places through the house, including in Leah's bed, in construction plastic along the ceiling, under Jesse's bed and under the fridge where Cooper reaches, unaware what's there. Some brief, sexually related dialogue is present, as is a brief and partially obscured sexual encounter (with movement and related sounds). The implication being that he hit the horse with the car. Dale puts his hand between Ruby's thighs as she stands in the doorway of her camper. Music(Inappropriate)
Those scenes and several others have varying levels of bloodiness, and may be unsettling, suspenseful or scary to some viewers, mostly younger ones and those with low tolerance levels for such material (others will have little or no such reaction to them).
We later see that saying on a sign in a bar. None. After Cooper asks what she did, she says she said yes, but that an emergency phone call prevented that from happening. An intruder breaks through a door to get onto the roof. BLOOD/GORE
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. I was hoping for a fright, and on this rewatching of the film, I found myself losing interest in the movie. During an altercation, Ruby pushes Leah backwards. Much of the thrills felt like padding to please the genre expectations demanded for this mainstream B-movie. Dale is a creep, and the fact that Copper is suckered into believing that he would be helpful makes me doubt his intelligence. [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. CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER plays Dale's cantankerous and mean father who's institutionalized in a nursing home. Sharon Stone is a great actress and does well with the part of Leah, but she isnt given much to stand out, and ends up playing a stereotypical role that keeps Stone from excelling. 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). 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. "Creep," "Shut up," "You little bastard," "Whore," "Piss for brains," "Bitch," "Go lay an egg," "Pissing me off," "Pissed me off" and "Nuts" (crazy). OUR WORD TO PARENTS:
The Tilson's stay at Cold Creek Manor and Dale is buried in the family cemetery on the Manor's grounds. Cold Creek Manor is meant to be a creepy thriller, which isnt that creepy, nor scary.
Dale punches Ruby and then punches several people who try to restrain him.
Dale puffs away in nearly every scene. Cooper isn't happy about that and leaves for a while. Various characters have varying degrees of bad attitudes, while some smoke and/or drink, some to the point of intoxication (two drive while drunk). 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. We briefly see Ruby kissing Dale while both lie on a bed, but he then sits up and nothing else happens. We see a pool of blood on the floor next to a person. New York, He only stops when the sheriff aims her gun at him. A family relocates from the city to a dilapidated house in the country that was once a grand estate. The husband was trying to get better cell reception, so he wasn't near the well when his wife was shoved in. Cooper shatters the skylight, sending Dale to his death. He is a psychopath who threatened to kill the Tilson family who moved to Dale's old home. Curious if this title is entertaining, any good, and/or has any artistic merit? I don't think someone could fly out from NYC and come help him within that timeframe. Dale has a bad attitude toward Cooper and his family and sets out to harass and get them out of his former house. [10], The film opened in 2,035 theaters in the United States on September 19, 2003, and grossed $8,190,574 in its opening weekend, ranking #5 at the box office, behind Underworld, Secondhand Lions, The Fighting Temptations and Once Upon a Time in Mexico. 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. Wanting to escape New York life for the countryside, Cooper (Quaid) and Leah Tilson (Stone), along with their two children, move into a dilapidated old mansion still filled with the possessions of the previous family. Cooper and Leah argue about their situation. He only stops when the sheriff aims her gun at him. Dennis Quaid as Cooper Tilson; Sharon Stone as Leah Tilson; Stephen Dorff as Dale Massie; Dana Eskelson as Sheriff Annie Ferguson; Juliette Lewis as Ruby; Christopher Plummer as Mr. Massie; Kristen Stewart as Kristen; Ryan Wilson as Jesse. Cooper races to look for him and finds him sitting on the street right in front of a stopped vehicle. 153 offers from $1.51. Taking a break from his multiple-perspective digicam experiments, helmer Mike Figgis displays at best a half-hearted interest in delivering the commercial genre goods, while Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone fish in vain to find any angles to play in their dimension-free characters". The couple who own the local diner extend a warm welcome to their new neighbors. The actors are talented, but they dont have much to work with. What? To learn the details of the manor's past, Cooper visit's Dale's aging, demented father who lives in a nearby nursing home. He would not have been in a rush to get the kids to school, not had his son almost hit by a car, not decided to move out of the city, and not forced me to watch the two hour debacle that follows called Cold Creek Manor.
When the girlfriend is at Dale Massey's grave at end of movie, it seems like it showed her angry face and then cut away to the credits. No, but everybody in the audience does. 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. Its almost like the script purposely makes the audience want to dislike Leah, so they muted Stone from being able to make her presence known in the film. [8], Steve Persall of the St. Petersburg Times graded the film D and thought "all this bad acting and run-of-the-thrill dialogue might be entertaining if something would just happen besides a silly snake scare and a wan truck chase. Either that or he was struck with some form of mental retardation, which is really unfair because Ive seen movies in the thriller genre before with someone suffering from mental retardation that did much better then Quaid did in this movie. Disrespectful/Bad Attitude
In rural Bellingham, they buy up the huge old Cold Creek Manor, which is going cheaply, and convert it into their dream house. Cooper keeps poking around, gets a sense he doesn't trust Dale. He dumped them down into "The Devil's Throat," which is a well in the woods.
Leah is shown in her underwear. She and Cooper lower a video camera into the well and find the rotting corpses of Dale's wife and children. The two then struggle and the intruder strikes Cooper and comments on the sound of a bone breaking. Dale comments on Leah saying that he could have "f*cked" her anytime he asked. When Juliet Luis is cleaning the windshield in the beginning of the movie, she moves to the passenger side and wets the window. 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. Frequent obscenities (plus tween nudity and a loud, barely obscured sex scene) earn Manor its R rating and make it impossible to recommend.
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An intruder breaks through a door to get onto the roof. Hes just looking to get back on his feet.
. But no. "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. Heavy
Ruby wears a midriff-revealing top. A person pushes Leah down into a deep hole in the ground (she's okay). At least 19 "f" words (3 used with "mother," 1 used sexually), 9 "s" words, 2 slang terms using male genitals ("c*ck" and "pecker"), 3 asses (all used with "hole"), 2 hells, 1 damn, 1 S.O.B., 10 uses of "Oh my God," 4 of "Oh God" and 1 use each of "For Christ's sakes," "G-damn," "God," "Jesus Christ," "My God," "Oh Jesus" and "Swear to God." Cooper drives home while a bit intoxicated shortly after drinking many shots of liquor. He grew up in Cold Creek Manor, with an abusive dad. It's presumed it was hit by a car, had its head bludgeoned (as happened to Dale's family) or had its throat slit. Leah and Cooper have a 13-year-old daughter named Kristen (Kristen Stewart) and a 12-year-old son named Jesse (Ryan Wilson). At Bay Area theaters.) I thought that was incredible and must mean that Cold Creek Manorwas on its way to box office success. Cooper agrees and we then see him and others drinking. Which is illogical once you start thinking about it. Dealing with bullies and/or the psychotic. Alcohol/Drugs
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Cooper accidentally punches his wife in the face. I remember whenCold Creek Manorcame out to the theatres, I was excited. Then read OUR TAKE of this film. In fact, I suggest you dont watch it with his commentary track since he inadvertantly points out a lot of the mistakes Ive pointed out above.
Contact me | Privacy policy | Join the mailing list | Links. Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. He then puts his hands on her butt and then under her short skirt, pulling down her panties in the process. Dale then sits next to Cooper and similarly orders several shots of liquor, resulting in Cooper being a bit inebriated.
A photo shows a bare-breasted young woman while an older woman is seen in her panties.
The couple team up in a climactic struggle to defend their home. Cooper ends up hitting a deer during that. "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. Parents, get practical information from a biblical worldview to help guide media decisions for your kids! None of the good deleted scenes are worse then anything else in the movie, but they arent much better either. Quaid plays the part well, and Stephen Dorff is great as the slimy Dale, but Dale Massie is a walking red flag to run away from. We see bloody water in the swimming pool and then see an underwater shot looking up from the bottom to reveal the silhouetted shape of a dead pony floating on the surface. Cooper (DENNIS QUAID) and Leah Tilson (SHARON STONE) have decided to give up the city life of New York for the countryside of Bellingham. Leah shows some cleavage in her swimsuit. 1996-2022 Screen It, Inc. DENNIS QUAID plays a documentary filmmaker who becomes somewhat obsessed with discovering the secret behind the manor and its former inhabitants. Dale's wife and children's remains are recovered and then entombed in the family graveyard at Cold Creek Manor, as are his own. 1 hr 58 min. Sheriff Ferguson is dedicated to keeping the peace, and becomes a refuge for the Tilsons when Dale turns the rest of the town against them. There is not one moment on screen that says to me that Dale is trustworthy. [Spoiler Warning] We eventually see physical evidence of this crime in the form of decomposed bodies that had been thrown into a deep well called The Devils Throat. We see some small photos of a teenager showing her bare breasts. There was a problem. 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. Rated R 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". DENNIS QUAID plays a documentary filmmaker who becomes somewhat obsessed with discovering the secret behind the manor and its former inhabitants. She uses some profanity and states that she agreed to sleep with her boss to get a promotion (but that never happened). [1], Buena Vista Home Entertainment released the film on Region 1 DVD on March 2, 2004. The Tilsons are a loving family that must work through normal conflicts, as well as unite to overcome extraordinary ones. 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. 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. He added, "Of course preposterous things happen in all thrillers, but there must be at least a gesture in the direction of plausibility, or we lose patience". I wasnt scared, nor did I even know what the plot of the film was. Belonging to the same genre as Pacific Heights, Fatal Attraction, Cape Fear and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, this methodical, occasionally eerie thriller taps into our innate desire to protect family and home from a psychotic outsider with an axe (in this case, killing hammer) to grind.
An extreme amount of suspenseful and ominous music plays in the film. Next week, a look back at Oliver Stones Nixon. Miscellaneous people drink beer.
We see the image of a somewhat decomposed and mummified face on a video playback. That may have been the intention if the film had been successful, but as it lost money, any chance of a sequel became moot. Dale punches Ruby and then punches several people who try to restrain him.
Dale shows up at the trailer of his trashy girlfriend, Ruby, and begins undressing her.
Leah's boss offers to give her a promotion if she spends the night with him while on a business trip. We see bloody water in the swimming pool and then see an underwater shot looking up from the bottom to reveal the silhouetted shape of a dead pony floating on the surface. Cooper ends up hitting a deer during that. Phrases: "Don't f*ck with him," "He'll rip your f*cking head off," "Shut the f*ck up," "Back the f*ck away," "Get the f*ck out of here," "You f*ck," "Oh sh*t," "You'll sh*t blood," "You little sh*thead," "You piece of sh*t," "You're full of sh*t," "You scared the sh*t out of me," "Corrupt spawn of your whoring mother," "Screwed up," "Where the hell /is he going/are you going to do about it?" Violence
Dale says that he hasn't seen his kids since his wife left with them some time ago. As written by Richard Jefferies, the film is more or less a variation of his script for the 1992 black comedy . 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. Cold Creek Manor is a psychological thriller that came out in 2003. The daughter and wife were far too distraught to consider that but the cop should have realized that immediately. We see an old drawing/picture of a man holding a knife to a child. Leah's boss offers to give her a promotion if she spends the night with him while on a business trip. Thank you for signing up to CinemaBlend. Cold Creek Manor is a 2003 thriller film directed by Mike Figgis.
He uses some profanity. He was protrayed by Stephen Dorff, who also portrayed Deacon Frost in Blade . The movie received negative reviews from critics.
Maybe the family thought the horse got loose, or was out in a field overnight? One day the former owner shows up and makes himself at home. I was especially impressed with relative newcomer Dana Eskelson as the no-nonsense, tough-as-nails sheriff who gives the Tilsons someone to turn to amidst chaos.
To end this month of fear and fright, a look back at Touchstone Pictures Cold Creek Manor. Dale is helpful as the Tilsons adjust to their life. Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback. FRIGHTENING SCENES
Meanwhile, the more Cooper digs into the history of Cold Creek Manor, the more frightened he becomes for his familys safety. Plot After their young son is nearly run over in the street, Cooper and Leah Tilson decide to give up high-flying careers in New York City and move to the countryside. This is Thesecret1070. DANA ESKELSON plays Ruby's sister, the local sheriff who drags her feet in taking action against Dale and uses some strong profanity. We see the point of view of someone approaching Cooper. 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. Dale slaps Ruby violently, then punches men who come to her aid before Sheriff Ferguson draws her pistol. Moderate
He then puts his hands on her butt and then under her short skirt, pulling down her panties in the process. 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). The implication being that he hit the horse with the car. When we finally saw the film a week later, I left the theatre disappointed. .
Halloween is soon upon us, and this is the time for a scary movie.
Synopsis Leah Tilson (Sharon Stone) gets out of bed on a busy morning in New York City at 4:30am. At least 19 "f" words (3 used with "mother," 1 used sexually), 9 "s" words, 2 slang terms using male genitals ("c*ck" and "pecker"), 3 asses (all used with "hole"), 2 hells, 1 damn, 1 S.O.B., 10 uses of "Oh my God," 4 of "Oh God" and 1 use each of "For Christ's sakes," "G-damn," "God," "Jesus Christ," "My God," "Oh Jesus" and "Swear to God.". Moderate
Kristen is mad at her dad when she thinks he accidentally killed her pony. If you want to say that, why didnt you say it in the movie? Cooper Tilson, his wife Leah and their two children, Kristen and Jesse, move from New York to the country after purchasing a mansion. A sudden sound might startle some viewers. We then see a shot of them (through a window with blinds that obscure much of what we're seeing) having sex, with movement and related sounds. 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. It's the sort of movie that makes dumb guys like me feel smart. Scenes listed under "Violence" might also be unsettling, suspenseful or scary to some viewers, mostly younger ones and those with low tolerance levels for such material (others will have little or no such reaction to them). Instead of finding a safer place, they buy Cold Creek Manor, an old beaten manor that they intend to turn into their dream home. His wife, Leah, is a business executive who rises at 4:30 to hop a plane to her next big meeting. Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. 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.
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Cooper then tries to rescue her (with a rope that she climbs), all while the assailant might be looming nearby. The former owner, Dale, offers to help them fix the place up, but resents Cooper's interest in his family history. We see various poisonous snakes in various places through the house, including in Leah's bed, in construction plastic along the ceiling, under Jesse's bed and under the fridge where Cooper reaches, unaware what's there. Plot points are so easily predictable it isnt funny: Coopers daughter Kristin (played by Kristin Stewart) gets a horse, so something must happen to that horse and it does. Figgis talking during a scene transition says Lets say this is a month later. He uses some profanity, drinks and drives, and becomes jealous of his wife. As they settle in, Cooper starts to research the previous owners, and eventually meets Dale, one of the former owners of their house. Produced by Touchstone Pictures / Red Mullet / Cold Creek Manor Productions. The movie is an anthology of cliches, not neglecting both the Talking Killer, who talks when he should be at work, and the reliable climax where both the villain and his victims go to a great deal of inconvenience to climb to a high place so that one of them can fall off.
What I saw from the trailer was not what I got when I saw the movie. We see several tools on a wall, and Dale says that they're killing hammers with spikes in them, used to kill farm animals (some viewers might not like the thought of that). [5], Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated the film 1 stars and called it "an anthology of cliches" and "a thriller that thrills us only if we abandon all common sense". All Rights Reserved,
In one scene, a persons bludgeoned body twitches in a pool of blood (viewers are spared the homicidal act itself). For those concerned with bright flashes of light on the screen, some instances of that occur in several scenes in the film. Cooper begins to wonder just what Dale is trying to hide, and makes a blood-chilling discovery on the property. He talks about the rules of the genre, pacing, music, editing, etc. Leah Tilson (Sharon Stone) is a working mom who we're told spends about 90% of the time working, and 10% of the time being a mom. The Tilsons continue to live in Cold Creek Manor. We later see that saying on a sign in a bar. Written by Richard Jefferies. We see a rear view of Leah in her small panties as she gets out of bed. Two featurettes are included. Ruby tells her sister, the sheriff, that she fell (instead of admitting that Dale punched her). A few of them might have helped the movie a little more, such as in transitioning two confusing scenes and letting Dennis Quaids character get the upper hand for a moment. However, don't go out of your way to check in . ImitativeBehavior
We see several shots of Dale, sweaty and shirtless with his jeans riding down to expose the top of his underwear. No one in this movie has a shred of common sense. The two then struggle and the intruder strikes Cooper and comments on the sound of a bone breaking. So, how exactly did the horse die? The intruder then tries to hit Cooper who blocks those attacks with a ladder.
We see a Jeep that's been set on fire. VIOLENCE
After Cooper asks what she did, she says she said yes, but that an emergency phone call prevented that from happening. We then see a shot of them (through a window with blinds that obscure much of what we're seeing) having sex, with movement and related sounds. After Cooper asks what she did, she says she said yes, but that an emergency phone call prevented that from happening. He and other characters consume beer, vodka and whiskey to excess. [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". In Cold Creek Manor, a family tired of the noise, traffic and crime of the city decides to move to the country. Were they possibly thinking of doing maybe a revenge sequel? He also calls a nurse, "You little bitch.". After Jesse is almost killed in an automobile accident, Cooper decides it is time to get out of the city. (Note: The "Our Take" review of this title examines the film's artistic merits and does not take into account any of the possibly objectionable material listed below). Miscellaneous people have beer in a restaurant.
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). Think of the trouble it would be for one man, working alone, to kill a horse and dump it into a swimming pool.
Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. Eskelsons rsum may not be as extensive as those of her co-stars, but thats sure to change. 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. All Rights Reserved,
Dale goes after Cooper and Leah, and Cooper kills Dale by shattering the skylight on the roof of the house and Dale falls to his death. He uses some profanity, drinks and drives, and becomes jealous of his wife.
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