"Creep," "Shut up," "You little bastard," "Whore," "Piss for brains," "Bitch," "Go lay an egg," "Pissing me off," "Pissed me off" and "Nuts" (crazy). Rated R We see a pool of blood on the floor next to a person. [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". One character briefly smokes a joint. He killed his wife and two children because they were going to leave him. 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? But COLD CREEK MANOR is definitely not a horror film. Dale is helpful as the Tilsons adjust to their life. However, dont go out of your way to check in at Cold Creek Manor. 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. Jesse makes a comment about a parental moment being "Miller Time." HOW OTHERS RATED THIS MOVIE The Tilsons find themselves trapped in the house as Dale cuts the electricity. Accordingly, he turns from friendly and helpful to increasingly volatile and dangerous. Instead of finding a safer place, they buy Cold Creek Manor, an old beaten manor that they intend to turn into their dream home. We see an old drawing/picture of a man holding a knife to a child. Her husband, Cooper Tilson (Dennis Quaid), reminds her to reset the alarm clock to wake him up in time to get the kids to school and go to work. Miscellaneous people drink in a bar where the owner offers to buy Cooper a drink. I just hope its the kind of movie families will actually be able to watch. Eventually the previous owner Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff) shows up and eventually begins to terrorize the Tilsons lives. 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). Heavy The movie of course issues two small children to the Tilsons, so that their little screams can pipe up on cue, as when the beloved horse is found in the pool. Synopsis Leah Tilson (Sharon Stone) gets out of bed on a busy morning in New York City at 4:30am. 40. Cooper throws some large roof tiles at the intruder, with one striking him on the head, bloodying him. The other featurette, The Rules of the Game is where Mike Figgis proves he is completely unable to work in the Thriller genre. The previous owner, Dale Massie, convinces Cooper to hire him to help with repairs. [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". Heavy The DVD for Cold Creek Manor gets a little higher marks for having some content to it. Miscellaneous people have beer in a restaurant. Cooper accidentally punches his wife in the face. The Tilsons are a loving family that must work through normal conflicts, as well as unite to overcome extraordinary ones. 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. I remember whenCold Creek Manorcame out to the theatres, I was excited. At first it seems like everything is good. SEX/NUDITY Every part he has, Plummer makes it exciting, and whether he has a few scenes or the whole movie, I am captivated by his performance. Documentary filmmaker Cooper Tilson (Dennis Quaid) and his professionally. Jesse is nearly struck by a vehicle when he darts out into traffic. Ruby, who appears to be drunk, then joins him and orders several rounds of shots for the two of them. Leah shows some cleavage in her swimsuit. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Headscratchers/ColdCreekManor. The site's consensus states: "The plot of Cold Creek Manor is too predictable and contrived to generate suspense". "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. All Rights Reserved, He uses some profanity. We learn that a person killed his family sometime in the past and then see him kill his father. As the stakes rise, Cooper insists that the rest of the family return to the city for their own safety. Cooper drives home while a bit intoxicated shortly after drinking many shots of liquor. IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR The key player this time is Ruby (Juliette Lewis), Dale's battered girlfriend, whose sister is Sheriff Annie Ferguson (Dana Eskelson). Dale puts his hand between Ruby's thighs as she stands in the doorway of her camper. 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. Cold Creek Manor's prime reason for being seems to be a set piece involving poisonous snakes, directed by Figgis with a drunken gusto the rest of the film could use, and as a comeback vehicle for Stone, who tries hard at motherly warmth, but can't quite wash the Catherine Tramell out of her hair. Plot [ edit] Cold Creek Manor is meant to be a creepy thriller, which isnt that creepy, nor scary. It's presumed it was hit by a car, had its head bludgeoned (as happened to Dale's family) or had its throat slit. Dale Massie is a scruffy, yet muscular ex-con who claims he has no hard feelings about losing his house to these city slickers. Also, the cast is solid. Ruby wears a midriff-revealing top. He and other characters consume beer, vodka and whiskey to excess. When you think you'll get an explanation as to why Dale Massie is wanting the house back and kill the current owners, you don't. Mike Figgis directed, composed the music for, and produced . For those concerned with bright flashes of light on the screen, some instances of that occur in several scenes in the film. 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. A person pushes Leah down into a deep hole in the ground (she's okay). Cooper decapitates a snake. Question: 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. Dale comments on Leah saying that he could have "f*cked" her anytime he asked. Violence When he is not spending time with his family, Bill can be found at the bottom of a lake . If you are bored and have nothing else to do, why not. He smokes a joint, uses strong profanity, smokes, has sex with Ruby and turns homicidal. In their new home, which is beautiful but in need of work, the Tilsons find out that even though they are the new owners, the house has a story to it. If you are going to edit a lot, then make yourself a user and login. . GUNS/WEAPONS As they begin to fix the house up, they discover . We see an old drawing/picture of a man holding a knife to a child. [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". STEPHEN DORFF plays an ex-con who returns to the manor to work on it for the new owners, but then shows his true colors of wanting to get the house back for himself. Sleep with a cop. [Spoiler Warning] Early on, Leah is propositioned by a business colleague to spend the night together. 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. Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. After Jesse is almost killed in an automobile accident, Cooper decides it is time to get out of the city. Tense FamilyScenes Extreme Cooper then tries to rescue her (with a rope that she climbs), all while the assailant might be looming nearby. Cooper ends up hitting a deer during that. His girlfriend, Ruby (JULIETTE LEWIS), tells Cooper to watch his back, but her sister, Sheriff Ferguson (DANA ESKELSON), doesn't initially seem able or willing to help. A truck, presumably driven by Dale, chases after Cooper in his truck at night, through the woods and after both have been drinking. 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. A man smothers another man in a nursing home. 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. Dale smokes a number of times, while Ruby smokes once and various miscellaneous characters smoke in several scenes. Miscellaneous people have beer in a restaurant. To end this month of fear and fright, a look back at Touchstone Pictures Cold Creek Manor. The next shot she is talking to Sharon Stone and the windshield is dry. 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. Dale goes to Devils Throat and punctures Cooper's truck tires. If you want to see a good Thriller, avoid Cold Creek Manor and go find a copy of Pacific Heights. Read full review 40 That movie isnt perfect by a long shot, but it throttled back where Cold Creek Manor goes overboard. Despite being a bit predictable, Cold Creek Manor is full of thrills and. 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. {The following four categories are based on a Film Reel scale. 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