Musical stingers hit moments where nothing happens on screen, presumably to build tension, but instead creating an almost laughable effect. PLOT: If you are bored and have nothing else to do, why not. By entering this site you acknowledge to having read and agreed to the above conditions. Cooper (DENNIS QUAID) and Leah Tilson (SHARON STONE) have decided to give up the city life of New York for the countryside of Bellingham. The movie starts out in the city with the stereotypical hustle and bustle lifestyle that drives everyone into the country. Some tense family material and imitative behavior is also present. Design and text 1996 - 2023 Jon Sandys. 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 were able to make it through the film once, you most likely will have no interest in watching it again with the director talking. MUSIC (SCARY/TENSE) When the movie was released, it opened in the fifth spot with a weekend take of just over $8 million dollars. CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER plays Dale's cantankerous and mean father who's institutionalized in a nursing home. Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab). . 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. 1996-2022 Screen It, Inc. Dale has a tattoo on his shoulder. DVD. WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT? Moving into a new home. 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. He uses some profanity. It looks like the previous occupants bugged out in a big hurry, too, as they left everything behind, including personal. They find a sprawling run down large old house in the boonies of a small town. CAST, CREW, & TECHNICAL INFO "Creep," "Shut up," "You little bastard," "Whore," "Piss for brains," "Bitch," "Go lay an egg," "Pissing me off," "Pissed me off" and "Nuts" (crazy). One with Quaid and the other with Dorff. 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. Think of the trouble it would be for one man, working alone, to kill a horse and dump it into a swimming pool. But answer me this. Dale punches Ruby and then punches several people who try to restrain him. 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. A truck, presumably driven by Dale, chases after Cooper in his truck at night, through the woods and after both have been drinking. When we finally saw the film a week later, I left the theatre disappointed. Minor The screenplay by Richard Jefferies tells the story of a family terrorized by the former owner of the rural estate they bought . Eventually the previous owner Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff). Leah's boss offers to give her a promotion if she spends the night with him while on a business trip. VIOLENCE Cooper ends up hitting a deer during that. We see some small photos of a teenager showing her bare breasts. Sheriff Annie Ferguson, Ruby's sister, is initially skeptical about Cooper's accusation but later slowly starts to believe he may be correct. Blood/Gore Leah shows some cleavage in her swimsuit. IIRC the family believes it's the father precisely because his headlights/front of the car is smashed. BLOOD/GORE Which is illogical once you start thinking about it. Jesse makes a comment about a parental moment being "Miller Time." Also, what was exactly the train of thought for the family to believe the father killed the horse? You can unsubscribe at any time. Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. An intruder breaks through a door to get onto the roof. Dale comments on Leah saying that he could have "f*cked" her anytime he asked. Topics ToTalk About 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. A truck, presumably driven by Dale, chases after Cooper in his truck at night, through the woods and after both have been drinking. Apparently, Christopher Plummer only spent two days on set filming. 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. Cold Creek Manor Woefully predictable imperiled-yuppie-family-under-siege suspenser. ImitativeBehavior FRIGHTENING SCENES An intruder terrorizes the Tilsons, chasing them through their blacked-out home, wielding a killing hammer (Im gonna bash your skulls in and throw you down The Devils Throat). Cooper has a little bit of a bloody lip. Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site. It also helped make this film seem too long, as at least twenty minutes should have been cut in the editing room. Cooper and Leah want nothing more than to be good parents (she reminds him, We promised we would never put the kids at risk). This isn't a movie, it's channel surfing". He dumped them down into "The Devil's Throat," which is a well in the woods. KRISTEN STEWART plays the Tilsons' moody teenage daughter who doesn't like Dale from the get-go. [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". *Moderate asks a helpful local. But he has made a thriller that thrills us only if we abandon all common sense. Heavy 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. Kristen finds a piece of wood with the word "evil" on it and is then surprised by her brother. [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. No one in this movie has a shred of common sense. He had to drive up to the house, get out of the car, get the horse out of the stables, position it somewhere on the driveway, get back into the car, drive up to the horse and somehow hit it, and then drag the horse to the pool. She has never got enough credit for her talent, and I think she is the perfect match to Quaid. Answer: That may have been the intention if the film had been successful, but as it lost money, any chance of a sequel became moot. But no. 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. Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. We see a rear view of Leah in her small panties as she gets out of bed. "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. A sudden sound might startle some viewers. JULIETTE LEWIS plays his white trash girlfriend who has sex with him, uses strong profanity, is drunk, and briefly smokes. 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. JULIETTE LEWIS plays his white trash girlfriend who has sex with him, uses strong profanity, is drunk, and briefly smokes. Starring Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone and Stephen Dorff. None of the good deleted scenes are worse then anything else in the movie, but they arent much better either. Accordingly, he turns from friendly and helpful to increasingly volatile and dangerous. TOPICS TO TALK ABOUT For those concerned with bright flashes of light on the screen, some instances of that occur in several scenes in the film. A photo shows a bare-breasted young woman while an older woman is seen in her panties. Dale then sits next to Cooper and similarly orders several shots of liquor, resulting in Cooper being a bit inebriated. gtag('config', 'G-6VYSQ581R3'); A documentary filmmaker, Cooper is intrigued by the history of the house, particularly since the foreclosure on it left all of its belongings - albeit in disarray - still there and ready for examination. The movie itself is a giant mistake in filmmaking. I had hoped this would be a mock up of the documentary Cooper Tilson was working on inside the movie. An extreme amount of suspenseful and ominous music plays in the film. Various characters have varying degrees of bad attitudes, while some smoke and/or drink, some to the point of intoxication (two drive while drunk). 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). DISRESPECTFUL/BAD ATTITUDE Cold Creek Manor gets a 1 Reelrating. 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. Cooper and Leah argue about their situation. Think of the trouble it would be for one man, working alone, to kill a horse and dump it into a swimming pool. We assume she rejected the proposal, but learn later that she had actually considered it until circumstances got in the way. 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. TENSE FAMILY SCENES Curious if this title is entertaining, any good, and/or has any artistic merit? (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). The daughter and wife were far too distraught to consider that but the cop should have realized that immediately. In rural Bellingham, they buy up the huge old Cold Creek Manor, which is going cheaply, and convert it into their dream house. Two featurettes are included. We see several shots of Dale, sweaty and shirtless with his jeans riding down to expose the top of his underwear. 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). Cooper and his family slowly make their way through the dilapidated house that still has the belongings of the former residents in it (although everything's in disarray). Privacy Statement and Terms of Use and Disclaimer Suspense/Thriller: A filmmaker tries to uncover the mystery behind an old manor and its past owners after he and his family move into it. COLD CREEK MANOR is a heart-pounding thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat in tension-filled suspense. Violence consists of several deaths (from smothering, a fall and unknown means), while attempts on others' lives also occurs. JumpScenes We briefly see Ruby kissing Dale while both lie on a bed, but he then sits up and nothing else happens. He then tells Cooper that he should buy the next round for everyone there as a gesture of good will. The DVD for Cold Creek Manor gets a little higher marks for having some content to it. 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. 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. 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). So he fires him. Cinemablend is part of Future US Inc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. It is in anamorphic widescreen format with audio tracks in English and French, and subtitles in Spanish. Dale punches Ruby and then punches several people who try to restrain him. 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. He's just looking to get back on his feet. Sleep with a cop. [Spoiler Warning] Early on, Leah is propositioned by a business colleague to spend the night together. 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. After Cooper asks what she did, she says she said yes, but that an emergency phone call prevented that from happening. 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. So, how exactly did the horse die? Miscellaneous people drink in a bar where the owner offers to buy Cooper a drink. In Cold Creek Manor, documentary filmmaker Cooper Tilson (Dennis Quaid) and his corporate-bigwig wife, Leah (Sharon Stone), relocate their family from New York City to a dilapidated country estate previously owned by an ex-con, Dale (Stephen Dorff), with killer obliques.Sound familiar? Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Diffuser Disney100, Bill Gowsell has loved all things Disney since his first family trip to Walt Disney World in 1984. Several people smoke cigarettes. Dale slaps Ruby violently, then punches men who come to her aid before Sheriff Ferguson draws her pistol. Especially the whole 'getting a dead horse into the pool while drunk' part. We see a photo of a boy holding a rifle. If you want to say that, why didnt you say it in the movie? The movie received negative reviews from critics. 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. "COLD CREEK MANOR" None. He needs to get the Manor back for his father and his own mental sake, and he will do just about anything to do so. PROFANITY 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. 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. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cold_Creek_Manor&oldid=1137724953, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles to be expanded from October 2022, Articles with empty sections from October 2022, Rotten Tomatoes template using name parameter, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 6 February 2023, at 03:45. It just doesnt make sense. Kristen Stewart was nominated for a Young Artist Award for her performance in the film. Im eager to see what she does next. 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. After Cooper asks what she did, she says she said yes, but that an emergency phone call prevented that from happening. Dale Massie is not a villain in this movie, but an enabler, a character who doesn't want to kill but exists only to expedite the plot. For violence, language and some sexuality. He killed his wife and two children because they were going to leave him. Hi. We see video of a teenager in a bikini in a pool. The screenplay by Richard Jefferies tells the story of a family terrorized by the former owner of the rural estate they bought in foreclosure. Written by Richard Jefferies. Maybe the family thought the horse got loose, or was out in a field overnight? He gazes lustfully at Leah. He then puts his hands on her butt and then under her short skirt, pulling down her panties in the process. We are introduced to Cooper, his wife Leah and their kids Jesse and Kristen in the hectic life of living in NYC. The film stars Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, Stephen Dorff and Juliette Lewis.. Dale is a creep, and the fact that Copper is suckered into believing that he would be helpful makes me doubt his intelligence. He also calls a nurse, "You little bitch.". Meanwhile, Dale visits his father and smothers him to death when he insults him and reveals his knowledge of Dale's crimes. 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. They befriend local tavern owners Ray and Ellen Pinski and their daughter . Cold Creek Manor is a psychological thriller that came out in 2003. If I were Cooper Tilson, never would I befriend Dale. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Please refresh the page and try again. We see an old drawing/picture of a man holding a knife to a child. Were they possibly thinking of doing maybe a revenge sequel? We see the image of a somewhat decomposed and mummified face on a video playback. The noise. After purchasing an abandoned manor and all of its contents through a bank foreclosure, the Tilson's begin to restore the grand home. 153 offers from $1.51. Documentary filmmaker Cooper Tilson (Dennis Quaid) and his professionally. When it looks as if he has done a terrible thing, Cooper appeals to his daughter to trust in his innocence, which she does. 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). 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. There is not one moment on screen that says to me that Dale is trustworthy. Some tense family material and imitative behavior is also present. KRISTEN STEWART plays the Tilsons' moody teenage daughter who doesn't like Dale from the get-go. 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