They buy a decaying mansion that was in foreclosure and began to restore it into their dream home. He grew up in Cold Creek Manor, with an abusive dad. Cooper (DENNIS QUAID) and Leah Tilson (SHARON STONE) have decided to give up the city life of New York for the countryside of Bellingham. Dealing with bullies and/or the psychotic. It was hard to understand the motivations of the characters because the characters are paper thin. Cooper drives home while a bit intoxicated shortly after drinking many shots of liquor. What? 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). 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). 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). Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. Ruby wears a midriff-revealing top. We see Kristen in a bikini. Heavy Jesse makes a comment about a parental moment being "Miller Time." Music(Scary/Tense) But COLD CREEK MANOR is definitely not a horror film. Despite being a bit predictable, Cold Creek Manor is full of thrills and. TOPICS TO TALK ABOUT In Cold Creek Manor, a family tired of the noise, traffic and crime of the city decides to move to the country. Cold Creek Manor gets a 1 Reel rating. A bumper sticker in the sheriffs office reads, Feel safe tonight. ALCOHOL OR DRUG USE When the house becomes infested with poisonous snakes, Dale and others come to the rescue (its implied, however, that Dale may have planted the serpents to begin with). The intruder then tries to hit Cooper who blocks those attacks with a ladder. Dale puffs away in nearly every scene. One character briefly smokes a joint. You will receive a verification email shortly. 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". 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. Also, what was exactly the train of thought for the family to believe the father killed the horse? A babbling old man threatens to whip his son bloody. Their two children attend private school. It is in anamorphic widescreen format with audio tracks in English and French, and subtitles in Spanish. A family moves from New York into an old mansion in the countryside, still filled with the previous owner's things. WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT? The trailer looked interesting, and I was always game for a Dennis Quaid movie. While being drunk. The movie itself is a giant mistake in filmmaking. 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). Halloween is soon upon us, and this is the time for a scary movie. Were they possibly thinking of doing maybe a revenge sequel? One afternoon after a heated argument with Dale, Cooper finds a dental retainer along with human teeth in the gravel of his driveway, which he compares to old photos and finds it matches that of Dale's daughter. Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback. Dale smokes a number of times, while Ruby smokes once and various miscellaneous characters smoke in several scenes. Coopers quick trip to the corner store turns into an unscheduled drinking binge at the adjacent bar. Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. We see a pool of blood on the floor next to a person. He killed his wife and two children because they were going to leave him. Dale punches Ruby and then punches several people who try to restrain him. 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. Various characters have varying degrees of bad attitudes, while some smoke and/or drink, some to the point of intoxication (two drive while drunk). We see some small photos of a teenager showing her bare breasts. Kristen finds a piece of wood with the word "evil" on it and is then surprised by her brother. He only stops when the sheriff aims her gun at him. gtag('js', new Date()); Cooper then tries to rescue her (with a rope that she climbs), all while the assailant might be looming nearby. 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. Apparently, Christopher Plummer only spent two days on set filming. After Cooper asks what she did, she says she said yes, but that an emergency phone call prevented that from happening. 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. 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. Leah shows some cleavage in her swimsuit. 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. A sudden sound might startle some viewers. Starring Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone and Stephen Dorff. Sex/Nudity Veronica Guerin (Special Edition) Cate Blanchett. 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. 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). To learn the details of the manor's past, Cooper visit's Dale's aging, demented father who lives in a nearby nursing home. Violence DENNIS QUAID plays a documentary filmmaker who becomes somewhat obsessed with discovering the secret behind the manor and its former inhabitants. 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. We learn that a person killed his family sometime in the past and then see him kill his father. Cold Creek Manor is a psychological thriller that came out in 2003. Cooper drives home while a bit intoxicated shortly after drinking many shots of liquor. Miscellaneous people have beer in a restaurant. 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 truck, presumably driven by Dale, chases after Cooper in his truck at night, through the woods and after both have been drinking. Dale then sits next to Cooper and similarly orders several shots of liquor, resulting in Cooper being a bit inebriated. "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, Dale smokes a number of times, while Ruby smokes once and various miscellaneous characters smoke in several scenes. Cooper cuts off a poisonous snake's head (with brief and slightly bloody results). 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). Cooper drives home while a bit intoxicated shortly after drinking many shots of liquor. Heavy Kristen finds a piece of wood with the word "evil" on it and is then surprised by her brother. It looks like the previous occupants bugged out in a big hurry, too, as they left everything behind, including personal. 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". Leah is shown in her 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). 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. It's presumed it was hit by a car, had its head bludgeoned (as happened to Dale's family) or had its throat slit. Miscellaneous people drink in a bar where the owner offers to buy Cooper a drink. TENSE FAMILY SCENES Plot [ edit] If you are bored and have nothing else to do, why not. Its great to see an average husband and wifewith a little help from the kidsteaming up to thwart a home-wrecker. The film was shot on location in Cambridge, Kitchener, Ayr, Brougham and Toronto, Ontario. So he convinces the Tilsons to hire him as a handyman. He dumped them down into "The Devil's Throat," which is a well in the woods. We see video of a teenager in a bikini in a pool. Dale slaps Ruby violently, then punches men who come to her aid before Sheriff Ferguson draws her pistol. They then try to get away from the intruder through the dark house. Alcohol/Drugs 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 house that the Tilsons move into is a real location in Cambridge, Ontario. JumpScenes Rated R We later see that saying on a sign in a bar. CAST, CREW, & TECHNICAL INFO Dale punches Ruby and then punches several people who try to restrain him. They get back to the house where Dale has torched Leah's car. Ruby, who appears to be drunk, then joins him and orders several rounds of shots for the two of them. DANA ESKELSON plays Ruby's sister, the local sheriff who drags her feet in taking action against Dale and uses some strong profanity. COLD CREEK MANOR is a heart-pounding thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat in tension-filled suspense. The two then struggle and the intruder strikes Cooper and comments on the sound of a bone breaking. He also suffocates his bedridden father. . The Tilsons are always leaving doors open even though they know terrible dangers lurk outside, and they are agonizingly slow to realize that Dale Massie is not only the wrong person to rehab their house, but the wrong person to be in the same state with. We see a rear view of Leah in her small panties as she gets out of bed. He gazes lustfully at Leah. Dale has a tattoo on his shoulder. "Cold Creek Manor" was directed by Mike Figgis, a superb director of drama ("Leaving Las Vegas"), digital experimentation ("Timecode"), adaptations of the classics ("Miss Julie") and atmospheric film noir ("Stormy Monday"). JULIETTE LEWIS plays his white trash girlfriend who has sex with him, uses strong profanity, is drunk, and briefly smokes. Remember the abstract passing of time I mentioned before? 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. 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.". CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER plays Dale's cantankerous and mean father who's institutionalized in a nursing home. The Tilsons hesitantly agree, but soon find things going downhill from there as Ray slowly start to show his true colors. 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. 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. Ruby, who appears to be drunk, then joins him and orders several rounds of shots for the two of them. SHARON STONE plays his wife, an executive who wants to get their family out of harm's way when things get too precarious. Dale Massie is the killer. KRISTEN STEWART plays the Tilsons' moody teenage daughter who doesn't like Dale from the get-go. Realizing he needs to figure out what happened at the manor, Cooper goes to interview Dale's father (CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER), who's in a nursing home, but all he gets out of him is something about the Devil's Throat. window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; 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," 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. During an altercation, Ruby pushes Leah backwards. [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. The movie stars Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone as Cooper and Leah Tilson, who get fed up with the city and move to the country, purchasing a property that looks like the House of the Seven Gables crossed with the Amityville Horror. Tense FamilyScenes Dale Massie is a scruffy, yet muscular ex-con who claims he has no hard feelings about losing his house to these city slickers. He only stops when the sheriff aims her gun at him. It also helped make this film seem too long, as at least twenty minutes should have been cut in the editing room. He and other characters consume beer, vodka and whiskey to excess. Moderate Cooper and Leah want nothing more than to be good parents (she reminds him, We promised we would never put the kids at risk). 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. 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. 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. When my wife and I went to see it opening night in the small town that we lived in at the time, it was sold out. Some brief, sexually related dialogue is present, as is a brief and partially obscured sexual encounter (with movement and related sounds). 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. Cooper cuts off a poisonous snake's head (with brief and slightly bloody results). Parents, get practical information from a biblical worldview to help guide media decisions for your kids! Jesse is nearly struck by a vehicle when he darts out into traffic. Dale is helpful as the Tilsons adjust to their life. 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. The other featurette, The Rules of the Game is where Mike Figgis proves he is completely unable to work in the Thriller genre. 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. We see some small photos of a teenager showing her bare breasts. Burbank, CA 91521. Cooper and his family sneak onto and then into the estate before they put an offer on it (meaning they're trespassing). Cold Creek Manor is a 2003 thriller film directed by Mike Figgis. Coopers Documentary looked promising. We are shown a new weapon, so something must happen with that weapon and it does. I was hoping for a fright, and on this rewatching of the film, I found myself losing interest in the movie. Profanity consists of at least 19 "f" words, while other expletives and colorful phrases are used. 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. Documentary filmmaker Cooper Tilson (Dennis Quaid) and his professionally. . A photo shows a bare-breasted young woman while an older woman is seen in her panties. 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. If you are bored and have nothing else to do, why not. 40. DISRESPECTFUL/BAD ATTITUDE 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. function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} The screenplay by Richard Jefferies tells the story of a family terrorized by the former owner of the rural estate they bought in foreclosure. Heavy 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). Leah's boss offers to give her a promotion if she spends the night with him while on a business trip. JULIETTE LEWIS plays his white trash girlfriend who has sex with him, uses strong profanity, is drunk, and briefly smokes. 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. 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. SEX/NUDITY 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). Moving into a new home. 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. We assume she rejected the proposal, but learn later that she had actually considered it until circumstances got in the way. As written by Richard Jefferies, the film is more or less a variation of his script for the 1992 black comedy . [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. Moderate We see Jesse with a paintball rifle. Read full review 40 We see several shots of Dale, sweaty and shirtless with his jeans riding down to expose the top of his underwear. 21 offers from $7.49. He uses some profanity. There are a few deleted scenes, most of which deserved to be deleted. Cooper (DENNIS QUAID) and Leah Tilson (SHARON STONE) have decided to give up the city life of New York for the countryside of Bellingham. She uses some profanity and states that she agreed to sleep with her boss to get a promotion (but that never happened). 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. 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. The two are overheard having raucous sex, a loveless act barely obscured by a set of blinds. Not to mention that hitting an animal the size of a horse would cause far more damage to the vehicle than a broken headlight. Jesse makes a comment about a parental moment being "Miller Time." For violence, language and some sexuality. One character briefly smokes a joint. Rewatching this film has only confirmed what I have felt since that first viewing at the theatre. There are implied consequences to drunkenness when Cooper hits something with his car and his family doubts his ability to recall exactly what happened. Finally the film has a commentary track with the director. So, how exactly did the horse die? 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. Where the hell did the killer go after pushing the wife down the well? HOW OTHERS RATED THIS MOVIE I wasnt scared, nor did I even know what the plot of the film was. Directed by Mike Figgis. A person pushes Leah down into a deep hole in the ground (she's okay). MUSIC (SCARY/TENSE) Trailer (2003) When documentary filmmaker Cooper Tilson and his wife Leah decide life in New York City has become unbearable, they and their children Kristen and Jesse move into a decaying mansion filled with the possessions of the previous family. Meanwhile, the more Cooper digs into the history of Cold Creek Manor, the more frightened he becomes for his familys safety. Meanwhile, Dale visits his father and smothers him to death when he insults him and reveals his knowledge of Dale's crimes. For those concerned with bright flashes of light on the screen, some instances of that occur in several scenes in the film. Cooper is convinced that Dale is responsible, acting out of spite. It holds a 12% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 111 reviews, with an average rating of 3.8/10. 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