Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. 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." Profanity A bumper sticker in the sheriffs office reads, Feel safe tonight. The movie plays like an all-star episode of This Old House for the first hour, a telenovela for the next 30 minutes, then, finally, a hack boogeyman flick in the last reel. All rights reserved. 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. 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. 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". He also calls a nurse, "You little bitch.". The intruder then tries to hit Cooper who blocks those attacks with a ladder. For those concerned with bright flashes of light on the screen, some instances of that occur in several scenes in the film. Phone: (818) 560-1000. 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). 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. {The following four categories are based on a Film Reel scale. 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. Some tense family material and imitative behavior is also present. Especially the whole 'getting a dead horse into the pool while drunk' part. All of this is eventually because the film never gives any solid idea of the passage of time. Miscellaneous people drink beer. 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. He was protrayed by Stephen Dorff, who also portrayed Deacon Frost in Blade . By entering this site you acknowledge to having read and agreed to the above conditions. SUMMARY: In COLD CREEK MANOR, a family thinks they're getting away from New York City and entering a quiet haven in their new mansion in the boonies, but when the creepy former homeowner shows up and strange things start happening, the family must quickly figure out some long . 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. SHARON STONE plays his wife, an executive who wants to get their family out of harm's way when things get too precarious. 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. Apparently, Christopher Plummer only spent two days on set filming. Why didn't he proceed to push down the husband? 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. Miscellaneous people have beer in a restaurant. JUMP SCENES The couple team up in a climactic struggle to defend their home. One character briefly smokes a joint. 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. 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). Smoking Frequent obscenities (plus tween nudity and a loud, barely obscured sex scene) earn Manor its R rating and make it impossible to recommend. After Cooper asks what she did, she says she said yes, but that an emergency phone call prevented that from happening. He smokes a joint, uses strong profanity, smokes, has sex with Ruby and turns homicidal. Eventually the previous owner Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff). Everything he does is after a look at the script, so that he appears, disappears, threatens, seems nice, looms, fades, pushes, doesn't push, all so that we in the audience can be frightened or, in my case, amused. Here's a brief summary of the content found in this R-rated thriller. As haunted-house . I was hoping for a fright, and on this rewatching of the film, I found myself losing interest in the movie. If you were a vicious mad-dog killer and wanted to get rid of the Tilsons and had just pushed Leah down the well, and Cooper was all alone in the woods leaning over the well and trying to pull his wife back to the surface, would you just go ahead and push him in? It just doesnt make sense. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. None. Moving into a new home. VIOLENCE Which is illogical once you start thinking about it. Sex/Nudity The screenplay by Richard Jefferies tells the story of a family terrorized by the former owner of the rural estate they bought . Guns/Weapons Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. So they chuck it all. 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. At first it seems like everything is good. Not to mention that hitting an animal the size of a horse would cause far more damage to the vehicle than a broken headlight. 153 offers from $1.51. Dale punches Ruby and then punches several people who try to restrain him. The site's consensus states: "The plot of Cold Creek Manor is too predictable and contrived to generate suspense". When Leah gets thrown into a deep hole, Cooper ignores his own safety and is single-minded about pulling her out. SHARON STONE plays his wife, an executive who wants to get their family out of harm's way when things get too precarious. She uses some profanity and states that she agreed to sleep with her boss to get a promotion (but that never happened). The actors are talented, but they dont have much to work with. Two people clothesline a third with a rope that they then use to tie him down to a skylight. The movie received negative reviews from critics. SEX/NUDITY (R. 119 minutes. He uses some profanity, drinks and drives, and becomes jealous of his wife. window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; The implication being that he hit the horse with the car. 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. An intruder breaks through a door to get onto the roof. Disrespectful/Bad Attitude Heavy 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. 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. Various characters have varying degrees of bad attitudes, while some smoke and/or drink, some to the point of intoxication (two drive while drunk). Cooper throws some large roof tiles at the intruder, with one striking him on the head, bloodying him. When Juliet Luis is cleaning the windshield in the beginning of the movie, she moves to the passenger side and wets the window. 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. 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. As they begin renovations, they discover their new home harbors a secret and may not be completely free of its former inhabitant. He is a psychopath who threatened to kill the Tilson family who moved to Dale's old home. [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". Thats a shame because the Tilson familys priorities, character and interactions are pretty positive. 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. [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. 21 offers from $7.49. Dale has a bad attitude toward Cooper and his family and sets out to harass and get them out of his former house. 4.6 out of 5 stars. It stars Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone as husband and wife, they decided that life was too hectic in New York City and moved their family to the country. There are a few deleted scenes, most of which deserved to be deleted. COLD CREEK MANOR is a heart-pounding thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat in tension-filled suspense. We assume she rejected the proposal, but learn later that she had actually considered it until circumstances got in the way. 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. Cooper secretly tapes Dale's father in a nursing home (to use in a documentary). [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". "COLD CREEK MANOR" 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. 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). Dale's father refers to Dale's mother as a "whore." Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Diffuser Disney100, Bill Gowsell has loved all things Disney since his first family trip to Walt Disney World in 1984. Where the hell did the killer go after pushing the wife down the well? It was hard to understand the motivations of the characters because the characters are paper thin. We see several shots of Dale, sweaty and shirtless with his jeans riding down to expose the top of his underwear. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. 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. Leah's boss offers to give her a promotion if she spends the night with him while on a business trip. He's just looking to get back on his feet. He uses some profanity. Plot [ edit] Synopsis Leah Tilson (Sharon Stone) gets out of bed on a busy morning in New York City at 4:30am. That may have been the intention if the film had been successful, but as it lost money, any chance of a sequel became moot. Afraid for his family's safety, Cooper sends them back to stay in the city while he attempts to gather more evidence to incriminate Dale. 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). This isn't a movie, it's channel surfing". 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 are shown a new weapon, so something must happen with that weapon and it does. DANA ESKELSON plays Ruby's sister, the local sheriff who drags her feet in taking action against Dale and uses some strong profanity. Cooper races to look for him and finds him sitting on the street right in front of a stopped vehicle. His wife, Leah, is a business executive who rises at 4:30 to hop a plane to her next big meeting. Dale puts his hand between Ruby's thighs as she stands in the doorway of her camper. He dumped them down into "The Devil's Throat," which is a well in the woods. I am an admin of this site. 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. Dale belches after eating. A man smothers another man in a nursing home. 40. 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. 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] . DVD. gtag('js', new Date()); [7], Peter Travers of Rolling Stone rated the film one star and commented, "It's sad to see risk-taking director Mike Figgis do a generic thriller for a paycheck and then not even screw with the rules . 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. So, how exactly did the horse die? We see the point of view of someone approaching Cooper. Cooper cuts off a poisonous snake's head (with brief and slightly bloody results). In fact, he is very dangerous, and the humble country life that Cooper hoped to bring to his family may very well be in jeopardy. 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. 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. At Bay Area theaters.) New York, Dale, recently released from prison, initially appears to be a good, kind worker. Rated R Coopers Documentary looked promising. DANA ESKELSON plays Ruby's sister, the local sheriff who drags her feet in taking action against Dale and uses some strong profanity. He uses some profanity. Dealing with bullies and/or the psychotic. Additionally, Dale is a leering pervert. 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. The Tilson's stay at Cold Creek Manor and Dale is buried in the family cemetery on the Manor's grounds. 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. Ruby, who appears to be drunk, then joins him and orders several rounds of shots for the two of them. Cooper keeps poking around, gets a sense he doesn't trust Dale. It's implied that Cooper realizes what happened with Dale's family immediately after his own family left, and Dale attacked within the following 12 hours. Cold Creek Manor is a 2003 thriller film directed by Mike Figgis. Extreme Cooper then tries to rescue her (with a rope that she climbs), all while the assailant might be looming nearby. The Tilsons continue to live in Cold Creek Manor. There is not one moment on screen that says to me that Dale is trustworthy. We see a rear view of Leah in her small panties as she gets out of bed. [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. 1 hr 58 min. Dale smokes a number of times, while Ruby smokes once and various miscellaneous characters smoke in several scenes. Cooper and Leah want nothing more than to be good parents (she reminds him, We promised we would never put the kids at risk). The Tilsons are a loving family that must work through normal conflicts, as well as unite to overcome extraordinary ones. IIRC the family believes it's the father precisely because his headlights/front of the car is smashed. 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. [1], Buena Vista Home Entertainment released the film on Region 1 DVD on March 2, 2004. Contact me | Privacy policy | Join the mailing list | Links. After Cooper asks what she did, she says she said yes, but that an emergency phone call prevented that from happening. Kristen finds a piece of wood with the word "evil" on it and is then surprised by her brother. 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. The next shot she is talking to. "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. An intruder breaks through a door to get onto the roof. We see video of a teenager in a bikini in a pool. 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