Cold Creek Manor

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Cold Creek Manor

R

Released Sep 19, 2003

1h 59m

Mystery & Thriller

Drama

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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 family up there. However, soon the former owner, a menacing local named Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff), arrives. When Dale, who has just been released from prison, asks to be hired to help repair the house, the Tilsons agree. But soon Cooper starts believing that Dale may be even more dangerous than he seems.

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Critics Consensus

The plot of Cold Creek Manor is too predictable and contrived to generate suspense.

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Empire Magazine

Rated: 2/5

Apr 1, 2006

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Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

Supremely listless and scare-free nonsense.

Rated: D

May 3, 2005

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Jamie Russell

BBC.com

A clichéd, implausible thriller.

Rated: 2/5

Jan 27, 2004

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Joel Siegel

Good Morning America

Talk about your fixer-upper - the script needs fixer-uppering.

Rated: C

Jan 4, 2018

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Steve Newton

Georgia Straight

There are no surprises at all in this totally predictable mistake of a movie.

Rated: .5/5

Feb 9, 2014

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Matt Brunson

Creative Loafing

Director Mike Figgis also composed the score, which during the tense scenes merely sounds like a two-year-old incessantly banging on random piano keys.

Rated: 2/4

Sep 13, 2012

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Dan R

2003's 'Cold Creek Manor' was a film I'd never seen the first time around so I was intrigued to watch it now it was on Disney+. SYNOPSIS: 'A family relocates from the city to a dilapidated house in the country that was once a grand estate. As they begin renovations, they discover their new home harbors a secret and may not be completely free of its former inhabitant.' What I thought was going to be a standard, by the numbers, supernatural horror film actually became something more real and a decent murder mystery. Director Figgis relies heavily on Quaid's lead performance to carry the film through. Stone, as his wife, seems uninterested throughout and really hams it up, whilst it appears Stewart was an awful actress even as a teen. Depending on your acceptance of these Hollywood B movies it'll either be easy to watch or difficult to accept this unabashedly absurd story. It's 'Hand that Rocks the Cradle' meets 'Fatal Attraction' but without the pazazz. 6/10

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/12/24

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Owen W

The scariest thing about this film is the writing, avoid.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

12/03/23

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Ian G

Formulaic drivel. I'm surprised to see Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone in a thing of such low values. "Plot" - at no point does any character in this make other than an idiotic choice when a sensible one is there just begging to be chosen. It's writing of the very lowest quality, and when coupled with directing and a story line straight from Fright Night, the result is a brew of such low quality that it angers me to have found it on the Disney channel. If you're into low grade trash movies, this one's right up your street.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

09/19/23

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Gamer Queen H

Watched it for an hour and switched it off, the best they could do to make it scary was snakes. Very boring, poor acting. Only good if you want to watch it to help you fall asleep.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

07/22/23

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Karin F

Considering the great cast, this is a movie full of tropes and clichés and if ( like me ) you love Horror / Thrillers, you will be disappointed sadly.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/02/23

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Otvio F

Completely clueless movie, it didn't bring anything new, Sharon Stone in another dramatic performance while Juliette Lewis is more erased than an ex message in the movie, the last 12 minutes of the movie gave me the strength to keep watching, a boring mess.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/27/22

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Synopsis

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 family up there. However, soon the former owner, a menacing local named Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff), arrives. When Dale, who has just been released from prison, asks to be hired to help repair the house, the Tilsons agree. But soon Cooper starts believing that Dale may be even more dangerous than he seems.

Director: Mike Figgis
Producer: Annie Stewart, Mike Figgis
Screenwriter: Richard Jefferies, Richard Jefferies
Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures
Production Co: Touchstone Pictures, Cold Creek Manor Productions, Red Mullet Productions
Rating: R (Some Sexuality|Language|Violence)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 19, 2003, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $21.4M
Runtime: 1h 59m
Sound Mix: Dolby Stereo, Dolby A, SDDS, DTS, Surround, Dolby Digital, Dolby SR

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