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Cold Creek Manor

R Released Sep 19, 2003 1h 59m Mystery & Thriller Drama List
12% Tomatometer 111 Reviews 23% Popcornmeter 25,000+ Ratings
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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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 Full Review Nick Schager Lessons of Darkness Supremely listless and scare-free nonsense. Rated: D May 3, 2005 Full Review Jamie Russell BBC.com A clichéd, implausible thriller. Rated: 2/5 Jan 27, 2004 Full Review Joel Siegel Good Morning America Talk about your fixer-upper - the script needs fixer-uppering. Rated: C Jan 4, 2018 Full Review Steve Newton Georgia Straight There are no surprises at all in this totally predictable mistake of a movie. Rated: .5/5 Feb 9, 2014 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews

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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 Full Review Owen W The scariest thing about this film is the writing, avoid. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 12/03/23 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews
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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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