Cold Creek Manor Details

2003

Rated:
50
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Starring	Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, Stephen Dorff, Juliette Lewis
Director	Mike Figgis
Genres	Audio Descriptive, Thriller

Cold Creek Manor

After a succession of films boldly exploring the possibilities of digital video (TIMECODE, HOTEL), Mike Figgis returns to more traditional narrative terrain with this atmospheric thriller. Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone star as Cooper and Leah Tilson, a New York City couple who decide to move to the country in order to provide their children with a safer life (Kristen Stewart and Ryan Wilson). But they get more than they bargained for when they purchase Cold Creek Manor, a gigantic, crumbling house that has a murky, dangerous past. That past shows up at their front door one day in the form of Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff), an ex-convict who lost the house while incarcerated. At first, Dale's presence is a comfort to the Tilsons, but Cooper begins to sense that something is amiss after studying home videos and photographs that were left behind. Sure enough, his attempts to keep Dale off his property only anger the bitter psychopath, triggering a relentless assault that endangers the lives of the entire Tilson family. Figgis' taut thriller features solid lead performances by Quaid and Stone, as well as standout supporting turns from Dorff, Juliette Lewis, and Christopher Plummer.

Starring	Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, Stephen Dorff, Juliette Lewis, Christopher Plummer, Wayne Robson, Kristen Stewart
Director	Mike Figgis
Studio	WALT DISNEY STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 59 mins
Certificate
Genres	Audio Descriptive, Thriller
Language	DVD: English, English Audio Description
Hearing-impaired	English
Released	DVD: 09 Jul 2004 Production year: 2003
Format	DVD

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Absolutely ludicrous from its hokey start to senseless finish, the only shock in this ersatz haunted house thriller is that Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas) considered it worth directing. City slickers Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone move to a dilapidated country mansion where they face redneck prejudice and sinister threats from former owner and ex-con Stephen Dorff who wants to keep a dark family secret buried there. With every plot twist telegraphed well in advance, the best thing to do is sit back and stoically tick off each plodding spooky cliché as it appears. Complete with Dorff emanating badness from scene one and his trailer-trash girlfriend Juliette Lewis and her inscrutable sheriff sister, Dana Eskelson, refusing to believe the patently obvious, nothing makes sense in this technically proficient but bogus horror. More hilarious than creepy — Dorff infesting the house with poisonous snakes is embarrassingly overacted — think cold, creaky mannerisms instead.
- Radio Times
- Posted 29 Jan 2006
Leah Tilson and husband Cooper (Stone and Quaid) want out. The New York rat race is killing them. Trade the urban... read more on Time Out
- Time Out
- Posted 04 Nov 2008
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17 out of 23 people found this review helpful

The House of the Deadly Quiet, could be enhanced by something actually happening.

The Tilson family escapes from New York to the slightly dilapidated Cold Creek Manor, to the general indifference of the insular small town yokels. When newly released jailbird and previous resident Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff) shows up wanting to help with the restoration, Cooper (Dennis Quaid) can't help but feel that Dale can't be trusted and perhaps the Manor is hiding some buried secrets. The most remarkable thing about this supposed thriller is that it takes over an hour for the first slightly interesting thing to happen, and then quietens down until a finale that plays more like a homage to other films than anything that's going to shock you. A tense atmosphere cannot be created by the occasional incidental manic piano jingles alone and experienced director Mike Figgis ought to know better. Shopping for mittens contains more shocks, thrills and spills than this abortion, and overall is probably a better use of your time and money.
- - theOneliner.com from Truth Or Consequences, Scotland
  - Posted 17 Mar 2004 19:39
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

Okay

While not a great film by any means this is still highly entertaining and watchable. The problem is that it's so predictable it feels like film-making by numbers. It's well acted and well made (although everyone involved has done better work elsewhere) and a diverting couple of hours as long as you don't expect anything more.
- - Melon from East Sussex
  - Posted 24 Oct 2004 13:03
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