"COLD CREEK MANOR" Cooper Tilson, his wife Leah and their two children, Kristen and Jesse, move from New York to the country after purchasing a mansion. When you think you'll get an explanation as to why Dale Massie is wanting the house back and kill the current owners, you don't. Mike Figgis directed, composed the music for, and produced . The previous owner, Dale Massie, convinces Cooper to hire him to help with repairs. Heavy "Do you know what you're getting yourselves into?" The pollution. Cooper and his family sneak onto and then into the estate before they put an offer on it (meaning they're trespassing). 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. Cooper races to look for him and finds him sitting on the street right in front of a stopped vehicle. Cooper and Leah argue about their situation. Dale smokes a number of times, while Ruby smokes once and various miscellaneous characters smoke in several scenes. Cooper and Leah argue about their situation. If you are bored and have nothing else to do, why not. Especially the whole 'getting a dead horse into the pool while drunk' part. One character briefly smokes a joint. I just hope its the kind of movie families will actually be able to watch. 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". No, but everybody in the audience does. Cooper also witnesses Dale strike his girlfriend Ruby in a crowded bar. Leah and Cooper have a 13-year-old daughter named Kristen (Kristen Stewart) and a 12-year-old son named Jesse (Ryan Wilson). . IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR NY 10036. Two people clothesline a third with a rope that they then use to tie him down to a skylight. A man smothers another man in a nursing home. A photo shows a bare-breasted young woman while an older woman is seen in her panties. 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. Plot points are so easily predictable it isnt funny: Coopers daughter Kristin (played by Kristin Stewart) gets a horse, so something must happen to that horse and it does. Instead the section turns out to be Figgis talking about having to film the movie as a movie, and the documentary parts as a documentary, and the home video parts as a home video. Leah Tilson (Sharon Stone) is a working mom who we're told spends about 90% of the time working, and 10% of the time being a mom. Various characters have varying degrees of bad attitudes, while some smoke and/or drink, some to the point of intoxication (two drive while drunk). The film was shot on location in Cambridge, Kitchener, Ayr, Brougham and Toronto, Ontario. Hi. Dale puts his hand between Ruby's thighs as she stands in the doorway of her camper. 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. 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. For those concerned with bright flashes of light on the screen, some instances of that occur in several scenes in the film. [2] On Metacritic which assigns a weighted mean score the film has a score of 37 out of 100 based on 31 critics, indicating "generally negative reviews". Minor Thats a shame because the Tilson familys priorities, character and interactions are pretty positive. Alcohol/Drugs PLOT: Then read OUR TAKE of this film. 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. To recap for people who havent seen Cold Creek Manor: Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone play Cooper and Leah Tilson, two New York parents who find themselves being swallowed up by the city and decide to take their family to a safer place. What? The two then struggle and the intruder strikes Cooper and comments on the sound of a bone breaking. CAST AS ROLE MODELS: As the stakes rise, Cooper insists that the rest of the family return to the city for their own safety. Not to mention that hitting an animal the size of a horse would cause far more damage to the vehicle than a broken headlight. Dennis Quaid as Cooper Tilson; Sharon Stone as Leah Tilson; Stephen Dorff as Dale Massie; Dana Eskelson as Sheriff Annie Ferguson; Juliette Lewis as Ruby; Christopher Plummer as Mr. Massie; Kristen Stewart as Kristen; Ryan Wilson as Jesse. All of this is eventually because the film never gives any solid idea of the passage of time. His wife, Leah, is a business executive who rises at 4:30 to hop a plane to her next big meeting. Curious if this title is entertaining, any good, and/or has any artistic merit? This only makes things worse, though the Tilsons cant provide the local sheriff with enough hard evidence to prove anything. Additionally, Dale is a leering pervert. 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). 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. When it looks as if he has done a terrible thing, Cooper appeals to his daughter to trust in his innocence, which she does. The former owner, Dale, offers to help them fix the place up, but resents Cooper's interest in his family history. 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). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Answer: That may have been the intention if the film had been successful, but as it lost money, any chance of a sequel became moot. window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; Other than that, enjoy Villains Wiki!!! Yet in "Cold Creek Manor," a rather plain suspense film, I don't think there is even one thing that happens that I didn't foresee. Cooper (DENNIS QUAID) and Leah Tilson (SHARON STONE) have decided to give up the city life of New York for the countryside of Bellingham. 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? Extreme {The following four categories are based on a Film Reel scale. The next shot she is talking to. The implication being that he hit the horse with the car. Synopsis Leah Tilson (Sharon Stone) gets out of bed on a busy morning in New York City at 4:30am. 7 biggest mistakes in Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens, The 20 biggest mistakes in The Wizard of Oz, 40 biggest mistakes in The Big Bang Theory, 6 Cool things you've never noticed in movies, The biggest mistakes in the Harry Potter movies, 25 mistakes you never noticed in great movies, 7 mistakes in Beetlejuice you never spotted, More questions & answers from Cold Creek Manor. QUICK TAKE: We later see that saying on a sign in a bar. When Leah gets thrown into a deep hole, Cooper ignores his own safety and is single-minded about pulling her out. asks a helpful local. SEX/NUDITY Tense FamilyScenes We see a rear view of Leah in her small panties as she gets out of bed. When the movie was released, it opened in the fifth spot with a weekend take of just over $8 million dollars. [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". After Cooper asks what she did, she says she said yes, but that an emergency phone call prevented that from happening. 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.". Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. We see a photo of a boy holding a rifle. When evil Dale Massie just stands there in the woods and doesn't push Cooper Tilson down the well, he stops being a killer and becomes an excuse for the movie to toy with us -- and it's always better when a thriller toys with the victims instead of the audience. The actors are talented, but they dont have much to work with. 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 key player this time is Ruby (Juliette Lewis), Dale's battered girlfriend, whose sister is Sheriff Annie Ferguson (Dana Eskelson). Leah is shown in her underwear. Moderate The couple team up in a climactic struggle to defend their home. KRISTEN STEWART plays the Tilsons' moody teenage daughter who doesn't like Dale from the get-go. There is not one moment on screen that says to me that Dale is trustworthy. Dale goes after Cooper and Leah, and Cooper kills Dale by shattering the skylight on the roof of the house and Dale falls to his death. Box office. If I were Cooper Tilson, never would I befriend Dale. Sex/Nudity But COLD CREEK MANOR is definitely not a horror film. We see some small photos of a teenager showing her bare breasts. Dale has a bad attitude toward Cooper and his family and sets out to harass and get them out of his former house. But no. 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). 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. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Have you ever wondered what happened in your house before you lived there? This is the question posed by the marketing for Cold Creek Manor, a poor attempt at a heart-pounding thriller that instead has you wondering Where can this film go wrong next? Its all Sharon Stones fault. He has Polaroids of his topless, pubescent stepdaughter (glimpsed several times by moviegoers). He is a psychopath who threatened to kill the Tilson family who moved to Dale's old home. So well stick with him remaining drunk, which might not have been a bad idea in order to make it through the filming. An intruder breaks through a door to get onto the roof. Veronica Guerin (Special Edition) Cate Blanchett. 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. In Cold Creek Manor, documentary filmmaker Cooper Tilson (Dennis Quaid) and his corporate-bigwig wife, Leah (Sharon Stone), relocate their family from New York City to a dilapidated country estate previously owned by an ex-con, Dale (Stephen Dorff), with killer obliques.Sound familiar? None In one scene, a persons bludgeoned body twitches in a pool of blood (viewers are spared the homicidal act itself). Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. Violence consists of several deaths (from smothering, a fall and unknown means), while attempts on others' lives also occurs. Heavy Cold Creek Manor is a 2003 thriller film directed by Mike Figgis. [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. Dale Massie is the killer. He grew up in Cold Creek Manor, with an abusive dad. Jesse is nearly struck by a vehicle when he darts out into traffic. Cooper then tries to rescue her (with a rope that she climbs), all while the assailant might be looming nearby. Kristen is mad at her dad when she thinks he accidentally killed her pony. 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. He only stops when the sheriff aims her gun at him. Director Mike Figgis (who in the past brought us Leaving Las Vegas and the brilliant film Timecode) really should have his camera taken away from him. Blood/Gore Theres an obscene gesture. 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. We learn that a person killed his family sometime in the past and then see him kill his father. 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. Leah's boss offers to give her a promotion if she spends the night with him while on a business trip. Meanwhile, Dale visits his father and smothers him to death when he insults him and reveals his knowledge of Dale's crimes. Dale's father says that Dale is the "corrupt spawn of your whoring mother" and then says that Dale's kids probably weren't even his, that he couldn't even make babies. Profanity consists of at least 19 "f" words, while other expletives and colorful phrases are used. No one in this movie has a shred of common sense. Kristen is mad at her dad when she thinks he accidentally killed her pony. Cold Creek Manor by Buena Vista Home Entertainment by Mike Figgis. Leah's boss offers to give her a promotion if she spends the night with him while on a business trip. Cooper ends up hitting a deer during that. "Creep," "Shut up," "You little bastard," "Whore," "Piss for brains," "Bitch," "Go lay an egg," "Pissing me off," "Pissed me off" and "Nuts" (crazy). Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. None of the good deleted scenes are worse then anything else in the movie, but they arent much better either. Cooper isn't happy about that and leaves for a while. Finally the film has a commentary track with the director. SHARON STONE plays his wife, an executive who wants to get their family out of harm's way when things get too precarious. CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER plays Dale's cantankerous and mean father who's institutionalized in a nursing home. Especially the whole 'getting a dead horse into the pool while drunk' part. You can unsubscribe at any time. OUR WORD TO PARENTS: CAST, CREW, & TECHNICAL INFO If they're into suspense thrillers or are fans of someone in the cast, they just might. Miscellaneous people have beer in a restaurant. We see a rear view of Leah in her small panties as she gets out of bed. 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". Miscellaneous people drink beer. Dale's father says that Dale is the "corrupt spawn of your whoring mother" and then says that Dale's kids probably weren't even his, that he couldn't even make babies. Im eager to see what she does next. Jesse is nearly struck by a vehicle when he darts out into traffic. We see Kristen in a bikini. Rooms look beaten up, filled with the relics of the previous family, and then they are clean and neat and redone, while other rooms still have walls that barely hold the room together. Future US, Inc. Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, 1 hr 58 min. Apparently, Christopher Plummer only spent two days on set filming. Its a real fixer-upper with a dark past. As they begin to fix the house up, they discover . DENNIS QUAID plays a documentary filmmaker who becomes somewhat obsessed with discovering the secret behind the manor and its former inhabitants. For violence, language and some sexuality. STEPHEN DORFF plays an ex-con who returns to the manor to work on it for the new owners, but then shows his true colors of wanting to get the house back for himself. 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. Cooper then tries to rescue her (with a rope that she climbs), all while the assailant might be looming nearby. Cooper and his family slowly make their way through the dilapidated house that still has the belongings of the former residents in it (although everything's in disarray). Dale smokes a number of times, while Ruby smokes once and various miscellaneous characters smoke in several scenes. Thank you for signing up to CinemaBlend. He then tells Cooper that he should buy the next round for everyone there as a gesture of good will. Cooper isn't happy about that and leaves for a while. Music(Inappropriate) You can help Villains Wiki by expanding it. They check out the Cold Creek Manor, which has long been abandoned. 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). That may have been the intention if the film had been successful, but as it lost money, any chance of a sequel became moot. Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. [1], Buena Vista Home Entertainment released the film on Region 1 DVD on March 2, 2004. JUMP SCENES For those concerned with bright flashes of light on the screen, some instances of that occur in several scenes in the film. Guns/Weapons Dale goes after Cooper and Leah, and Cooper kills Dale by shattering the skylight on the roof of the house and Dale falls to his death. Dale slaps Ruby violently, then punches men who come to her aid before Sheriff Ferguson draws her pistol. The scene where she claims she wasn't hit, she only fell, is the most perfunctory demonstration possible of the battered woman in denial. 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. Phrases: "Don't f*ck with him," "He'll rip your f*cking head off," "Shut the f*ck up," "Back the f*ck away," "Get the f*ck out of here," "You f*ck," "Oh sh*t," "You'll sh*t blood," "You little sh*thead," "You piece of sh*t," "You're full of sh*t," "You scared the sh*t out of me," "Corrupt spawn of your whoring mother," "Screwed up," "Where the hell /is he going/are you going to do about it?" At first it seems like everything is good. Her husband, Cooper (Dennis Quaid) is a documentary filmmaker who does all the dad-like duties. Topics ToTalk About A babbling old man threatens to whip his son bloody. He dumped them down into "The Devil's Throat," which is a well in the woods. DVD. If you want to see a good Thriller, avoid Cold Creek Manor and go find a copy of Pacific Heights. During an altercation, Ruby pushes Leah backwards. ALCOHOL OR DRUG USE IIRC the family believes it's the father precisely because his headlights/front of the car is smashed. 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. They befriend local tavern owners Ray and Ellen Pinski and their daughter . JumpScenes Miscellaneous people drink in a bar where the owner offers to buy Cooper a drink. 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. He also calls a nurse, "You little bitch." Violence consists of several deaths (from smothering, a fall and unknown means), while attempts on others' lives also occurs. Either that or he was struck with some form of mental retardation, which is really unfair because Ive seen movies in the thriller genre before with someone suffering from mental retardation that did much better then Quaid did in this movie. The screenplay by Richard Jefferies tells the story of a family terrorized by the former owner of the rural estate they bought in foreclosure. Accordingly, he turns from friendly and helpful to increasingly volatile and dangerous. "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. The noise. Biography He grew up in Cold Creek Manor, with an abusive dad. Extreme A person pushes Leah down into a deep hole in the ground (she's okay). IIRC the family believes it's the father precisely because his headlights/front of the car is smashed. After a chase, Dale corners Cooper and Leah atop the roof, and openly declares his intent to kill them and dump their bodies down the Devil's Throat like he did to his family. Especially the whole 'getting a dead horse into the pool while drunk' part. Coopers Documentary looked promising. Yeah, you might not get a good look at Stephen Dorffs cut frame, but your brain will thank you for it in the long run. Synopsis Leah Tilson (Sharon Stone) gets out of bed on a busy morning in New York City at 4:30am. BLOOD/GORE About 50 profanities or obscenities, including f-words (17), s-words, exclamatory uses of Gods name and several harsh misuses of Jesus name. Hes an actor that brings so much passion and energy to the screen that despite all the failings of a movie, Quaid can make a character shine. A man smothers another man in a nursing home. When Cooper gets spooked by a snake, Dale says, You cant be scared of all Gods creatures.. Here's a brief summary of the content found in this R-rated thriller. 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. Meanwhile, the more Cooper digs into the history of Cold Creek Manor, the more frightened he becomes for his familys safety. Dale eventually got murdered by Cooper and Leah Tilson by them hanging and tying him to a object with rale and threw him down to his death for trying to kill and harm them and for killingtheir daughter Kristen's horse that was such a nice, sweet and gentle horse that would do no harm to anyone but that sadly died so tragically due to Dale's being so evil and horrible, Kang the Conqueror (Marvel Cinematic Universe), Loki Laufeyson (Marvel Cinematic Universe). Cooper (DENNIS QUAID) and Leah Tilson (SHARON STONE) have decided to give up the city life of New York for the countryside of Bellingham. Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. Frequent obscenities (plus tween nudity and a loud, barely obscured sex scene) earn Manor its R rating and make it impossible to recommend. He killed his wife and two children because they were going to leave him. 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