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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Salesrank: 27278
Released: March 2, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
COLD CREEK MANOR is a heart-pounding thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat in tension-filled suspense. Wanting to escape city life for the saner, safer countryside, New Yorkers Cooper Tilson (Dennis Quaid), his wife Leah (1995 Golden Globe winner Sharon Stone, Best Actress, CASINO), and their two children move into a dilapidated old mansion still filled with the possessions of the previous family. Turning it into their dream house soon becomes a living nightmare when the previous owner (Stephen Dorff) shows up, and a series of terrifying incidents lead them on a spine-tingling search for clues to the estate's dark and lurid past.
Description of Cold Creek Manor:
Turn off your brain and Cold Creek Manor just might turn into an entertaining thriller. Taking an uncharacteristic detour into nonsensical plot mechanics, director Mike Figgis expertly pushes buttons with this nerve-jangling but ultimately hackneyed story (by Richard Jeffries) about a documentary filmmaker (Dennis Quaid) who moves his wife (Sharon Stone) and two kids into a run-down rural mansion once owned by the family of a simmering ex-convict (Stephen Dorff), who's got secret reasons for wanting Quaid's family to leave. This rote potboiler wants to be as thrilling as Fatal Attraction, but it's more like Pacific Heights--fun to watch as the tension escalates with Dorff's violent behavior, but seriously flawed as plot holes proliferate. With a few good shocks and slinky support from Juliette Lewis, it's perfectly enjoyable as a popcorn distraction, but maybe they should've called it Cold Creaky Manor instead. --Jeff Shannon
Cold Creek Manor Reviews:
COLD creek Manor 
2009-11-12 - The movie was great and it was in excellent condition. It was a horror mystery flick. I enjoyed it immensely
it was OK 
2009-05-24 - Im was kinda on the side of the killer. I wanted those yuppies to die.
Derivative stalker in a mansion movie 
2009-04-05 - This movie smells of class, with a decent cast (Sharon Stone, Dennis Quaid) and respected `character' director, Mike Figgis. So what went wrong..? The result is not exactly a mess, it's clearly carefully crafted.. but carefully crafted into something that is simply not exciting, and manages to squander the moments of occasional suspense that do build up. A fatal flaw in a movie that lies in the stalker / thriller genre.
Dennis Quaid, his wife Sharon Stone, and their young son and daughter, uproot from the city to find a quieter safer life for their family. They buy a run down manor, which still has the possessions from the original owners. Then one of those former residents turns up - recently released from jail - and he wants to help in the house renovations.... Of course, things start to go south, tensions mount, and the history of the house threatens to engulf the new owners.
There are some nice scenes with the cast, including Christopher Plummer almost unrecognizable as a curmudgeonly old foul mouthed man, and Juliette Lewis, as trailer trash girlfriend... however, the sum of the parts adds up to something less that it should. In fact, when the ending comes, you're liable to be happy for all the wrong reasons.
Not a disaster, but by no means a success either, this should appeal to genre enthusiasts only.
MIKE FIGGIS, OPUS 12
2008-09-27 - *1/2 2003. Directed by Mike Figgis. A NYC family buys a house in the country. The mansion's former owner starts to harass them. A surprisingly bad movie from the British director who never manages to enthrall us with a story seen a hundred times. I really don't know what happened to the inspired director of Internal Affairs, Leaving Las Vegas and One Night Stand. There are several themes in COLD CREEK MANOR that could have been interesting to evolve like the difficulty for an urban family to integrate in a small town or the implied sexual elements of the story for instance. Instead, we have to watch a pseudo horror movie without any originality. Inadvisable.
Review
2008-05-09 - Gave this to my wife as a christmas gift. Both of us watched this in the movie theater. We both loved it very much.
