Cooper shatters the skylight, sending Dale to his death. 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.". Profanity
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?" Instead of finding a safer place, they buy Cold Creek Manor, an old beaten manor that they intend to turn into their dream home.
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Heres how it works. Kristen finds a piece of wood with the word "evil" on it and is then surprised by her brother. The key player this time is Ruby (Juliette Lewis), Dale's battered girlfriend, whose sister is Sheriff Annie Ferguson (Dana Eskelson). Extreme
Days go by and Dale proves to be anything but helpful. It stars Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone as husband and wife, they decided that life was too hectic in New York City and moved their family to the country.
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If you were able to make it through the film once, you most likely will have no interest in watching it again with the director talking. One day the former owner shows up and makes himself at home. He talks about the rules of the genre, pacing, music, editing, etc. Wanting to escape city life for the saner, safer countryside, New Yorkers Cooper Tilson (Dennis Quaid), his wife Leah (Golden Globe winner Sharon Stone), and their two children move into a dilapidated old mansion still filled with the possessions of the previous family. 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). We see a photo of a teenager giving "the finger." Written by Richard Jefferies. Minor
He has a good grasp of what the rules are, which makes it all the more baffling that the film doesnt follow any of them.
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.
Miscellaneous people drink beer. Burbank, CA 91521. Those scenes and several others have varying levels of bloodiness, and may 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). Cooper has a little bit of a bloody lip.
Movie Info 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. VIOLENCE
What? So he convinces the Tilsons to hire him as a handyman. For violence, language and some sexuality. Wanting to escape New York life for the countryside, Cooper (Quaid) and Leah Tilson (Stone), along with their two children, move into a dilapidated old mansion still filled with the possessions of the previous family. Leah's boss offers to give her a promotion if she spends the night with him while on a business trip. He only stops when the sheriff aims her gun at him. [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".
(Note: The "Our Take" review of this title examines the film's artistic merits and does not take into account any of the possibly objectionable material listed below). Dale punches Ruby and then punches several people who try to restrain him. A Blu-ray edition was released September 4, 2012.[11]. ALCOHOL OR DRUG USE
Miscellaneous people have beer in a restaurant. Synopsis Leah Tilson (Sharon Stone) gets out of bed on a busy morning in New York City at 4:30am. Leah wants to give Dale the benefit of the doubt when suspicions about him arise, and later apologizes to her husband for doubting his instincts. I n "Cold Creek Manor," Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone star as Cooper and Leah Tilsonworn out Manhattanites who flee the city with their children to create a simpler life in rural Upstate New York. About 50 profanities or obscenities, including f-words (17), s-words, exclamatory uses of Gods name and several harsh misuses of Jesus name. We see bloody water in the swimming pool and then see an underwater shot looking up from the bottom to reveal the silhouetted shape of a dead pony floating on the surface. Meanwhile, Dale visits his father and smothers him to death when he insults him and reveals his knowledge of Dale's crimes.
We see a pool of blood on the floor next to a person. Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. Cooper cuts off a poisonous snake's head (with brief and slightly bloody results). We are introduced to Cooper, his wife Leah and their kids Jesse and Kristen in the hectic life of living in NYC. Various clues, accompanied by portentous music, ominous winds, gathering clouds, etc., lead to the possibility that clues to Dale's crimes can be found at the bottom of an old well, and we are not disappointed in our expectation that Stone will sooner or later find herself at the bottom of that well. The scene where she claims she wasn't hit, she only fell, is the most perfunctory demonstration possible of the battered woman in denial. We see the point of view of someone approaching Cooper. 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. He then tells Cooper that he should buy the next round for everyone there as a gesture of good will. The actors are talented, but they dont have much to work with. We then see a shot of them (through a window with blinds that obscure much of what we're seeing) having sex, with movement and related sounds. CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER plays Dale's cantankerous and mean father who's institutionalized in a nursing home. Cooper then tries to rescue her (with a rope that she climbs), all while the assailant might be looming nearby. Dale Massie is a scruffy, yet muscular ex-con who claims he has no hard feelings about losing his house to these city slickers. He killed his wife and two children because they were going to leave him. Some tense family material and imitative behavior is also present. The site's consensus states: "The plot of Cold Creek Manor is too predictable and contrived to generate suspense". Extreme
As written by Richard Jefferies, the film is more or less a variation of his script for the 1992 black comedy .
"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 movie starts out in the city with the stereotypical hustle and bustle lifestyle that drives everyone into the country.
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Eventually the previous owner Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff) shows up and eventually begins to terrorize the Tilsons lives. Its great to see an average husband and wifewith a little help from the kidsteaming up to thwart a home-wrecker. Moderate
It looks like the previous occupants bugged out in a big hurry, too, as they left everything behind, including personal. 1996-2022 Screen It, Inc.
During an altercation, Ruby pushes Leah backwards. HOW OTHERS RATED THIS MOVIE
Sharon Stone is awesome.
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The Tilsons hesitantly agree, but soon find things going downhill from there as Ray slowly start to show his true colors. We briefly see Ruby kissing Dale while both lie on a bed, but he then sits up and nothing else happens. This only makes things worse, though the Tilsons cant provide the local sheriff with enough hard evidence to prove anything. The couple who own the local diner extend a warm welcome to their new neighbors. 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.
This house is going to need a lot of work. Cooper secretly tapes Dale's father in a nursing home (to use in a documentary). The Tilsons continue to live in Cold Creek Manor. Wanting to escape city life for the countryside, New Yorkers Cooper Tilson (Quaid), his wife Leah (Stone) and their two children move into a dilapidated old mansion still filled with the possessions of the previous family. Eventually the previous owner Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff). Leah shows some cleavage in her swimsuit. Tense FamilyScenes
We are shown a new weapon, so something must happen with that weapon and it does. If you want to say that, why didnt you say it in the movie? As they begin to make it their own, a series of events begin to occur that makes them believe that the former inhabitants are not yet gone. Accordingly, he turns from friendly and helpful to increasingly volatile and dangerous. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Moderate
The film was shot on location in Cambridge, Kitchener, Ayr, Brougham and Toronto, Ontario. [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. The trailer looked interesting, and I was always game for a Dennis Quaid movie. Disrespectful/Bad Attitude
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Old Mr. Massie prattles on about his late wifes promiscuity and calls Dale the corrupt spawn of your whoring mother. Dale says his own wife had an active social life as well. [10], The film opened in 2,035 theaters in the United States on September 19, 2003, and grossed $8,190,574 in its opening weekend, ranking #5 at the box office, behind Underworld, Secondhand Lions, The Fighting Temptations and Once Upon a Time in Mexico. Continuity mistake: When Juliet Luis is cleaning the windshield in the beginning of the movie, she moves to the passenger side and wets the window. The assailant falls several stories to his death. Especially the whole 'getting a dead horse into the pool while drunk' part.
We see several shots of Dale, sweaty and shirtless with his jeans riding down to expose the top of his underwear. IIRC the family believes it's the father precisely because his headlights/front of the car is smashed.
They find a sprawling run down large old house in the boonies of a small town. Cooper begins to wonder just what Dale is trying to hide, and makes a blood-chilling discovery on the property. Cooper throws some large roof tiles at the intruder, with one striking him on the head, bloodying him. Cooper throws some large roof tiles at the intruder, with one striking him on the head, bloodying him. Cooper then tries to rescue her (with a rope that she climbs), all while the assailant might be looming nearby. There are implied consequences to drunkenness when Cooper hits something with his car and his family doubts his ability to recall exactly what happened. Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site. Dale then sits next to Cooper and similarly orders several shots of liquor, resulting in Cooper being a bit inebriated. scuba diving, Touchstone and Beyond: A History of Disneys "Fright Night", Touchstone and Beyond: A History of Disneys "Alive", Universal Studios Florida's Tribute Store Tells Original, Milk Creek Entertainment Inks New Home Entertainment, Touchstone and Beyond: A History of Disneys Cold Creek Manor, New Episodes Every Wednesday House of Mouse Headlines Presented by Laughing Place. 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. He has Polaroids of his topless, pubescent stepdaughter (glimpsed several times by moviegoers). The Tilsons find themselves trapped in the house as Dale cuts the electricity. Finally the film has a commentary track with the director. Why do I have to listen to a directors commentary to know how much time is passing in the movie? Some tense family material and imitative behavior is also present. Cooper keeps poking around, gets a sense he doesn't trust Dale. Box office. Dale has a bad attitude toward Cooper and his family and sets out to harass and get them out of his former house. Dale says that he hasn't seen his kids since his wife left with them some time ago. Blood/Gore
Cold Creek Manor gets a 1 Reel rating.
We see several shots of Dale, sweaty and shirtless with his jeans riding down to expose the top of his underwear. 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).
I remember whenCold Creek Manorcame out to the theatres, I was excited. The implication being that he hit the horse with the car. He only stops when the sheriff aims her gun at him. He is a psychopath who threatened to kill the Tilson family who moved to Dale's old home. Cooper (DENNIS QUAID) and Leah Tilson (SHARON STONE) have decided to give up the city life of New York for the countryside of Bellingham. Cold Creek Manor is a psychological thriller that came out in 2003. He uses some profanity, drinks and drives, and becomes jealous of his wife. Especially the whole 'getting a dead horse into the pool while drunk' part. All Rights Reserved,
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What I saw from the trailer was not what I got when I saw the movie. As Cooper Tilson attempts to protect his family from Massies psychotic ways, he also starts to piece together the mystery of Cold Creek Manors past well, actually its Dale Massies past, but Dale Massie isnt half as interesting a title as Cold Creek Manor. 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. It also helped make this film seem too long, as at least twenty minutes should have been cut in the editing room. He is a psychopath who threatened to kill the Tilson family who moved to Dale's old home. 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. Those scare scenes mostly took away from the film's rhythm and its more penetrating family drama story. A person pushes Leah down into a deep hole in the ground (she's okay). GUNS/WEAPONS
(Note: The "Our Take" review of this title examines the film's artistic merits and does not take into account any of the possibly objectionable material listed below). No one in this movie has a shred of common sense. You can help Villains Wiki by expanding it. A man smothers another man in a nursing home. They get back to the house where Dale has torched Leah's car.
They buy a decaying mansion that was in foreclosure and began to restore it into their dream home. Suspense/Thriller: A filmmaker tries to uncover the mystery behind an old manor and its past owners after he and his family move into it. If you are bored and have nothing else to do, why not. We see a rear view of Leah in her small panties as she gets out of bed. There, they've purchased a dilapidated estate known as Cold Creek Manor and move in with their teenager daughter, Kristen (KRISTEN STEWART), and her younger brother, Jesse (RYAN WILSON). Ruby, who appears to be drunk, then joins him and orders several rounds of shots for the two of them.
With the locals becoming suspicious of them and Dale becoming increasingly unstable, Cooper and his family try to uncover the mystery regarding him and his former home before it's too late. window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
A family moves from New York into an old mansion in the countryside, still filled with the previous owner's things. Dale slaps Ruby violently, then punches men who come to her aid before Sheriff Ferguson draws her pistol. Also, the cast is solid. In the end it is revealed that Dale Massie killed his family and buried them down the "Devil's Throat" and he was coming back to claim his property. Dale smokes a number of times, while Ruby smokes once and various miscellaneous characters smoke in several scenes. Belonging to the same genre as Pacific Heights, Fatal Attraction, Cape Fear and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, this methodical, occasionally eerie thriller taps into our innate desire to protect family and home from a psychotic outsider with an axe (in this case, killing hammer) to grind.
They check out the Cold Creek Manor, which has long been abandoned. As Cooper sorts through the mess in the house, he comes across many old documents and photographs, and decides to record the history of the building on film. In fact, it's not even very good. 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. Dale punches Ruby and then punches several people who try to restrain him. He uses some profanity, drinks and drives, and becomes jealous of his wife. The pollution. Apparently, Christopher Plummer only spent two days on set filming.
Cooper agrees and we then see him and others drinking. Cold Creek Manor is a 2003 American thriller film directed by Mike Figgis, and starring Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, Stephen Dorff, Juliette Lewis, Kristen Stewart and Christopher Plummer. The Tilsons hesitantly agree, but soon find things going downhill from there as Ray slowly start to show his true colors. Sheriff Annie Ferguson, Ruby's sister, is initially skeptical about Cooper's accusation but later slowly starts to believe he may be correct. Dale has a tattoo on his shoulder. So, how exactly did the horse die? One then hits the third several times with a pick-like device, eventually causing the skylight to break and the third person to fall through it, another skylight and then hard to the floor below (where he's presumably dead). 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. Cooper Tilson, his wife Leah and their two children, Kristen and Jesse, move from New York to the country after purchasing a mansion. She has never got enough credit for her talent, and I think she is the perfect match to Quaid. Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT? Dale's father refers to Dale's mother as a "whore." In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.
The house that the Tilsons move into is a real location in Cambridge, Ontario. All Rights Reserved,
We see an old drawing/picture of a man holding a knife to a child. 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. If you want to see a good Thriller, avoid Cold Creek Manor and go find a copy of Pacific Heights. If she had only reset her alarm, then Dennis Quaid would have woken up on time. 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. An extreme amount of suspenseful and ominous music plays in the film. Cooper ends up hitting a deer during that. Profanity consists of at least 19 "f" words, while other expletives and colorful phrases are used. Please refresh the page and try again. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Headscratchers/ColdCreekManor. The rat race in general. 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). He would not have been in a rush to get the kids to school, not had his son almost hit by a car, not decided to move out of the city, and not forced me to watch the two hour debacle that follows called Cold Creek Manor. Were they possibly thinking of doing maybe a revenge sequel? Bonus features include commentary with director Mike Figgis; deleted scenes and an alternate ending; Rules of the Game, in which Figgis discusses the components of a psychological thriller; and Cooper's Documentary, in which he discusses the process of making the film within the film. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Diffuser Disney100, Bill Gowsell has loved all things Disney since his first family trip to Walt Disney World in 1984. The screenplay by Richard Jefferies tells the story of a family terrorized by the former owner of the rural estate they bought in foreclosure. Then read OUR TAKE of this film. "Cold Creek Manor" was directed by Mike Figgis, a superb director of drama ("Leaving Las Vegas"), digital experimentation ("Timecode"), adaptations of the classics ("Miss Julie") and atmospheric film noir ("Stormy Monday").
Wanting to simplify their lives, the Tilsons decide to buy a recently repossessed mansion out in the country. Dale shows up at the trailer of his trashy girlfriend, Ruby, and begins undressing her. A person pushes Leah down into a deep hole in the ground (she's okay). Extreme
When the girlfriend is at Dale Massey's grave at end of movie, it seems like it showed her angry face and then cut away to the credits.
The two then struggle and the intruder strikes Cooper and comments on the sound of a bone breaking. Future US, Inc. Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, SEX/NUDITY
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His girlfriend, Ruby (JULIETTE LEWIS), tells Cooper to watch his back, but her sister, Sheriff Ferguson (DANA ESKELSON), doesn't initially seem able or willing to help. We see video of a teenager in a bikini in a pool. One afternoon after a heated argument with Dale, Cooper finds a dental retainer along with human teeth in the gravel of his driveway, which he compares to old photos and finds it matches that of Dale's daughter. As they begin renovations, they discover their new home harbors a secret and may not be completely free of its former inhabitant. But COLD CREEK MANOR is definitely not a horror film. The DVD for Cold Creek Manor gets a little higher marks for having some content to it. It is in anamorphic widescreen format with audio tracks in English and French, and subtitles in Spanish. As they begin to fix the house up, they discover . The movie of course issues two small children to the Tilsons, so that their little screams can pipe up on cue, as when the beloved horse is found in the pool. We later see that saying on a sign in a bar. Cooper cuts off a poisonous snake's head (with brief and slightly bloody results). He then tells Cooper that he should buy the next round for everyone there as a gesture of good will. Why didn't he proceed to push down the husband? 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. An intruder breaks through a door to get onto the roof. She uses some profanity and states that she agreed to sleep with her boss to get a promotion (but that never happened). One with Quaid and the other with Dorff. Leah is shown in her underwear. Cold Creek Manor's prime reason for being seems to be a set piece involving poisonous snakes, directed by Figgis with a drunken gusto the rest of the film could use, and as a comeback vehicle for Stone, who tries hard at motherly warmth, but can't quite wash the Catherine Tramell out of her hair. New York,
A truck, presumably driven by Dale, chases after Cooper in his truck at night, through the woods and after both have been drinking. 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. . Coopers quick trip to the corner store turns into an unscheduled drinking binge at the adjacent bar. [5], Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated the film 1 stars and called it "an anthology of cliches" and "a thriller that thrills us only if we abandon all common sense". One character briefly smokes a joint.
gtag('config', 'G-6VYSQ581R3'); A documentary filmmaker, Cooper is intrigued by the history of the house, particularly since the foreclosure on it left all of its belongings - albeit in disarray - still there and ready for examination. Basically its a featurette that makes a big deal out of something thats common sense and shouldnt have taken much artistic skill to pull off. Cooper secretly tapes Dale's father in a nursing home (to use in a documentary). Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. Cooper isn't happy about that and leaves for a while. 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. I don't think someone could fly out from NYC and come help him within that timeframe. Moderate
1996-2022 Screen It, Inc. DENNIS QUAID plays a documentary filmmaker who becomes somewhat obsessed with discovering the secret behind the manor and its former inhabitants. 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?" For those concerned with bright flashes of light on the screen, some instances of that occur in several scenes in the film.
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