Average Rating: 3.8/10
Reviews Counted: 108
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 95
The plot of Cold Creek Manor is too predictable and contrived to generate suspense.
Average Rating: 4.5/10
Critic Reviews: 27
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 21
The plot of Cold Creek Manor is too predictable and contrived to generate suspense.
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Average Rating: 2.6/5
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New Yorkers get a crash course in the more dangerous aspects of moving to the country and buying a "handyman's special" in this thriller from award-winning director Mike Figgis. Cooper and Leah Tilson (Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone) are a wealthy couple who have grown tired of the high stress of life in New York City and are looking to move to someplace with more breathing room. Upstate, they find a mansion in the village of Cold Creek which has fallen into disrepair after it was repossessed.
Sep 19, 2003 Wide
Mar 2, 2004
$21.3M
Buena Vista Pictures
All Critics (118) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (101) | DVD (29)
The only things haunting this movie are cliches.
... a good-looking thriller by an excellent director with strong performances from Sharon Stone and Dennis Quaid -- yet it's oddly flat, with an exasperating plot, lots of strange turns and hardly any legitimate scares.
At the beginning, Cold Creek Manor almost makes you believe it could deliver all that and more. Instead, it follows the weary, well-worn path of so many contemporary scare-fests.
The whole thing is a waste of good professional filmmaking.
Quaid does his level best with a lame character, but Stone sinks under the weight of a thankless role.
In mechanical terms, Figgis can't seem to generate anything resembling a genuine startle or moment of suspense, and his sense of internal dramatic logic seems as cracked and flimsy as the tiling on the estate pool.
Supremely listless and scare-free nonsense.
Cold Creek Manor left me cold.
Figgis relies on Quaid's performance to convey the perilous dynamics of his character's threatened masculinity, and the performance produced by this trust is solid gold.
Nothing in Cold Creek Manor is as creepy or scary as it's supposed to be
Cold Creek Manor is a strange blend of the good, the bad, the ordinary, and the awful.
The movie builds atmosphere at the expense of action, buildup at the expense of payoff.
Despite a couple of storytelling missteps, this psychological thriller is worth watching because of its rich cinematography and fine performances.
A watchable but unspectacular thriller about a family of New Yorkers who move into a big country house with a sinister past that brings dangerous consequence for the new occupants. The film builds slowly gathering a bit of mystery and suspense then gets a little livelier towards the end. Really good cast too but with
February 18, 2011
Super Reviewer
Tense thriller about a family who move into their new home. They are soon targeted by the old tenant who has a dark secret and wants them out. Good cast.
November 10, 2007
Super Reviewer
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