Cold Creek Manor (2003)
Average Rating: 3.8/10
Reviews Counted: 109
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 96
The plot of Cold Creek Manor is too predictable and contrived to generate suspense.
Average Rating: 4.6/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 21
The plot of Cold Creek Manor is too predictable and contrived to generate suspense.
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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.
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Cast
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Dennis Quaid
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Sharon Stone
Leah Tilson -
Stephen Dorff
Dale Massie -
Juliette Lewis
Ruby -
Kristen Stewart
Kristen Tilson -
Ryan Wilson
Jesse Tilson -
Dana Eskelson
Sheriff Ferguson -
Christopher Plummer
Mr. Massie -
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All Critics (119) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (102) | DVD (30)
The only things haunting this movie are cliches.
Top Critic... 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.
Director Mike Figgis also composed the score, which during the tense scenes merely sounds like a two-year-old incessantly banging on random piano keys.
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.
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