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Cold Creek Manor

Cold Creek Manor (2003)

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12

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.

25

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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Average Rating: 2.6/5
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Movie Info

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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Mystery & Suspense, Drama

Richard Jefferies, Richard Jeffries

Mar 2, 2004

$21.3M

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All Critics (119) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (102) | DVD (30)

The only things haunting this movie are cliches.

September 25, 2003
Rolling Stone
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... 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.

September 22, 2003 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
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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.

September 20, 2003 Full Review Source: Salon.com
Salon.com
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The whole thing is a waste of good professional filmmaking.

September 19, 2003
Washington Post
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Quaid does his level best with a lame character, but Stone sinks under the weight of a thankless role.

September 19, 2003 Full Review Source: USA Today
USA Today
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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.

September 19, 2003 Full Review Source: Toronto Star
Toronto Star
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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.

September 13, 2012 Full Review Source: Creative Loafing
Creative Loafing

Supremely listless and scare-free nonsense.

May 3, 2005 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness
Lessons of Darkness

Cold Creek Manor left me cold.

July 15, 2004 Full Review Source: Horror.com
Horror.com

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.

March 19, 2004 Full Review Source: F5 (Wichita, KS)

Nothing in Cold Creek Manor is as creepy or scary as it's supposed to be

March 3, 2004 Full Review Source: Movie Habit
Movie Habit

Cold Creek Manor is a strange blend of the good, the bad, the ordinary, and the awful.

February 26, 2004 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis
Movie Metropolis

The movie builds atmosphere at the expense of action, buildup at the expense of payoff.

February 26, 2004 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis
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Audience Reviews for Cold Creek Manor

Corny and predictable, but easy watching. Dorff plays the bad guy reasonably well, no boring parts, but could have been helped along with more suspense..
September 4, 2006
76Majikat

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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 mixed performances. A good time-filler but there's nothing memorable about it. Plot-wise it's been done before and a lot better.
February 18, 2011
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