Profanity consists of at least 19 "f" words, while other expletives and colorful phrases are used. So, how exactly did the horse die? 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. Apparently, Christopher Plummer only spent two days on set filming. DVD. Dale Massie is a scruffy, yet muscular ex-con who claims he has no hard feelings about losing his house to these city slickers. The trailer looked interesting, and I was always game for a Dennis Quaid movie. He only stops when the sheriff aims her gun at him. 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). Realizing he needs to figure out what happened at the manor, Cooper goes to interview Dale's father (CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER), who's in a nursing home, but all he gets out of him is something about the Devil's Throat. The locals act as a kind of Greek chorus, living permanently at the diner and prepared on a moment's notice to issue portentous warnings or gratuitous insults. PLOT: On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. He has Polaroids of his topless, pubescent stepdaughter (glimpsed several times by moviegoers). Thank you for signing up to CinemaBlend. 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. Dale Massie is the killer. An intruder breaks through a door to get onto the roof. A Blu-ray edition was released September 4, 2012.[11]. "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. I wasnt scared, nor did I even know what the plot of the film was. 1996-2022 Screen It, Inc. KRISTEN STEWART plays the Tilsons' moody teenage daughter who doesn't like Dale from the get-go. Eventually the previous owner Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff). Have you ever wondered what happened in your house before you lived there? This is the question posed by the marketing for Cold Creek Manor, a poor attempt at a heart-pounding thriller that instead has you wondering Where can this film go wrong next? Its all Sharon Stones fault. Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback. We briefly see Ruby kissing Dale while both lie on a bed, but he then sits up and nothing else happens. To top it off, Dennis Quaids character gets drunk about halfway through the movie and Quaid himself seems to stay that way through the rest of the film. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. [Spoiler Warning] We eventually see physical evidence of this crime in the form of decomposed bodies that had been thrown into a deep well called The Devils Throat. Leah and Cooper have a 13-year-old daughter named Kristen (Kristen Stewart) and a 12-year-old son named Jesse (Ryan Wilson). MUSIC (INAPPROPRIATE) [1], Buena Vista Home Entertainment released the film on Region 1 DVD on March 2, 2004. 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. The scene where she claims she wasn't hit, she only fell, is the most perfunctory demonstration possible of the battered woman in denial. A photo shows a bare-breasted young woman while an older woman is seen in her panties. Some tense family material and imitative behavior is also present. Cooper and his family sneak onto and then into the estate before they put an offer on it (meaning they're trespassing). Website: www.disney.com. The key player this time is Ruby (Juliette Lewis), Dale's battered girlfriend, whose sister is Sheriff Annie Ferguson (Dana Eskelson). Meanwhile, the more Cooper digs into the history of Cold Creek Manor, the more frightened he becomes for his familys safety. Bad writing lets the characters make bad decisions, hiring the former house owner (who broke in to have a look around) to fix the pool instead of asking him to leave or calling police, or worse, characters dont pass on what easily seems to be crucial information to other characters. Cooper Tilson, his wife Leah and their two children, Kristen and Jesse, move from New York to the country after purchasing a mansion. "Creep," "Shut up," "You little bastard," "Whore," "Piss for brains," "Bitch," "Go lay an egg," "Pissing me off," "Pissed me off" and "Nuts" (crazy). Reviewed September 17, 2003 / Posted September 19, 2003 153 offers from $1.51. He had to drive up to the house, get out of the car, get the horse out of the stables, position it somewhere on the driveway, get back into the car, drive up to the horse and somehow hit it, and then drag the horse to the pool. Dale is a creep, and the fact that Copper is suckered into believing that he would be helpful makes me doubt his intelligence. Why do I have to listen to a directors commentary to know how much time is passing in the movie? A truck, presumably driven by Dale, chases after Cooper in his truck at night, through the woods and after both have been drinking. Cooper drives home while a bit intoxicated shortly after drinking many shots of liquor. The movie is an anthology of cliches, not neglecting both the Talking Killer, who talks when he should be at work, and the reliable climax where both the villain and his victims go to a great deal of inconvenience to climb to a high place so that one of them can fall off. Its a real fixer-upper with a dark past. RYAN WILSON plays her younger brother who somewhat becomes obsessed with a dark poem written by the boy who lived in the house before him. Phone: (818) 560-1000. One day the former owner shows up and makes himself at home. He gazes lustfully at Leah. Dale then sits next to Cooper and similarly orders several shots of liquor, resulting in Cooper being a bit inebriated. JumpScenes Which is illogical once you start thinking about it. 4.6 out of 5 stars. Two people clothesline a third with a rope that they then use to tie him down to a skylight. Cooper agrees and we then see him and others drinking. 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. Halloween is soon upon us, and this is the time for a scary movie. Her husband, Cooper Tilson (Dennis Quaid), reminds her to reset the alarm clock to wake him up in time to get the kids to school and go to work. We see a rear view of Leah in her small panties as she gets out of bed. A family relocates from the city to a dilapidated house in the country that was once a grand estate. Jesse is nearly struck by a vehicle when he darts out into traffic. Eskelsons rsum may not be as extensive as those of her co-stars, but thats sure to change. We are introduced to Cooper, his wife Leah and their kids Jesse and Kristen in the hectic life of living in NYC. During an altercation, Ruby pushes Leah backwards. We see a photo of a teenager giving "the finger.". Its a hustle-bustle life, the pressures of which reach a crescendo when a near-miss in heavy traffic endangers one of the children. Starring Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone and Stephen Dorff. [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. Dale has a tattoo on his shoulder. Cold Creek Manor (2003) Directed by Mike Figgis Stephen Dorff [Dale Massie] Christopher Plummer [Mr. Massie] Simon Reynolds [Ray Pinski] Paula Brancati [Stephanie Pinski] Kathleen Duborg [Ellen Pinski] Dana Eskelson [Sheriff Annie Ferguson] . At first it seems like everything is good. 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. ALCOHOL OR DRUG USE He then puts his hands on her butt and then under her short skirt, pulling down her panties in the process. Cold Creek Manor (2003) Grace (Sharon Stone) and Cooper (Dennis Quaid) decide that they need to slow their lives down a bit and move their family into a big estate in the country. A babbling old man threatens to whip his son bloody. Director Mike Figgis (who in the past brought us Leaving Las Vegas and the brilliant film Timecode) really should have his camera taken away from him. All Rights Reserved, Various characters have varying degrees of bad attitudes, while some smoke and/or drink, some to the point of intoxication (two drive while drunk). . The Tilsons are a loving family that must work through normal conflicts, as well as unite to overcome extraordinary ones. A horse is killed and dumped in the family swimming pool. They then try to get away from the intruder through the dark house. In fact, it's not even very good. IIRC the family believes it's the father precisely because his headlights/front of the car is smashed. Once Dale enters the pictureand notices Cooper working on a documentary about the history of his new homestrange things start to happen. 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. There are implied consequences to drunkenness when Cooper hits something with his car and his family doubts his ability to recall exactly what happened. 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. A person pushes Leah down into a deep hole in the ground (she's okay). Cooper throws some large roof tiles at the intruder, with one striking him on the head, bloodying him. Ruby, who appears to be drunk, then joins him and orders several rounds of shots for the two of them. Alcohol/Drugs COLD CREEK MANOR is a heart-pounding thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat in tension-filled suspense. He then tells Cooper that he should buy the next round for everyone there as a gesture of good will. 1 Reel-Bored and Killing Time, 2 Reels-When You Have Some Time, 3 Reels-Make Some Time, 4 Reels-Big Screen Event}. As they begin to fix the house up, they discover . the only things haunting this movie are cliches". 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. In one scene, a persons bludgeoned body twitches in a pool of blood (viewers are spared the homicidal act itself). Accordingly, he turns from friendly and helpful to increasingly volatile and dangerous. When Cooper gets spooked by a snake, Dale says, You cant be scared of all Gods creatures.. 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. 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). I have always liked Dennis Quaid. He then puts his hands on her butt and then under her short skirt, pulling down her panties in the process. Dale punches Ruby and then punches several people who try to restrain him. He only stops when the sheriff aims her gun at him. Dale, recently released from prison, initially appears to be a good, kind worker. He was protrayed by Stephen Dorff, who also portrayed Deacon Frost in Blade. The movie received negative reviews from critics. Where the hell did the killer go after pushing the wife down the well? Coopers Documentary looked promising. He dumped them down into "The Devil's Throat," which is a well in the woods. The Tilson's stay at Cold Creek Manor and Dale is buried in the family cemetery on the Manor's grounds. Especially the whole 'getting a dead horse into the pool while drunk' part. The other featurette, The Rules of the Game is where Mike Figgis proves he is completely unable to work in the Thriller genre. (2003) (Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone) (R) 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. *Moderate Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. 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. At Bay Area theaters.) VIOLENCE Heavy Minor In rural Bellingham, they buy up the huge old Cold Creek Manor, which is going cheaply, and convert it into their dream house. For those concerned with bright flashes of light on the screen, some instances of that occur in several scenes in the film. He added, "Of course preposterous things happen in all thrillers, but there must be at least a gesture in the direction of plausibility, or we lose patience". If you want to say that, why didnt you say it in the movie? Rewatching this film has only confirmed what I have felt since that first viewing at the theatre. TOPICS TO TALK ABOUT Kristen Stewart was nominated for a Young Artist Award for her performance in the film. I am an admin of this site. Her husband, Cooper Tilson (Dennis Quaid), reminds her to reset the alarm clock to wake him up in time to get the kids to school and go to work. Remember the abstract passing of time I mentioned before? The site's consensus states: "The plot of Cold Creek Manor is too predictable and contrived to generate suspense". Moderate You can help Villains Wiki by expanding it. 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). The script grafts from every possible thriller most of which had pilfered their predecessors and loads on implausibilities until we wonder why the actors play it seriously". "COLD CREEK MANOR" After Jesse is almost killed in an automobile accident, Cooper decides it is time to get out of the city. 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. Tense FamilyScenes 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). Dale's father refers to Dale's mother as a "whore." DENNIS QUAID plays a documentary filmmaker who becomes somewhat obsessed with discovering the secret behind the manor and its former inhabitants. Disrespectful/Bad Attitude However, don't go out of your way to check in . He dumped them down into "The Devil's Throat," which is a well in the woods. Kristen finds a piece of wood with the word "evil" on it and is then surprised by her brother. The intruder then tries to hit Cooper who blocks those attacks with a ladder. QUICK TAKE: Coopers quick trip to the corner store turns into an unscheduled drinking binge at the adjacent bar. They buy a decaying mansion that was in foreclosure and began to restore it into their dream home. I was hoping for a fright, and on this rewatching of the film, I found myself losing interest in the movie. Dealing with bullies and/or the psychotic. When the movie was released, it opened in the fifth spot with a weekend take of just over $8 million dollars. Veronica Guerin (Special Edition) Cate Blanchett. A bumper sticker in the sheriffs office reads, Feel safe tonight. Dale is helpful as the Tilsons adjust to their life. By entering this site you acknowledge to having read and agreed to the above conditions. Ruby, who appears to be drunk, then joins him and orders several rounds of shots for the two of them. The movie starts out in the city with the stereotypical hustle and bustle lifestyle that drives everyone into the country. They find a sprawling run down large old house in the boonies of a small town. They then try to get away from the intruder through the dark house. Leah Tilson (Sharon Stone) is a working mom who we're told spends about 90% of the time working, and 10% of the time being a mom. Were they possibly thinking of doing maybe a revenge sequel? Should you still be concerned about the film's appropriateness for yourself or anyone else in your home, you may want to look more closely at our detailed listings for more specific information regarding the film's content. Starring: Dennis Quaid, Christopher Plummer, Sharon Stone, Kristen Stewart, Juliette Lewis, Stephen Dorff, Dana Eskelson, Ryan Wilson. 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). When he is not spending time with his family, Bill can be found at the bottom of a lake . We see video of a teenager in a bikini in a pool. 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