Dale smokes a number of times, while Ruby smokes once and various miscellaneous characters smoke in several scenes. Unfortunately most of that content is mediocre and just acts as a reminder of how poor the movie really is. Plot [ edit] We are shown a new weapon, so something must happen with that weapon and it does. Wanting to simplify their lives, the Tilsons decide to buy a recently repossessed mansion out in the country. Kristen finds a piece of wood with the word "evil" on it and is then surprised by her brother. Were they possibly thinking of doing maybe a revenge sequel? Quaid plays the part well, and Stephen Dorff is great as the slimy Dale, but Dale Massie is a walking red flag to run away from. Dale Massie is not a villain in this movie, but an enabler, a character who doesn't want to kill but exists only to expedite the plot. He also calls a nurse, "You little bitch." If you want to see a good Thriller, avoid Cold Creek Manor and go find a copy of Pacific Heights. Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback. 21 offers from $7.49. We see video of a teenager in a bikini in a pool. Biography He grew up in Cold Creek Manor, with an abusive dad. Dale pushes Leah into the well but Cooper manages to pull her out. Cooper and Leah argue about their situation. Leah's boss offers to give her a promotion if she spends the night with him while on a business trip. Violence consists of several deaths (from smothering, a fall and unknown means), while attempts on others' lives also occurs. Synopsis. Were they possibly thinking of doing maybe a revenge sequel? The movie itself is a giant mistake in filmmaking. Cold Creek Manor is a 2003 thriller film directed by Mike Figgis. He then tells Cooper that he should buy the next round for everyone there as a gesture of good will. When you think you'll get an explanation as to why Dale Massie is wanting the house back and kill the current owners, you don't. Mike Figgis directed, composed the music for, and produced . Cooper throws some large roof tiles at the intruder, with one striking him on the head, bloodying him. Cooper agrees and we then see him and others drinking. In "Under the Tuscan Sun," another new movie, Diane Lane is able to find some cheerful Polish workers to rehab her Tuscan villa, but the Tilsons have the extraordinarily bad judgment to hire the former owner of the house, Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff), an ex-con with a missing family. 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. 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. Cooper (DENNIS QUAID) and Leah Tilson (SHARON STONE) have decided to give up the city life of New York for the countryside of Bellingham. At Bay Area theaters.) We later see that saying on a sign in a bar. So he fires him. They then try to get away from the intruder through the dark house. I was especially impressed with relative newcomer Dana Eskelson as the no-nonsense, tough-as-nails sheriff who gives the Tilsons someone to turn to amidst chaos. Cooper has a little bit of a bloody lip. Rated R We see various poisonous snakes in various places through the house, including in Leah's bed, in construction plastic along the ceiling, under Jesse's bed and under the fridge where Cooper reaches, unaware what's there. Dale puffs away in nearly every scene. The film drags at times and the audience is almost guaranteed to be ahead of the film by the end of the first act, but Figgis tells us these are no-nos for the genre. As they begin renovations, they discover their new home harbors a secret and may not be completely free of its former inhabitant. Topics ToTalk About The assailant falls several stories to his death. Dale Massie is the killer. Dale Massie is the main antagonist of the 2003 film Cold Creek Manor. WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT? 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 movie starts out in the city with the stereotypical hustle and bustle lifestyle that drives everyone into the country. Ruby wears a midriff-revealing top. Apparently, Christopher Plummer only spent two days on set filming. Kristen is mad at her dad when she thinks he accidentally killed her pony. One with Quaid and the other with Dorff. DISRESPECTFUL/BAD ATTITUDE 7 biggest mistakes in Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens, The 20 biggest mistakes in The Wizard of Oz, 40 biggest mistakes in The Big Bang Theory, 6 Cool things you've never noticed in movies, The biggest mistakes in the Harry Potter movies, 25 mistakes you never noticed in great movies, 7 mistakes in Beetlejuice you never spotted, More questions & answers from Cold Creek Manor. Scenes listed under "Violence" might also 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). We see Jesse with a paintball rifle. Yeah, you might not get a good look at Stephen Dorffs cut frame, but your brain will thank you for it in the long run. Especially the whole 'getting a dead horse into the pool while drunk' part. 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 going to edit a lot, then make yourself a user and login. Not to mention that hitting an animal the size of a horse would cause far more damage to the vehicle than a broken headlight. Dale Massie is the main antagonist of the 2003 film Cold Creek Manor. It is in anamorphic widescreen format with audio tracks in English and French, and subtitles in Spanish. Curious if this title is entertaining, any good, and/or has any artistic merit? 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. We see a pool of blood on the floor next to a person. We see the image of a somewhat decomposed and mummified face on a video playback. 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). It looks like the previous occupants bugged out in a big hurry, too, as they left everything behind, including personal. The two get into a fight at a bar, Dale and Cooper both drive away, but Dale chases him, and Cooper hits a deer in the process; Dale kills the daughter's pony, kills his dad in the nursing home (he mentions killing his family). 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. If you were a vicious mad-dog killer and wanted to get rid of the Tilsons and had just pushed Leah down the well, and Cooper was all alone in the woods leaning over the well and trying to pull his wife back to the surface, would you just go ahead and push him in? Here's a brief summary of the content found in this R-rated thriller. There is not one moment on screen that says to me that Dale is trustworthy. The screenplay by Richard Jefferies tells the story of a family terrorized by the former owner of the rural estate they bought in foreclosure. 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). Music(Inappropriate) What? A series of unusual incidents start to occur; Cooper is pursued by an unknown car, multiple venomous snakes are found in the property, and Kristen's horse is mysteriously killed, leading Cooper to suspect Dale. He only stops when the sheriff aims her gun at him. Design and text 1996 - 2023 Jon Sandys. We see a photo of a teenager giving "the finger." Leah shows some cleavage in her swimsuit. Box office. He uses some profanity. Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab). Frightening/Tense Scenes Dale belches after eating. When Juliet Luis is cleaning the windshield in the beginning of the movie, she moves to the passenger side and wets the window. All rights reserved. Dale shows up at the trailer of his trashy girlfriend, Ruby, and begins undressing her. The two then struggle and the intruder strikes Cooper and comments on the sound of a bone breaking. 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. Im eager to see what she does next. Cooper isn't happy about that and leaves for a while. When Cooper gets spooked by a snake, Dale says, You cant be scared of all Gods creatures.. Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. VIOLENCE The daughter and wife were far too distraught to consider that but the cop should have realized that immediately. 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. Its almost like the script purposely makes the audience want to dislike Leah, so they muted Stone from being able to make her presence known in the film. She uses some profanity and states that she agreed to sleep with her boss to get a promotion (but that never happened). 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. The implication being that he hit the horse with the car. I wasnt scared, nor did I even know what the plot of the film was. 1996-2022 Screen It, Inc. 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. Heavy . 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. He then tells Cooper that he should buy the next round for everyone there as a gesture of good will. When Leah gets thrown into a deep hole, Cooper ignores his own safety and is single-minded about pulling her out. Their two children attend private school. When we finally saw the film a week later, I left the theatre disappointed. Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. [9], Todd McCarthy of Variety called the film "a woefully predictable imperiled-yuppie-family-under-siege suspenser that hardly seems worth the attention of its relatively high-profile participants. That movie isnt perfect by a long shot, but it throttled back where Cold Creek Manor goes overboard. Miscellaneous people drink in a bar where the owner offers to buy Cooper a drink. 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. 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. Cooper (DENNIS QUAID) and Leah Tilson (SHARON STONE) have decided to give up the city life of New York for the countryside of Bellingham. . Leah is shown in her underwear. Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site. 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. A man smothers another man in a nursing home. So well stick with him remaining drunk, which might not have been a bad idea in order to make it through the filming. So they chuck it all. Extreme Quaid starred in a similar film in 2019 called. 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. She has never got enough credit for her talent, and I think she is the perfect match to Quaid. They then meet the former owner, Dale Massie (STEPHEN DORFF), who states he just got out of prison and would like to work for them restoring the house back to its once prominent state. Various characters have varying degrees of bad attitudes, while some smoke and/or drink, some to the point of intoxication (two drive while drunk). IIRC the family believes it's the father precisely because his headlights/front of the car is smashed. It just doesnt make sense. Cooper cuts off a poisonous snake's head (with brief and slightly bloody results). Finally the film has a commentary track with the director. Much of the thrills felt like padding to please the genre expectations demanded for this mainstream B-movie. "Creep," "Shut up," "You little bastard," "Whore," "Piss for brains," "Bitch," "Go lay an egg," "Pissing me off," "Pissed me off" and "Nuts" (crazy). 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. The restoration project derails when Dale Massie, played . And both Cooper and Leah are tinged with the suggestion of adultery, because in American movies, as we all know, sexual misconduct leads to bad real estate choices. What I saw from the trailer was not what I got when I saw the movie. CAST, CREW, & TECHNICAL INFO 1 Reel-Bored and Killing Time, 2 Reels-When You Have Some Time, 3 Reels-Make Some Time, 4 Reels-Big Screen Event}. A Blu-ray edition was released September 4, 2012.[11]. 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. 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 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. 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. Frequent obscenities (plus tween nudity and a loud, barely obscured sex scene) earn Manor its R rating and make it impossible to recommend. 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. During an altercation, Ruby pushes Leah backwards. The rat race in general. Cold Creek Manor is meant to be a creepy thriller, which isnt that creepy, nor scary. Moderate Once Dale enters the pictureand notices Cooper working on a documentary about the history of his new homestrange things start to happen. TOPICS TO TALK ABOUT Privacy Statement and Terms of Use and Disclaimer 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. Eventually the previous owner Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff) shows up and eventually begins to terrorize the Tilsons lives. *Moderate He gazes lustfully at Leah. 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." 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. 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). "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"). To recap for people who havent seen Cold Creek Manor: Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone play Cooper and Leah Tilson, two New York parents who find themselves being swallowed up by the city and decide to take their family to a safer place. 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. "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. Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. Dale comments on Leah saying that he could have "f*cked" her anytime he asked. During an altercation, Ruby pushes Leah backwards. Cooper then tries to rescue her (with a rope that she climbs), all while the assailant might be looming nearby. 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?" So there's this family in New York City, but they want to get away to someplace less hectic, so they buy a run-down old house in the country. Dale punches Ruby and then punches several people who try to restrain him. Blood/Gore Instead of finding a safer place, they buy Cold Creek Manor, an old beaten manor that they intend to turn into their dream home. 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. But COLD CREEK MANOR is definitely not a horror 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". Two featurettes are included. Cooper begins to wonder just what Dale is trying to hide, and makes a blood-chilling discovery on the property. The Tilson's stay at Cold Creek Manor and Dale is buried in the family cemetery on the Manor's grounds. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Diffuser Disney100, Bill Gowsell has loved all things Disney since his first family trip to Walt Disney World in 1984. Directed by Mike Figgis. Cooper cuts off a poisonous snake's head (with brief and slightly bloody results). So he convinces the Tilsons to hire him as a handyman. 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. We briefly see Ruby kissing Dale while both lie on a bed, but he then sits up and nothing else happens. SHARON STONE plays his wife, an executive who wants to get their family out of harm's way when things get too precarious. 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. Cooper throws some large roof tiles at the intruder, with one striking him on the head, bloodying him. Figgis talking during a scene transition says Lets say this is a month later. 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. JUMP SCENES He and other characters consume beer, vodka and whiskey to excess. Meanwhile, the more Cooper digs into the history of Cold Creek Manor, the more frightened he becomes for his familys safety. Everything he does is after a look at the script, so that he appears, disappears, threatens, seems nice, looms, fades, pushes, doesn't push, all so that we in the audience can be frightened or, in my case, amused. Leah's boss offers to give her a promotion if she spends the night with him while on a business trip. Synopsis Leah Tilson (Sharon Stone) gets out of bed on a busy morning in New York City at 4:30am. I don't think someone could fly out from NYC and come help him within that timeframe. 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). In one scene, a persons bludgeoned body twitches in a pool of blood (viewers are spared the homicidal act itself). (2003) (Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone) (R) 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. It holds a 12% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 111 reviews, with an average rating of 3.8/10. When it looks as if he has done a terrible thing, Cooper appeals to his daughter to trust in his innocence, which she does. Minor Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. He also suffocates his bedridden father. Phone: (818) 560-1000. In fact, I suggest you dont watch it with his commentary track since he inadvertantly points out a lot of the mistakes Ive pointed out above. We see some small photos of a teenager showing her bare breasts. To learn the details of the manor's past, Cooper visit's Dale's aging, demented father who lives in a nearby nursing home. We see a rear view of Leah in her small panties as she gets out of bed. The scene where she claims she wasn't hit, she only fell, is the most perfunctory demonstration possible of the battered woman in denial. He uses some profanity, drinks and drives, and becomes jealous of his wife. People describe a brutal method of killing sheep by using modified tools to inflict a sharp blow to the base of the skull that penetrates the brain. Produced by Touchstone Pictures / Red Mullet / Cold Creek Manor Productions. This isn't a movie, it's channel surfing". . When he is not spending time with his family, Bill can be found at the bottom of a lake . The audience has to undergo an extended scene in which Cooper is not pushed down the well, in order for everyone to hurry back to the house, climb up to the roof, fall off, etc. Jesse is nearly struck by a vehicle when he darts out into traffic. Cooper and his family slowly make their way through the dilapidated house that still has the belongings of the former residents in it (although everything's in disarray). So he convinces the Tilsons to hire him as a handyman. We later see that saying on a sign in a bar. Future US, Inc. Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, Days go by and Dale proves to be anything but helpful. The intruder then tries to hit Cooper who blocks those attacks with a ladder. He put snakes in the tilson's house, he would stalk the tilson family by trying to harm them and bother them he killed Kristen Tilson's horse that her friend gave her as a present when the Tilson Family wasn't presentand then he threw the dead horse into the Tilson's Family'spool. 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. Synopsis Leah Tilson (Sharon Stone) gets out of bed on a busy morning in New York City at 4:30am. JumpScenes The actors are talented, but they dont have much to work with. [3] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "C" on a scale of A+ to F.[4], Stephen Holden of The New York Times observed, "A serious filmmaker like Mike Figgis can be forgiven, I suppose, for slumming, when he's got a cast as stellar as the one that infuses the scream-by-numbers thriller Cold Creek Manor with more psychological credibility than its screenplay merits". 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. 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. 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. Some tense family material and imitative behavior is also present. Cold Creek Manor by Buena Vista Home Entertainment by Mike Figgis. No one in this movie has a shred of common sense. 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. Reviewed September 17, 2003 / Posted September 19, 2003 Cooper and his family slowly make their way through the dilapidated house that still has the belongings of the former residents in it (although everything's in disarray). There are implied consequences to drunkenness when Cooper hits something with his car and his family doubts his ability to recall exactly what happened. In all movies involving city people who move to the country, there is an unwritten rule that everybody down at the diner knows all about the history of the new property and the secrets of its former owners. 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). (R. 119 minutes. The noise. KRISTEN STEWART plays the Tilsons' moody teenage daughter who doesn't like Dale from the get-go. 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. We learn that a person killed his family sometime in the past and then see him kill his father. If she had only reset her alarm, then Dennis Quaid would have woken up on time. An intruder breaks through a door to get onto the roof. The Tilsons are a loving family that must work through normal conflicts, as well as unite to overcome extraordinary ones. So, how exactly did the horse die? A bumper sticker in the sheriffs office reads, Feel safe tonight. 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