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Cold Creek Manor

Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 31 critic reviews
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Based on 19 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama | Suspense/Thriller
Written by: Richard Jefferies
Directed by: Mike Figgis
Release Date:
Theatrical: September 19, 2003
DVD: March 2, 2004
Running Time: 110 minutes, Color
Origin: USA / Canada
Summary
RATING: R for violence, language and some sexuality
Starring Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, Stephen Dorff, Juliette Lewis, Kristen Stewart, Ryan Wilson, Dana Eskelson, and Christopher Plummer
Escaping from the hustle-and-bustle of city life, the Tilsons (Quaid, Stone) pack up their kids and all of their possessions and move into a recently repossessed mansion in the sticks of New York State. All's well until a series of terrifying incidents at the house lead the Tilsons to wonder who used to live in their new home -- and to discover what dark secrets are hidden inside. (Touchstone Pictures)
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What The Critics Said
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The New York Times Stephen Holden
The movie ultimately belongs to Mr. Dorff, whose villain is as frightening as any human reptile to have slithered onto the screen in quite some time.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
A lightweight popcorn movie, hardly the scariest of the year but with enough jolts to be satisfying. Writer Richard Jefferies' solid script emphasizes character and psychology over plot and provides Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone with engaging, multidimensional starring roles.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
The film is a disquieting and often very funny examination of yuppie unease in the country. The problem is, it's disguised as a dopey suspense thriller.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Robert K. Elder
Perhaps Figgis proves his unconventionality with Cold Creek Manor after all, creating a thriller without resorting to the genre's usual bag of tricks.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
The journey, however, is a hollow one, since Quaid and Stone, for all their efforts, never really do seem married. Perhaps that's because Stone, with her dry-ice charisma, does everything that an actress should except connect to whomever she happens to be facing on screen.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
A woefully predictable imperiled-yuppie-family-under-siege suspenser that hardly seems worth the attention of its relatively high-profile participants.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
Feels very nicely made, at least until it falls apart: By its midpoint, you start to recognize that it has acute creepy-thrilleritis, which means that it promises us some things at the beginning that it has no intention of actually following up on.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann
As haunted-house thrillers go, Cold Creek Manor is more ludicrous than the average but at the same time more handsomely produced.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Figgis brings strong visual imagination to the first hour, but he can't rescue Richard Jefferies's screenplay from plot holes bigger than the manor itself.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
Will leave audiences yawning rather than gasping from fear.
Read Full Review >Slate David Edelstein
The first hour is evocative and creepy...But once the trajectory is clear and the squeamish New York intellectual Quaid has to stand up and fight for his homestead, the boringness seeps into you like the damp.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Marc Mohan
Cobbled together from other sources without much thought to originality.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
Most of the publicity for Cold Creek Manor seems to imply that it's an occult thriller, specifically a Stephen King-ish haunted house movie. But no. This is a severe case of mistaken identity: In fact, there's not a supernatural bone in the movie's body.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
All of which would be fine if Figgis managed to work up any real suspense, but the film slogs towards its inevitable mano-a-mano showdown like something up to its knees in mud.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
It takes forever to get moving, but when it finally does, the Quaid and Stone characters still seem ill defined.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
In one of the most laughable confrontations between humanity and nature since Elisha Cuthbert stared down the cougar on "24," Quaid's family runs amok in the house, as each member simultaneously discovers a carefully placed snake meant to scare them off the property, almost as if the snakes were working off a timer system. The film never recovers.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Rick Kisonak
Figgis has spent too many years crafting thoughtful, innovative films to have much of a knack for storytelling this mechanical and many are the moments when he does indeed seem to have been asleep behind the wheel.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Scott Foundas
Cold Creek Manor's prime reason for being seems to be a set piece involving poisonous snakes, directed by Figgis with a drunken gusto the rest of the film could use, and as a comeback vehicle for Stone, who tries hard at motherly warmth, but can't quite wash the Catherine Tramell out of her hair.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
The most disturbing aspect of Cold Creek Manor -- a predictable, disjointed "Cape Fear" knockoff -- is that a script this disjointed and unoriginal could actually get the Hollywood green light.
Read Full Review >Premiere Laine Ewen
Clunky and riddled with clichés from start to finish, which is a shame because the cast is able and is led by Oscar-nominated director Mike Figgis.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
[Figgis] has made a thriller that thrills us only if we abandon all common sense. 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.
Read Full Review >New York Post Jonathan Foreman
Richard Jeffries' script tosses together bits of plot borrowed from such "bad things happen when you leave the city" classics as "Straw Dogs" and "Deliverance" without any awareness of how or why genre conventions work.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Reilly Capps
This movie isn't a thriller, it's an insomnia killer.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Ed Park
CCM's dissipated endgame borrows soggily from "The Ring," resulting in something that wouldn't make it past the first script meeting for Scary Movie 4.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
It's sad to see risk-taking director Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas, Hotel) do a generic thriller for a paycheck and then not even screw with the rules.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Kevin Carr
Figgis is clueless on how to make a thriller. He falls into all the traps of a first-time suspense director, and he can't help but focus on all the depressing faults of the shockingly dull characters.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
It's discouraging to witness a filmmaker who clearly yearns for the indie world yield to the temptations of mindless movie manufacturing. At least Figgis made it as soulless as possible.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
A gothic thriller called Cold Creek Manor extrudes an 80-minute idea -- I may be overgenerous here -- into 118 minutes that feel like an eternity.
What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.2 (out of 10) based on 19 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Mel ancholicAlcoholic gave it a2:
This was the first movie I watched and wondered: What was the point of this? There was no point, the story tells nothing new, or surprising, it was like all actors thought: "Hey, you know what I got some time to kill, the first 2 weeks of May, lets make a run-of-the-mill thriller". Or whatever. Waste of good actors like Lewis and Dorff.
Brian A. gave it a3:
Why was this made. There was no point to this. the chick was kinda hot, but that was it. Story had no surprises what soever.
Truja S. gave it a10:
An underrated MASTERPIECE. One of the Greatest Thrillers of all time. My SECOND favourite movie ever. Acting was AWESOME; Kristen Stewart did a PERFECT (and when i says PERFECT i mean PERFECT) performance, Dennis Quaid is pretty damn good, and Sharon Stone - Stephen Dorff did an excellent work. The plot is amazing. The Original Soundtrack is really, really, really good, and fits with the movie perfectly. The 'Camera-Work' is a 'Profesional-Work'. Cast was GRAWESOME, with Kristen Stewart, Dennis Quaid, Stephen Dorff, Sharon Stone, Juliette Lewis and Christopher Plummer. If you didn't see this movie, your life isn't complete. It deserves to be on the top 10 of Horror movies. 97/100
Morgan I. gave it a10:
It was good. The music needed some work.
Abby l gave it a7:
Stephen Dorff is the only thing that made me like this movie. He was going to kill off all the main characters and that made me happy.
tony s. gave it a0:
I want those 2 hours of my life back! Biggest waste of time, ever!
Cameron S. gave it a 7:
Pretty Interesting movie. I thought Stephen Dorff did a great job as the villian and I thought he was convincing. Dennis Quaid was good and same with Sharon Stone who was really awful in Catwoman. This movie delivers some scares and I really liked some of the camra angles the director used. I thought that was pretty cool. Overall, its an entertaining flick. Cheers!
