But answer me this. 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. Design and text 1996 - 2023 Jon Sandys. Eventually the previous owner Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff). IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR I was hoping for a fright, and on this rewatching of the film, I found myself losing interest in the movie. If you are bored and have nothing else to do, why not. 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. Next week, a look back at Oliver Stones Nixon. He needs to get the Manor back for his father and his own mental sake, and he will do just about anything to do so. 4.6 out of 5 stars. 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. As they begin to make it their own, a series of events begin to occur that makes them believe that the former inhabitants are not yet gone. 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?" Cooper and his family sneak onto and then into the estate before they put an offer on it (meaning they're trespassing). Extreme 1 hr 58 min. So he convinces the Tilsons to hire him as a handyman. He and other characters consume beer, vodka and whiskey to excess. The intruder then tries to hit Cooper who blocks those attacks with a ladder. After Cooper asks what she did, she says she said yes, but that an emergency phone call prevented that from happening. Were they possibly thinking of doing maybe a revenge sequel? The other featurette, The Rules of the Game is where Mike Figgis proves he is completely unable to work in the Thriller genre. 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). We learn that a person killed his family sometime in the past and then see him kill his father. Dale has a bad attitude toward Cooper and his family and sets out to harass and get them out of his former house. About 50 profanities or obscenities, including f-words (17), s-words, exclamatory uses of Gods name and several harsh misuses of Jesus name. 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. 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. The intruder then tries to hit Cooper who blocks those attacks with a ladder. 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. SMOKING But no. After Jesse is almost killed in an automobile accident, Cooper decides it is time to get out of the city. function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} No, but everybody in the audience does. Cold Creek Manor: Thriller. Leah's boss offers to give her a promotion if she spends the night with him while on a business trip. Either that or he was struck with some form of mental retardation, which is really unfair because Ive seen movies in the thriller genre before with someone suffering from mental retardation that did much better then Quaid did in this movie. 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). DANA ESKELSON plays Ruby's sister, the local sheriff who drags her feet in taking action against Dale and uses some strong profanity. Burbank, CA 91521. Website: www.disney.com. When the movie was released, it opened in the fifth spot with a weekend take of just over $8 million dollars. At Bay Area theaters.) I just hope its the kind of movie families will actually be able to watch. PLOT: Topics ToTalk About It just doesnt make sense. 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. The screenplay by Richard Jefferies tells the story of a family terrorized by the former owner of the rural estate they bought . Phone: (818) 560-1000. A sudden sound might startle some viewers. An intruder terrorizes the Tilsons, chasing them through their blacked-out home, wielding a killing hammer (Im gonna bash your skulls in and throw you down The Devils Throat). A Blu-ray edition was released September 4, 2012.[11]. 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). Frightening/Tense Scenes Directed by Mike Figgis. Meanwhile, the more Cooper digs into the history of Cold Creek Manor, the more frightened he becomes for his familys safety. Cooper has a little bit of a bloody lip. At first it seems like everything is good. Coopers Documentary looked promising. The man's disjointed comments lead Cooper to believe Dale murdered his wife and children who have been missing for several years; Dale claims his wife fled with the children when he was imprisoned. He also calls a nurse, "You little bitch." Tense FamilyScenes Sharon Stone is awesome. Their two children attend private school. We briefly see Ruby kissing Dale while both lie on a bed, but he then sits up and nothing else happens. Other than that, enjoy Villains Wiki!!! Dale Massie is the main antagonist of the 2003 film Cold Creek Manor. The film stars Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, Stephen Dorff and Juliette Lewis.. Leah's boss offers to give her a promotion if she spends the night with him while on a business trip. "COLD CREEK MANOR" https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cold_Creek_Manor&oldid=1137724953, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles to be expanded from October 2022, Articles with empty sections from October 2022, Rotten Tomatoes template using name parameter, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 6 February 2023, at 03:45. Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. Its a hustle-bustle life, the pressures of which reach a crescendo when a near-miss in heavy traffic endangers one of the children. Extreme He has Polaroids of his topless, pubescent stepdaughter (glimpsed several times by moviegoers). A person pushes Leah down into a deep hole in the ground (she's okay). NY 10036. An extreme amount of suspenseful and ominous music plays in the film. Eventually the previous owner Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff) shows up and eventually begins to terrorize the Tilsons lives. We see video of a teenager in a bikini in a pool. [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. 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). Those scare scenes mostly took away from the film's rhythm and its more penetrating family drama story. Dale Massie is a scruffy, yet muscular ex-con who claims he has no hard feelings about losing his house to these city slickers. We see video of a teenager in a bikini in a pool. [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. He uses some profanity. He then tells Cooper that he should buy the next round for everyone there as a gesture of good will. PROFANITY Cooper is convinced that Dale is responsible, acting out of spite. 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. If you want to see a good Thriller, avoid Cold Creek Manor and go find a copy of Pacific Heights. *Moderate As they settle in, Cooper starts to research the previous owners, and eventually meets Dale, one of the former owners of their house. The Tilsons continue to live in Cold Creek Manor. Miscellaneous people have beer in a restaurant. 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. Instead the section turns out to be Figgis talking about having to film the movie as a movie, and the documentary parts as a documentary, and the home video parts as a home video. A person pushes Leah down into a deep hole in the ground (she's okay). Dale comments on Leah saying that he could have "f*cked" her anytime he asked. Again, why wasnt this clarified in the film? Trailer (2003) When documentary filmmaker Cooper Tilson and his wife Leah decide life in New York City has become unbearable, they and their children Kristen and Jesse move into a decaying mansion filled with the possessions of the previous family. We briefly see Ruby kissing Dale while both lie on a bed, but he then sits up and nothing else happens. He smokes a joint, uses strong profanity, smokes, has sex with Ruby and turns homicidal. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. Cooper drives home while a bit intoxicated shortly after drinking many shots of liquor. JULIETTE LEWIS plays his white trash girlfriend who has sex with him, uses strong profanity, is drunk, and briefly smokes. 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. That may have been the intention if the film had been successful, but as it lost money, any chance of a sequel became moot. The Tilsons hesitantly agree, but soon find things going downhill from there as Ray slowly start to show his true colors. He was trying to get better reception on his walkie talkie to alert the sheriff, and he didn't know the killer was in the area. Dennis Quaid as Cooper Tilson; Sharon Stone as Leah Tilson; Stephen Dorff as Dale Massie; Dana Eskelson as Sheriff Annie Ferguson; Juliette Lewis as Ruby; Christopher Plummer as Mr. Massie; Kristen Stewart as Kristen; Ryan Wilson as Jesse. Dealing with bullies and/or the psychotic. So they chuck it all. Written by Richard Jefferies. Ruby, who appears to be drunk, then joins him and orders several rounds of shots for the two of them. We see a rear view of Leah in her small panties as she gets out of bed. SHARON STONE plays his wife, an executive who wants to get their family out of harm's way when things get too precarious. A truck, presumably driven by Dale, chases after Cooper in his truck at night, through the woods and after both have been drinking. Moderate 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. [2] On Metacritic which assigns a weighted mean score the film has a score of 37 out of 100 based on 31 critics, indicating "generally negative reviews". The two then struggle and the intruder strikes Cooper and comments on the sound of a bone breaking. Figgis talking during a scene transition says Lets say this is a month later. Dale punches Ruby and then punches several people who try to restrain him. A photo shows a bare-breasted young woman while an older woman is seen in her panties. Turning it into their dream house soon becomes a living nightmare when the previous owner (Dorff) shows up, and a series of terrifying incidents lead them on a spine-tingling search for clues to the estate's dark and lurid past Leah Tilson (Sharon Stone) gets out of bed on a busy morning in New York City at 4:30am. [10], The film opened in 2,035 theaters in the United States on September 19, 2003, and grossed $8,190,574 in its opening weekend, ranking #5 at the box office, behind Underworld, Secondhand Lions, The Fighting Temptations and Once Upon a Time in Mexico. Musical stingers hit moments where nothing happens on screen, presumably to build tension, but instead creating an almost laughable effect. When Juliet Luis is cleaning the windshield in the beginning of the movie, she moves to the passenger side and wets the window. Cooper Tilson, his wife Leah and their two children, Kristen and Jesse, move from New York to the country after purchasing a mansion. The actors are talented, but they dont have much to work with. Maybe the family thought the horse got loose, or was out in a field overnight? Its a real fixer-upper with a dark past. Jesse makes a comment about a parental moment being "Miller Time." In Cold Creek Manor, documentary filmmaker Cooper Tilson (Dennis Quaid) and his corporate-bigwig wife, Leah (Sharon Stone), relocate their family from New York City to a dilapidated country estate previously owned by an ex-con, Dale (Stephen Dorff), with killer obliques.Sound familiar? We see several shots of Dale, sweaty and shirtless with his jeans riding down to expose the top of his underwear. Instead of finding a safer place, they buy Cold Creek Manor, an old beaten manor that they intend to turn into their dream home. Leah's boss offers to give her a promotion if she spends the night with him while on a business trip. When he is not spending time with his family, Bill can be found at the bottom of a lake . But COLD CREEK MANOR is definitely not a horror film. "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"). In Cold Creek Manor, a family tired of the noise, traffic and crime of the city decides to move to the country. All of this is eventually because the film never gives any solid idea of the passage of time. Dale is suspected of having murdered his own family in similar fashion. DVD. Some tense family material and imitative behavior is also present. Kristen is mad at her dad when she thinks he accidentally killed her pony. 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. Dale puffs away in nearly every scene. Why did the husband leave his wife alone in the woods, at night. The key player this time is Ruby (Juliette Lewis), Dale's battered girlfriend, whose sister is Sheriff Annie Ferguson (Dana Eskelson). After Cooper asks what she did, she says she said yes, but that an emergency phone call prevented that from happening. There are implied consequences to drunkenness when Cooper hits something with his car and his family doubts his ability to recall exactly what happened. 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). 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). Dale smokes a number of times, while Ruby smokes once and various miscellaneous characters smoke in several scenes. He talks about the rules of the genre, pacing, music, editing, etc. A few of them might have helped the movie a little more, such as in transitioning two confusing scenes and letting Dennis Quaids character get the upper hand for a moment. Leah is shown in her underwear. When Leah gets thrown into a deep hole, Cooper ignores his own safety and is single-minded about pulling her out. She and Cooper lower a video camera into the well and find the rotting corpses of Dale's wife and children. Instead of finding a safer place, they buy Cold Creek Manor, an old beaten manor that they intend to turn into their dream home. We see a photo of a boy holding a rifle. 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. Profanity What is the Japanese language plot outline for Cold Creek Manor (2003)? None The Tilsons are always leaving doors open even though they know terrible dangers lurk outside, and they are agonizingly slow to realize that Dale Massie is not only the wrong person to rehab their house, but the wrong person to be in the same state with. Privacy Statement and Terms of Use and Disclaimer An intruder breaks through a door to get onto the roof. 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). OUR WORD TO PARENTS: By entering this site you acknowledge to having read and agreed to the above conditions. Plot [ edit] Dale's father refers to Dale's mother as a "whore." We see an old drawing/picture of a man holding a knife to a child. Synopsis Leah Tilson (Sharon Stone) gets out of bed on a busy morning in New York City at 4:30am. The screenplay by Richard Jefferies tells the story of a family terrorized by the former owner of the rural estate they bought in foreclosure. 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. In rural Bellingham, they buy up the huge old Cold Creek Manor, which is going cheaply, and convert it into their dream house. Miscellaneous people drink in a bar where the owner offers to buy Cooper a drink. Hi. 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. If they're into suspense thrillers or are fans of someone in the cast, they just might. Dale shows up at the trailer of his trashy girlfriend, Ruby, and begins undressing her. 40. 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. 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. [7], Peter Travers of Rolling Stone rated the film one star and commented, "It's sad to see risk-taking director Mike Figgis do a generic thriller for a paycheck and then not even screw with the rules . We see several shots of Dale, sweaty and shirtless with his jeans riding down to expose the top of his underwear. 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. Kristen is mad at her dad when she thinks he accidentally killed her pony. It's implied that Cooper realizes what happened with Dale's family immediately after his own family left, and Dale attacked within the following 12 hours. Various clues, accompanied by portentous music, ominous winds, gathering clouds, etc., lead to the possibility that clues to Dale's crimes can be found at the bottom of an old well, and we are not disappointed in our expectation that Stone will sooner or later find herself at the bottom of that well. We see a photo of a teenager giving "the finger." Veronica Guerin (Special Edition) Cate Blanchett. Cooper races to look for him and finds him sitting on the street right in front of a stopped vehicle. [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. Extreme Especially the whole 'getting a dead horse into the pool while drunk' part. 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. A truck, presumably driven by Dale, chases after Cooper in his truck at night, through the woods and after both have been drinking. 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. As written by Richard Jefferies, the film is more or less a variation of his script for the 1992 black comedy . Starring Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone and Stephen Dorff. We later see that saying on a sign in a bar. Cooper is in a position to disable his rival without killing him during the films climax, but with Leahs blessing, he finishes the guy off, vigilante style. The film was shot on location in Cambridge, Kitchener, Ayr, Brougham and Toronto, Ontario. As they begin renovations, they discover their new home harbors a secret and may not be completely free of its former inhabitant. 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. 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. The Tilsons hesitantly agree, but soon find things going downhill from there as Ray slowly start to show his true colors. If I were Cooper Tilson, never would I befriend Dale. Think of the trouble it would be for one man, working alone, to kill a horse and dump it into a swimming pool. Which is illogical once you start thinking about it. Cooper agrees and we then see him and others drinking. Not to mention that hitting an animal the size of a horse would cause far more damage to the vehicle than a broken headlight. Cooper throws some large roof tiles at the intruder, with one striking him on the head, bloodying him. Unfortunately most of that content is mediocre and just acts as a reminder of how poor the movie really is. So, how exactly did the horse die? Guns/Weapons It stars Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone as husband and wife, they decided that life was too hectic in New York City and moved their family to the country. He grew up in Cold Creek Manor, with an abusive dad. When evil Dale Massie just stands there in the woods and doesn't push Cooper Tilson down the well, he stops being a killer and becomes an excuse for the movie to toy with us -- and it's always better when a thriller toys with the victims instead of the audience. Violence consists of several deaths (from smothering, a fall and unknown means), while attempts on others' lives also occurs. I thought that was incredible and must mean that Cold Creek Manorwas on its way to box office success. All rights reserved. Cooper then tries to rescue her (with a rope that she climbs), all while the assailant might be looming nearby. Cooper contacts Sheriff Ferguson, unaware Dale has attacked and disabled her and she is unconscious in her office. Kristen finds a piece of wood with the word "evil" on it and is then surprised by her brother. The next shot she is talking to Sharon Stone and the windshield is dry. 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. Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback. CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER plays Dale's cantankerous and mean father who's institutionalized in a nursing home. Coopers quick trip to the corner store turns into an unscheduled drinking binge at the adjacent bar. 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. Meanwhile, Dale visits his father and smothers him to death when he insults him and reveals his knowledge of Dale's crimes. GUNS/WEAPONS 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. He dumped them down into "The Devil's Throat," which is a well in the woods. Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. Sleep with a cop. [Spoiler Warning] Early on, Leah is propositioned by a business colleague to spend the night together. SUMMARY: In COLD CREEK MANOR, a family thinks they're getting away from New York City and entering a quiet haven in their new mansion in the boonies, but when the creepy former homeowner shows up and strange things start happening, the family must quickly figure out some long . It's the sort of movie that makes dumb guys like me feel smart. Heres how it works. He is a psychopath who threatened to kill the Tilson family who moved to Dale's old home. He gazes lustfully at Leah. After purchasing an abandoned manor and all of its contents through a bank foreclosure, the Tilson's begin to restore the grand home. They then try to get away from the intruder through the dark house. Remember the abstract passing of time I mentioned before? COLD CREEK MANOR is a heart-pounding thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat in tension-filled suspense. Dale's wife and children's remains are recovered and then entombed in the family graveyard at Cold Creek Manor, as are his own. 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). KRISTEN STEWART plays the Tilsons' moody teenage daughter who doesn't like Dale from the get-go. A family relocates from the city to a dilapidated house in the country that was once a grand estate. Quaid starred in a similar film in 2019 called. In classic Hollywood ending style the Tilson's defeated him and eventually killed him but like I said the final battle scene was too quick and short for me. New York, 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. Cooper and his family sneak onto and then into the estate before they put an offer on it (meaning they're trespassing). 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. Basically its a featurette that makes a big deal out of something thats common sense and shouldnt have taken much artistic skill to pull off. That movie isnt perfect by a long shot, but it throttled back where Cold Creek Manor goes overboard. 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. We see a photo of a teenager giving "the finger.". 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). Every part he has, Plummer makes it exciting, and whether he has a few scenes or the whole movie, I am captivated by his performance. If she had only reset her alarm, then Dennis Quaid would have woken up on time. We learn that a person killed his family sometime in the past and then see him kill his father. The noise. One day the former owner shows up and makes himself at home. 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