Cooper drives home while a bit intoxicated shortly after drinking many shots of liquor. He grew up in Cold Creek Manor, with an abusive dad. Box office. NY 10036. IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR 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. Maybe the family thought the horse got loose, or was out in a field overnight? Two people clothesline a third with a rope that they then use to tie him down to a skylight. 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). 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. 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. 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. We see video of a teenager in a bikini in a pool. He hits a deer with his car. Extreme ALCOHOL OR DRUG USE 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. However, dont go out of your way to check in at Cold Creek Manor. Dale is suspected of having murdered his own family in similar fashion. 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. Hi. Thank you for signing up to CinemaBlend. 153 offers from $1.51. The couple who own the local diner extend a warm welcome to their new neighbors. [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. He gazes lustfully at Leah. 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. Cooper then tries to rescue her (with a rope that she climbs), all while the assailant might be looming nearby. He has a good grasp of what the rules are, which makes it all the more baffling that the film doesnt follow any of them. Think of the trouble it would be for one man, working alone, to kill a horse and dump it into a swimming pool. He also suffocates his bedridden father. Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. Ruby tells her sister, the sheriff, that she fell (instead of admitting that Dale punched her). It's the sort of movie that makes dumb guys like me feel smart. A babbling old man threatens to whip his son bloody. DANA ESKELSON plays Ruby's sister, the local sheriff who drags her feet in taking action against Dale and uses some strong profanity. Dale punches Ruby and then punches several people who try to restrain him. This only makes things worse, though the Tilsons cant provide the local sheriff with enough hard evidence to prove anything. Cooper Tilson and his family decide to relocate from the big city to a small town away from the hustle and bustle of the metropolis existence. 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. 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. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. 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. One character briefly smokes a joint. Dale, recently released from prison, initially appears to be a good, kind worker. Cooper ends up hitting a deer during that. Quaid starred in a similar film in 2019 called. Leah wants to give Dale the benefit of the doubt when suspicions about him arise, and later apologizes to her husband for doubting his instincts. Kristen is mad at her dad when she thinks he accidentally killed her pony. Eskelsons rsum may not be as extensive as those of her co-stars, but thats sure to change. 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. They buy a decaying mansion that was in foreclosure and began to restore it into their dream home. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. Cold Creek Manor gets a 1 Reelrating. JumpScenes DISRESPECTFUL/BAD ATTITUDE He killed his wife and two children because they were going to leave him. Starring Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone and Stephen Dorff. Kristen is mad at her dad when she thinks he accidentally killed her pony. We see a pool of blood on the floor next to a person. Old Mr. Massie prattles on about his late wifes promiscuity and calls Dale the corrupt spawn of your whoring mother. Dale says his own wife had an active social life as well. He smokes a joint, uses strong profanity, smokes, has sex with Ruby and turns homicidal. You can help Villains Wiki by expanding it. They find a sprawling run down large old house in the boonies of a small town. He also calls a nurse, "You little bitch.". Ruby, who appears to be drunk, then joins him and orders several rounds of shots for the two of them. Also, the cast is solid. It just doesnt make sense. 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. Leah and Cooper have a 13-year-old daughter named Kristen (Kristen Stewart) and a 12-year-old son named Jesse (Ryan Wilson). We see an old drawing/picture of a man holding a knife to a child. Cooper drives home while a bit intoxicated shortly after drinking many shots of liquor. Minor Cooper and Leah argue about their situation. He is a psychopath who threatened to kill the Tilson family who moved to Dale's old home. Again, why wasnt this clarified in the film? 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). This article is a stub and is in need of expansion. Dale puffs away in nearly every scene. 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. 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. About 50 profanities or obscenities, including f-words (17), s-words, exclamatory uses of Gods name and several harsh misuses of Jesus name. 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] . A sudden sound might startle some viewers. Cooper drives home while a bit intoxicated shortly after drinking many shots of liquor. That movie isnt perfect by a long shot, but it throttled back where Cold Creek Manor goes overboard. Afraid for his family's safety, Cooper sends them back to stay in the city while he attempts to gather more evidence to incriminate Dale. 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 . 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). Leah hears her kids screaming near the pool and races there to discover a snake in it (that Dale has captured and it isn't poisonous). So he convinces the Tilsons to hire him as a handyman. Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. 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. CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER plays Dale's cantankerous and mean father who's institutionalized in a nursing home. Profanity The next shot she is talking to. So, how exactly did the horse die? (2003) (Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone) (R) CAST AS ROLE MODELS: Apparently, Christopher Plummer only spent two days on set filming. They then try to get away from the intruder through the dark house. Dale Massie is the killer. We see a photo of a teenager giving "the finger." Starring: Dennis Quaid, Christopher Plummer, Sharon Stone, Kristen Stewart, Juliette Lewis, Stephen Dorff, Dana Eskelson, Ryan Wilson. Dale Massie is the main antagonist of the 2003 film Cold Creek Manor. Miscellaneous people drink in a bar where the owner offers to buy Cooper a drink. A truck, presumably driven by Dale, chases after Cooper in his truck at night, through the woods and after both have been drinking. One with Quaid and the other with Dorff. Rated R SMOKING 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. 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. Cooper throws some large roof tiles at the intruder, with one striking him on the head, bloodying him. 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. "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"). A bumper sticker in the sheriffs office reads, Feel safe tonight. . Dale says that he hasn't seen his kids since his wife left with them some time ago. He only stops when the sheriff aims her gun at him. [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". 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. We see a rear view of Leah in her small panties as she gets out of bed. A family moves from New York into an old mansion in the countryside, still filled with the previous owner's things. Later that night as a storm approaches, Leah returns to the house alone, having been informed by the children the location of a deep well on the property, called the Devil's Throat. Cooper (DENNIS QUAID) and Leah Tilson (SHARON STONE) have decided to give up the city life of New York for the countryside of Bellingham. The noise. 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. It holds a 12% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 111 reviews, with an average rating of 3.8/10. The implication being that he hit the horse with the car. This isn't a movie, it's channel surfing". Curious if this title is entertaining, any good, and/or has any artistic merit? Those scare scenes mostly took away from the film's rhythm and its more penetrating family drama story. 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. Accordingly, he turns from friendly and helpful to increasingly volatile and dangerous. Miscellaneous people drink in a bar where the owner offers to buy Cooper a drink. We see the point of view of someone approaching Cooper. [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 . A man smothers another man in a nursing home. Plot After their young son is nearly run over in the street, Cooper and Leah Tilson decide to give up high-flying careers in New York City and move to the countryside. Cooper's phone line suddenly goes dead. So he fires him. Heavy All rights reserved. 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. Unfortunately most of that content is mediocre and just acts as a reminder of how poor the movie really is. DVD. Dale then sits next to Cooper and similarly orders several shots of liquor, resulting in Cooper being a bit inebriated. In one scene, a persons bludgeoned body twitches in a pool of blood (viewers are spared the homicidal act itself). Ruby, who appears to be drunk, then joins him and orders several rounds of shots for the two of them. The Tilsons continue to live in Cold Creek Manor. Theres an obscene gesture. 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. 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. If I were Cooper Tilson, never would I befriend Dale. An intruder breaks through a door to get onto the roof. 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. So they chuck it all. FRIGHTENING SCENES 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. The scene where she claims she wasn't hit, she only fell, is the most perfunctory demonstration possible of the battered woman in denial. (R. 119 minutes. That may have been the intention if the film had been successful, but as it lost money, any chance of a sequel became moot. SEX/NUDITY Leah's boss offers to give her a promotion if she spends the night with him while on a business trip. 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. 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. Smoking 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. Cold Creek Manor is meant to be a creepy thriller, which isnt that creepy, nor scary. 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. Which is illogical once you start thinking about it. It is in anamorphic widescreen format with audio tracks in English and French, and subtitles in Spanish. Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. 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? We see some small photos of a teenager showing her bare breasts. It's presumed it was hit by a car, had its head bludgeoned (as happened to Dale's family) or had its throat slit. A person has blood on their face. After Cooper asks what she did, she says she said yes, but that an emergency phone call prevented that from happening. When the movie was released, it opened in the fifth spot with a weekend take of just over $8 million dollars. 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. Its great to see an average husband and wifewith a little help from the kidsteaming up to thwart a home-wrecker. As they begin renovations, they discover their new home harbors a secret and may not be completely free of its former inhabitant. Then read OUR TAKE of this film. 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. We see several shots of Dale, sweaty and shirtless with his jeans riding down to expose the top of his underwear. . 1996-2022 Screen It, Inc. DENNIS QUAID plays a documentary filmmaker who becomes somewhat obsessed with discovering the secret behind the manor and its former inhabitants. But answer me this. 4.6 out of 5 stars. 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. 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). What? But he has made a thriller that thrills us only if we abandon all common sense. A person pushes Leah down into a deep hole in the ground (she's okay). Or what? Were they possibly thinking of doing maybe a revenge sequel? No, but everybody in the audience does. Sleep with a cop. [Spoiler Warning] Early on, Leah is propositioned by a business colleague to spend the night together. 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. 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. Where the hell did the killer go after pushing the wife down the well? The pollution. 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. Kristen Stewart was nominated for a Young Artist Award for her performance in the film. Dale Massie is the killer. Parents, get practical information from a biblical worldview to help guide media decisions for your kids! He uses some profanity. Burbank, CA 91521. Heavy The husband was trying to get better cell reception, so he wasn't near the well when his wife was shoved in. $29.1 million [1] 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. All Rights Reserved, Cooper cuts off a poisonous snake's head (with brief and slightly bloody results). His girlfriend, Ruby (JULIETTE LEWIS), tells Cooper to watch his back, but her sister, Sheriff Ferguson (DANA ESKELSON), doesn't initially seem able or willing to help. No one in this movie has a shred of common sense. Dale then sits next to Cooper and similarly orders several shots of liquor, resulting in Cooper being a bit inebriated. Eventually the previous owner Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff) shows up and eventually begins to terrorize the Tilsons lives. There are a few deleted scenes, most of which deserved to be deleted. The screenplay by Richard Jefferies tells the story of a family terrorized by the former owner of the rural estate they bought in foreclosure. It looks like the previous occupants bugged out in a big hurry, too, as they left everything behind, including personal. When we finally saw the film a week later, I left the theatre disappointed. During an altercation, Ruby pushes Leah backwards. We learn that a person killed his family sometime in the past and then see him kill his father. Cooper ends up hitting a deer during that. We later see that saying on a sign in a bar. One character briefly smokes a joint. 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. 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. Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. Hes just looking to get back on his feet. OUR WORD TO PARENTS: Synopsis Leah Tilson (Sharon Stone) gets out of bed on a busy morning in New York City at 4:30am. Wanting to simplify their lives, the Tilsons decide to buy a recently repossessed mansion out in the country. Dale Massie is the main antagonist of the 2003 film Cold Creek Manor. Moderate The site's consensus states: "The plot of Cold Creek Manor is too predictable and contrived to generate suspense". Cold Creek Manor is a psychological thriller that came out in 2003. Cold Creek Manor: Thriller. An extreme amount of suspenseful and ominous music plays in the film. He's just looking to get back on his feet. 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