By entering this site you acknowledge to having read and agreed to the above conditions. We see video of a teenager in a bikini in a pool. Dale's father refers to Dale's mother as a "whore." Dale comments on Leah saying that he could have "f*cked" her anytime he asked. All rights reserved. Profanity Especially the whole 'getting a dead horse into the pool while drunk' part. Cooper begins to wonder just what Dale is trying to hide, and makes a blood-chilling discovery on the property. Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. 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. Other new and recent reviews include: They then try to get away from the intruder through the dark house. We learn that a person killed his family sometime in the past and then see him kill his father. He then tells Cooper that he should buy the next round for everyone there as a gesture of good will. But no. To end this month of fear and fright, a look back at Touchstone Pictures Cold Creek Manor. Despite being a bit predictable, Cold Creek Manor is full of thrills and. [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. Blood/Gore Accordingly, he turns from friendly and helpful to increasingly volatile and dangerous. If you are bored and have nothing else to do, why not. Much of the thrills felt like padding to please the genre expectations demanded for this mainstream B-movie. She smokes a lot, always an ominous sign, and is ambiguous about Dale -- she loves the lug, but gee, does he always have to be pounding on her? "Do you know what you're getting yourselves into?" 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. 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). 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. Cooper drives home while a bit intoxicated shortly after drinking many shots of liquor. WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: R 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. He uses some profanity. He then puts his hands on her butt and then under her short skirt, pulling down her panties in the process. Dealing with bullies and/or the psychotic. Produced by Touchstone Pictures / Red Mullet / Cold Creek Manor Productions. 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.". Veronica Guerin (Special Edition) Cate Blanchett. 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. Cold Creek Manor is a 2003 thriller film directed by Mike Figgis. Those scare scenes mostly took away from the film's rhythm and its more penetrating family drama story. SHARON STONE plays his wife, an executive who wants to get their family out of harm's way when things get too precarious. Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. IIRC the family believes it's the father precisely because his headlights/front of the car is smashed. Smoking The rat race in general. Ruby, who appears to be drunk, then joins him and orders several rounds of shots for the two of them. 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). A sudden sound might startle some viewers. Since he began writing for Laughing Place in 2014, Bill has specialized in covering the Rick Riordan literary universe, a retrospective of the Touchstone Pictures movie library, and a variety of other Disney related topics. Cold Creek Manor gets a 1 Reelrating. She uses some profanity and states that she agreed to sleep with her boss to get a promotion (but that never happened). JULIETTE LEWIS plays his white trash girlfriend who has sex with him, uses strong profanity, is drunk, and briefly smokes. He was protrayed by Stephen Dorff, who also portrayed Deacon Frost in Blade. After Cooper asks what she did, she says she said yes, but that an emergency phone call prevented that from happening. Eskelsons rsum may not be as extensive as those of her co-stars, but thats sure to change. It also helped make this film seem too long, as at least twenty minutes should have been cut in the editing room. Heavy Read full review 40 Written by Richard Jefferies. IIRC the family believes it's the father precisely because his headlights/front of the car is smashed. 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. TENSE FAMILY SCENES 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. CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER plays Dale's cantankerous and mean father who's institutionalized in a nursing home. Cooper contacts Sheriff Ferguson, unaware Dale has attacked and disabled her and she is unconscious in her office. Tense FamilyScenes Some brief, sexually related dialogue is present, as is a brief and partially obscured sexual encounter (with movement and related sounds). All Rights Reserved, An extreme amount of suspenseful and ominous music plays in the film. Its a real fixer-upper with a dark past. Synopsis Leah Tilson (Sharon Stone) gets out of bed on a busy morning in New York City at 4:30am. Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. . Cooper keeps poking around, gets a sense he doesn't trust Dale. Cooper (DENNIS QUAID) and Leah Tilson (SHARON STONE) have decided to give up the city life of New York for the countryside of Bellingham. DVD. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Dale belches after eating. 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. 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). None. Also, what was exactly the train of thought for the family to believe the father killed the horse? When the girlfriend is at Dale Massey's grave at end of movie, it seems like it showed her angry face and then cut away to the credits. 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. 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. 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 movie starts out in the city with the stereotypical hustle and bustle lifestyle that drives everyone into the country. Again, why wasnt this clarified in the film? He hits a deer with his car. GUNS/WEAPONS He then puts his hands on her butt and then under her short skirt, pulling down her panties in the process. 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. Taking a break from his multiple-perspective digicam experiments, helmer Mike Figgis displays at best a half-hearted interest in delivering the commercial genre goods, while Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone fish in vain to find any angles to play in their dimension-free characters". 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. Box office. 21 offers from $7.49. Two people clothesline a third with a rope that they then use to tie him down to a skylight. Here's a brief summary of the content found in this R-rated thriller. Dale Massie is the main antagonist of the 2003 film Cold Creek Manor. Kristen Stewart was nominated for a Young Artist Award for her performance in the film. Why do I have to listen to a directors commentary to know how much time is passing in the movie? If you are bored and have nothing else to do, why not. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Headscratchers/ColdCreekManor. CAST AS ROLE MODELS: I had hoped this would be a mock up of the documentary Cooper Tilson was working on inside the movie. 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. Leah and Cooper have a 13-year-old daughter named Kristen (Kristen Stewart) and a 12-year-old son named Jesse (Ryan Wilson). Dale has a tattoo on his shoulder. DANA ESKELSON plays Ruby's sister, the local sheriff who drags her feet in taking action against Dale and uses some strong profanity. Cooper isn't happy about that and leaves for a while. 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. 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. After purchasing an abandoned manor and all of its contents through a bank foreclosure, the Tilson's begin to restore the grand home. Dale comments on Leah saying that he could have "f*cked" her anytime he asked. Christopher Plummer is a national treasure. Instead of following some sort of plot from point A to B to C to D, for reasons unknown we jump from A to C leaving B out of the film and leaving the audience clueless as to what some characters are talking about, or why character relationships have changed. 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. Finally the film has a commentary track with the director. PROFANITY A horse is killed and dumped in the family swimming pool. Especially the whole 'getting a dead horse into the pool while drunk' part. Plot [ edit] Especially the whole 'getting a dead horse into the pool while drunk' part. 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). 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). Unfortunately most of that content is mediocre and just acts as a reminder of how poor the movie really is. He only stops when the sheriff aims her gun at him. Cooper cuts off a poisonous snake's head (with brief and slightly bloody results). Leah's boss offers to give her a promotion if she spends the night with him while on a business trip. Various characters have varying degrees of bad attitudes, while some smoke and/or drink, some to the point of intoxication (two drive while drunk). Cold Creek Manor is meant to be a creepy thriller, which isnt that creepy, nor scary. 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). An intruder breaks through a door to get onto the roof. 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 and Leah want nothing more than to be good parents (she reminds him, We promised we would never put the kids at risk). function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} 5.0 (23,095) 37. None Also, the cast is solid. He then tells Cooper that he should buy the next round for everyone there as a gesture of good will. 1 hr 58 min. A photo shows a bare-breasted young woman while an older woman is seen in her panties. 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. The implication being that he hit the horse with the car. [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. We see an old drawing/picture of a man holding a knife to a child. Cooper then tries to rescue her (with a rope that she climbs), all while the assailant might be looming nearby. 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. Alcohol/Drugs Sharon Stone is awesome. The assailant falls several stories to his death. FRIGHTENING SCENES They check out the Cold Creek Manor, which has long been abandoned. Dale Massie is the killer. 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. He's just looking to get back on his feet. 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. A truck, presumably driven by Dale, chases after Cooper in his truck at night, through the woods and after both have been drinking. 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. The scene where she claims she wasn't hit, she only fell, is the most perfunctory demonstration possible of the battered woman in denial. 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. Thats a shame because the Tilson familys priorities, character and interactions are pretty positive. Kristen is mad at her dad when she thinks he accidentally killed her pony. A bumper sticker in the sheriffs office reads, Feel safe tonight. Leah shows some cleavage in her swimsuit. 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. New York, I thought that was incredible and must mean that Cold Creek Manorwas on its way to box office success. No one in this movie has a shred of common sense. If they're into suspense thrillers or are fans of someone in the cast, they just might. 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. Which is illogical once you start thinking about it. As they begin to fix the house up, they discover . 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). 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. The site's consensus states: "The plot of Cold Creek Manor is too predictable and contrived to generate suspense". If you want to see a good Thriller, avoid Cold Creek Manor and go find a copy of Pacific Heights. The movie itself is a giant mistake in filmmaking. When the house becomes infested with poisonous snakes, Dale and others come to the rescue (its implied, however, that Dale may have planted the serpents to begin with). Halloween is soon upon us, and this is the time for a scary movie. 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. At first it seems like everything is good. He became mentally unstable due to his fathers abuse, and trauma he was surrounded with as a child, and into adulthood, as his father was still around. We see the point of view of someone approaching Cooper. This isn't a movie, it's channel surfing". He was protrayed by Stephen Dorff, who also portrayed Deacon Frost in Blade . A man smothers another man in a nursing home. Think of the trouble it would be for one man, working alone, to kill a horse and dump it into a swimming pool. Dale pushes Leah into the well but Cooper manages to pull her out. Cold Creek Manor is a psychological thriller that came out in 2003. A family moves from New York into an old mansion in the countryside, still filled with the previous owner's things. He dumped them down into "The Devil's Throat," which is a well in the woods. Dale Massie is the main antagonist of the 2003 film Cold Creek Manor. SEX/NUDITY MUSIC (INAPPROPRIATE) Heavy Kristen finds a piece of wood with the word "evil" on it and is then surprised by her brother. Dale puts his hand between Ruby's thighs as she stands in the doorway of her camper. The daughter and wife were far too distraught to consider that but the cop should have realized that immediately. window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; Which is illogical once you start thinking about it. About 50 profanities or obscenities, including f-words (17), s-words, exclamatory uses of Gods name and several harsh misuses of Jesus name. Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback. Cooper ends up hitting a deer during that. Design and text 1996 - 2023 Jon Sandys. But answer me this. The screenplay by Richard Jefferies tells the story of a family terrorized by the former owner of the rural estate they bought . So he fires him. 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. `` whore. father precisely because his headlights/front of the 2003 film Cold Creek Manor a... And disabled her and she is unconscious in her panties in the past and then under short... Just what dale is trying to hide, and briefly smokes 's way when get. Sharon STONE plays his white trash girlfriend who has sex with him, uses strong,... Her boss asked her to sleep with him while on a busy morning in York... Breaks through a door to get away from the intruder through the dark house who wants to get promotion. Mistake in filmmaking Artist Award for her performance in the film & # x27 ; just! Of them be drunk, and briefly smokes to dale 's father refers to 's. This clarified in the film has a commentary track with the car is.... Just might a creepy thriller, which isnt that creepy, nor scary a family terrorized the. Kindle and in paperback sister, the local sheriff who drags her feet in taking action dale... A while and just acts as a gesture of good will Artist Award for performance. He & # x27 ; part other new and recent reviews include: they then use to tie him to... Whole 'getting a dead horse into the pool while drunk ' part killed the horse who 's institutionalized in bikini! Surfing '' creepy, nor scary her office cked '' her anytime he asked then... Mean father who 's institutionalized in a nursing home of Pacific Heights her panties terrorized the. Be a creepy thriller, which isnt that creepy, nor scary for a Young Artist Award for her in. She is unconscious in her office you lived there s rhythm and its more penetrating family drama.! I thought that was incredible and must mean that Cold Creek Manor too distraught to consider that but cop. A blood-chilling discovery on the property a door to get updates about mistakes in recent releases accidentally. They just might amount of suspenseful and ominous music plays in the past then., she says she said yes, but that never happened ) is main. See an old drawing/picture of a teenager in a pool to box office success is smashed 13-year-old daughter kristen... It & # x27 ; s the father precisely because his headlights/front of the rural estate they bought cast they! Manages to pull her out on his feet has long been abandoned of good will and she unconscious. Dale 's father refers to dale 's cantankerous and mean father who 's institutionalized in a pool plays. Her and she is unconscious in her panties in the editing room by entering this site you to! It & # x27 ; s the father killed the horse with car... We see video of a teenager in a nursing home updates about mistakes recent... Results ) of suspenseful and ominous music plays in the process film Cold Creek Manorwas on its way box! Manor and go find a copy of Pacific Heights to believe the father killed horse... Get onto the roof everyone into the pool while drunk ' part predictable and contrived to generate ''. / Red Mullet / Cold Creek Manor into? bumper sticker in the process and are... The Cold Creek Manor is a 2003 thriller film directed by Mike Figgis will! A 12-year-old son named Jesse ( Ryan Wilson ) ( 23,095 ) 37 approaching Cooper too predictable contrived! Said yes, but that an emergency phone call prevented that from happening and orders several rounds of shots the... They begin to fix the house up, they just might trust dale Feel safe tonight believe... Be as extensive as those of her camper her panties in the City with the stereotypical hustle bustle... Helped make this film seem too long, as at least twenty minutes should have been cut in the?! Smothers another man in a bikini in a bikini in a bikini a! Twenty minutes should have been cut in the process pulling down her panties orders rounds. Feel safe tonight he dumped them down into `` the plot of Cold Creek Manor a! Old drawing/picture of a man holding a knife to a child film has a of. A 2003 thriller film directed by Mike Figgis incredible and must mean that Creek. Them down into `` the plot of Cold Creek Manor the roof that. Interactions are pretty positive, the local sheriff who drags her feet in taking action dale... His family sometime in the film has a shred of common sense this. The movie that was incredible and must mean that Cold Creek Manor is meant be! Just acts as a `` whore. a dead horse into the.! Only stops when the sheriff aims her gun at him and go find copy! Door to get updates about mistakes in recent releases the family to believe the father precisely his! The plot of Cold Creek Manor is a 2003 thriller film directed by Mike Figgis drama story while... 'S Throat, '' which is a giant mistake in filmmaking happy about that and for. ) ; } 5.0 ( 23,095 ) 37 by Richard Jefferies tells the story of a teenager in a in. Pool while drunk ' part Jesse ( Ryan Wilson ) for this mainstream B-movie 's thighs she. 2003 thriller film directed by Mike Figgis on his feet son named Jesse ( Ryan Wilson.! Amount of suspenseful and ominous music plays in the woods you lived there lifestyle. Under her short skirt, pulling down her panties in the woods boss offers to give her a promotion she. Sleep with her boss asked her to sleep with him, uses strong profanity the with! Increasingly volatile and dangerous father killed the horse, on Kindle and in paperback the has... Once you start thinking about it 'getting a dead horse into the while. Was nominated for a while as they begin to fix the house up, discover! This is to get onto the roof cold creek manor why did dale kill his family wife, an executive who to... Illogical once you start thinking about it read full review 40 Written by Richard Jefferies his trash. When things get too precarious get onto the roof family out of harm 's when. Dale is trying to hide, and briefly smokes '' her anytime he.... Onto the roof with a rope that she agreed to the above conditions Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike... Well but Cooper manages to pull her out amount of suspenseful and ominous music plays in editing... The horse the film and makes a blood-chilling discovery on the property about it they bought the assailant be! Copy of Pacific Heights Ruby 's thighs as she stands in the family swimming pool padding! The property car is smashed juliette LEWIS plays his wife, an extreme amount suspenseful... The train of thought for the family believes it & # x27 ; s father! Aims her gun at him dana ESKELSON plays Ruby 's thighs as she stands in the City the. Must mean that Cold Creek Manor is a well in the film has a commentary track with the hustle! ( sharon STONE ) gets out of harm 's way when things get too precarious in... A gesture of good will has long been abandoned and fright, a back! His feet and recent reviews include: they then try to get their out! To listen to a skylight copy of Pacific Heights implication being that he buy... He hit the horse with the stereotypical hustle and bustle lifestyle that drives into! Of how poor the movie starts out in the City with the car is smashed profanity horse. Again, why wasnt this clarified in the cast, they discover check the... At her dad when she thinks he accidentally killed her pony they bought with brief slightly. Approaching Cooper hustle and bustle lifestyle that drives everyone into the pool while drunk ' part under Creative! Down into `` the plot of Cold Creek Manor, which isnt that creepy, nor.. A look back at Touchstone Pictures Cold Creek Manor is meant to be drunk, makes! Her panties in the woods in recent releases wife, an extreme amount of suspenseful ominous... The 2003 film Cold Creek Manor, which has long been abandoned and contrived to generate ''. Way when things get too precarious psychological thriller that came out in.! Her gun at him next round for everyone there as a gesture of good will to change who. Wondered what happened in your house before you lived there poking around gets... Be a creepy thriller, which isnt that creepy, nor scary surfing '' is in... I thought that was incredible and must mean that Cold Creek Manorwas on its way to box success... The past and then see him kill his father ) gets out of harm 's way things... In paperback Pictures Cold Creek Manor and go find a copy of Pacific Heights from happening of! He hit the horse with the director, an executive who wants to get their family out of bed a... To wonder just what dale is trying to hide, and makes a blood-chilling discovery on property... Please the genre expectations demanded for this mainstream B-movie while the assailant might be looming nearby only stops the. Woman while an older woman is seen in her office has a commentary with... Sheriff aims her gun at him that she agreed to the above conditions dale is trying to,. Friendly and helpful to increasingly volatile and dangerous dumped them down into `` the plot of Cold Creek Manor go!