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Turn off your brain and Cold Creek Manor just might turn into an entertaining thriller. Taking an uncharacteristic detour into nonsensical plot mechanics, director Mike Figgis expertly pushes buttons with this nerve-jangling but ultimately hackneyed story (by Richard Jeffries) about a documentary filmmaker (Dennis Quaid) who moves his wife (Sharon Stone) and two kids into a run-down rural mansion once owned by the family of a simmering ex-convict (Stephen Dorff), who's got secret reasons for wanting Quaid's family to leave. This rote potboiler wants to be as thrilling as Fatal Attraction, but it's more like Pacific Heights--fun to watch as the tension escalates with Dorff's violent behavior, but seriously flawed as plot holes proliferate. With a few good shocks and slinky support from Juliette Lewis, it's perfectly enjoyable as a popcorn distraction, but maybe they should've called it Cold Creaky Manor instead. --Jeff Shannon
Most peoples impression from the trailer, myself included, is that this movie was of the haunted house/horror genre. WRONG. It's another genre of film alright. The RIDICULOUS genre. Don't bother with this movie in any capacity. It's just plain awful!
If you overlook everything that couldn't POSSIBLY happen...
...then then movie isn't bad. However, anyone with any sense of reality would have problems doing so.
Forget everything you've been taught about life- this movie doesn't follow those rules. Instead, it expects the audience to dumb-it-down and just buy into every error there is.
Other than all of the impossibles this movie presents, it's a mildly good thriller. However, all of the "errors" lowered it big time for me. 4/10
Cold Creek Manor
This thriller movie starring Sharon Stone and Dennis Quid as Leah Tilson and Cooper shows a more dangerous aspect of moving homes.
Cooper and Leah are a wealthy couple who have grown tired of the high stress of the life in New York City and are looking to move to someplace with more breathing room. Upstate, they find a mansion in the village of Cold Creek which has fallen into poor conditions after it was repossessed. Convinced the house has great possibilities, The Tilsons buy it, and with a little hard work Cooper, Leah, and their two children are soon living in their dream home. Little do they know, the house used to belong to a lifelong Cold Creek resident named Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff), a bad guy who ended up behind bars. After he was released from prison, Massie makes it clear to the new owners that he wants his home back, and before long Cooper and Leah begin learning the disturbing truth about the history of the mansion - and that many Cold Creek residents don't take kindly to new arrivals.
The movie has many complicated twists, however, thanks to the director's artful planning, the story has a sense of reality stuck to it. Cold Creek Manor also stars Juliette Lewis and is directed by the award winning Mike Figgis.
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