Cooper drives home while a bit intoxicated shortly after drinking many shots of liquor. 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. Remember the abstract passing of time I mentioned before? Synopsis Leah Tilson (Sharon Stone) gets out of bed on a busy morning in New York City at 4:30am. OUR WORD TO PARENTS: So, how exactly did the horse die? So they chuck it all. The screenplay by Richard Jefferies tells the story of a family terrorized by the former owner of the rural estate they bought in foreclosure. TENSE FAMILY SCENES Dale puts his hand between Ruby's thighs as she stands in the doorway of her camper. 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. An extreme amount of suspenseful and ominous music plays in the film. window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; 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 Jesse with a paintball rifle. He added, "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". Cooper throws some large roof tiles at the intruder, with one striking him on the head, bloodying him. Leah shows some cleavage in her swimsuit. If you were able to make it through the film once, you most likely will have no interest in watching it again with the director talking. 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. There are a few deleted scenes, most of which deserved to be deleted. An extreme amount of suspenseful and ominous music plays in the film. When the movie was released, it opened in the fifth spot with a weekend take of just over $8 million dollars. He uses some profanity. Ruby, who appears to be drunk, then joins him and orders several rounds of shots for the two of them. As they settle in, Cooper starts to research the previous owners, and eventually meets Dale, one of the former owners of their house. Documentary filmmaker Cooper Tilson (Dennis Quaid) and his professionally. As written by Richard Jefferies, the film is more or less a variation of his script for the 1992 black comedy . They get back to the house where Dale has torched Leah's car. She uses some profanity and states that she agreed to sleep with her boss to get a promotion (but that never happened). When it looks as if he has done a terrible thing, Cooper appeals to his daughter to trust in his innocence, which she does. 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. The next shot she is talking to Sharon Stone and the windshield is dry. Tense FamilyScenes The Tilsons are a loving family that must work through normal conflicts, as well as unite to overcome extraordinary ones. IIRC the family believes it's the father precisely because his headlights/front of the car is smashed. None. We see the image of a somewhat decomposed and mummified face on a video playback. Directed by Mike Figgis. Music(Scary/Tense) Cooper secretly tapes Dale's father in a nursing home (to use in a documentary). PROFANITY Dale punches Ruby and then punches several people who try to restrain him. Moderate In their new home, which is beautiful but in need of work, the Tilsons find out that even though they are the new owners, the house has a story to it. NY 10036. Halloween is soon upon us, and this is the time for a scary movie. Dale then sits next to Cooper and similarly orders several shots of liquor, resulting in Cooper being a bit inebriated. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. After Cooper asks what she did, she says she said yes, but that an emergency phone call prevented that from happening. 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). Dale smokes a number of times, while Ruby smokes once and various miscellaneous characters smoke in several scenes. Plot [ edit] Especially the whole 'getting a dead horse into the pool while drunk' part. . 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 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). Maybe the family thought the horse got loose, or was out in a field overnight? VIOLENCE Which is illogical once you start thinking about it. TOPICS TO TALK ABOUT He then tells Cooper that he should buy the next round for everyone there as a gesture of good will. The implication being that he hit the horse with the car. Cooper drives home while a bit intoxicated shortly after drinking many shots of liquor. 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. We see some small photos of a teenager showing her bare breasts. Once Dale enters the pictureand notices Cooper working on a documentary about the history of his new homestrange things start to happen. 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. Two featurettes are included. Several people smoke cigarettes. No, but everybody in the audience does. Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. MUSIC (INAPPROPRIATE) Contact me | Privacy policy | Join the mailing list | Links. 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. If you are bored and have nothing else to do, why not. [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. He talks about Dales cigarettes, that they had intended him to be European, rolling his own cigarettes, but that preview audiences mistook his hand rolled cigs for joints (as did I) so he clarifies that they are tobacco, just so everybody knows that. Where the hell did the killer go after pushing the wife down the well? 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. One day the former owner shows up and makes himself at home. Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. I am an admin of this site. When Juliet Luis is cleaning the windshield in the beginning of the movie, she moves to the passenger side and wets the window. Violence consists of several deaths (from smothering, a fall and unknown means), while attempts on others' lives also occurs. 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?" He smokes a joint, uses strong profanity, smokes, has sex with Ruby and turns homicidal. We learn that a person killed his family sometime in the past and then see him kill his father. CAST AS ROLE MODELS: 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). Moderate Cold Creek Manor. He only stops when the sheriff aims her gun at him. Cooper races to look for him and finds him sitting on the street right in front of a stopped vehicle. Synopsis. 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. Quaid starred in a similar film in 2019 called. 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. Moving into a new home. Moderate A sudden sound might startle some viewers. 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 . You can help Villains Wiki by expanding it. 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. The screenplay by Richard Jefferies tells the story of a family terrorized by the former owner of the rural estate they bought . It eventually earned $21,386,011 in the United States and $7,733,423 in foreign markets, for a total worldwide box office of $29,119,434. gtag('js', new Date()); Leah and Cooper have a 13-year-old daughter named Kristen (Kristen Stewart) and a 12-year-old son named Jesse (Ryan Wilson). 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?" Dale goes to Devils Throat and punctures Cooper's truck tires. Here's a brief summary of the content found in this R-rated thriller. I was especially impressed with relative newcomer Dana Eskelson as the no-nonsense, tough-as-nails sheriff who gives the Tilsons someone to turn to amidst chaos. [3] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "C" on a scale of A+ to F.[4], Stephen Holden of The New York Times observed, "A serious filmmaker like Mike Figgis can be forgiven, I suppose, for slumming, when he's got a cast as stellar as the one that infuses the scream-by-numbers thriller Cold Creek Manor with more psychological credibility than its screenplay merits". Their two children attend private school. There was a problem. 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. We are shown a new weapon, so something must happen with that weapon and it does. 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). Rated R Various characters have varying degrees of bad attitudes, while some smoke and/or drink, some to the point of intoxication (two drive while drunk). At first it seems like everything is good. We assume she rejected the proposal, but learn later that she had actually considered it until circumstances got in the way. If you want to say that, why didnt you say it in the movie? Ruby tells her sister, the sheriff, that she fell (instead of admitting that Dale punched her). Sheriff Ferguson is dedicated to keeping the peace, and becomes a refuge for the Tilsons when Dale turns the rest of the town against them. 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. Alcohol/Drugs *Moderate http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Headscratchers/ColdCreekManor. 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? Dale shows up at the trailer of his trashy girlfriend, Ruby, and begins undressing her. We see a rear view of Leah in her small panties as she gets out of bed. "Do you know what you're getting yourselves into?" 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. If you are bored and have nothing else to do, why not. 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. Especially the whole 'getting a dead horse into the pool while drunk' part. All Rights Reserved, Cold Creek Manor: Thriller. 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. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Other than that, enjoy Villains Wiki!!! 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. 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. Cooper and Leah want nothing more than to be good parents (she reminds him, We promised we would never put the kids at risk). We see several shots of Dale, sweaty and shirtless with his jeans riding down to expose the top of his underwear. An intruder breaks through a door to get onto the roof. 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. Dealing with bullies and/or the psychotic. Extreme He has Polaroids of his topless, pubescent stepdaughter (glimpsed several times by moviegoers). The two are overheard having raucous sex, a loveless act barely obscured by a set of blinds. Biography He grew up in Cold Creek Manor, with an abusive dad. [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 . 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). Disrespectful/Bad Attitude So he convinces the Tilsons to hire him as a handyman. Cooper cuts off a poisonous snake's head (with brief and slightly bloody results). Parents, get practical information from a biblical worldview to help guide media decisions for your kids! Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. JULIETTE LEWIS plays his white trash girlfriend who has sex with him, uses strong profanity, is drunk, and briefly smokes. 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.". 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. Dale has a bad attitude toward Cooper and his family and sets out to harass and get them out of his former house. A person pushes Leah down into a deep hole in the ground (she's okay). Coopers Documentary looked promising. 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. But COLD CREEK MANOR is definitely not a horror film. We see the image of a somewhat decomposed and mummified face on a video playback. 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. 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. Minor By entering this site you acknowledge to having read and agreed to the above conditions. Dale Massie is the killer. If they're into suspense thrillers or are fans of someone in the cast, they just might. Two people clothesline a third with a rope that they then use to tie him down to a skylight. We are introduced to Cooper, his wife Leah and their kids Jesse and Kristen in the hectic life of living in NYC. 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. It is in anamorphic widescreen format with audio tracks in English and French, and subtitles in Spanish. Dale has a bad attitude toward Cooper and his family and sets out to harass and get them out of his former house. That may have been the intention if the film had been successful, but as it lost money, any chance of a sequel became moot. 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. All rights reserved. To end this month of fear and fright, a look back at Touchstone Pictures Cold Creek Manor. Miscellaneous people have beer in a restaurant. Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab). Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Diffuser Disney100, Bill Gowsell has loved all things Disney since his first family trip to Walt Disney World in 1984. IIRC the family believes it's the father precisely because his headlights/front of the car is smashed. Cooper (DENNIS QUAID) and Leah Tilson (SHARON STONE) have decided to give up the city life of New York for the countryside of Bellingham. Thats a shame because the Tilson familys priorities, character and interactions are pretty positive. 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. One character briefly smokes a joint. Heres how it works. Jesse is nearly struck by a vehicle when he darts out into traffic. Dale smokes a number of times, while Ruby smokes once and various miscellaneous characters smoke in several scenes. 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. Dale comments on Leah saying that he could have "f*cked" her anytime he asked. Profanity After Cooper asks what she did, she says she said yes, but that an emergency phone call prevented that from happening. Kill.Switch (2003) Resident Evil 5 (2009) Grand Theft Auto III (2001) Dale Massie is not a villain in this movie, but an enabler, a character who doesn't want to kill but exists only to expedite the plot. Figgis talking during a scene transition says Lets say this is a month later. The couple charge at him with a line of rope, knocking him off his feet, then bind him against a roof lantern. 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. [6], Edward Guthmann of the San Francisco Chronicle said, "As haunted-house thrillers go, Cold Creek Manor is more ludicrous than the average but at the same time more handsomely produced. 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