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2012-05-23 06:24:52

Best Thriller!

Best movie of the year at the end you will feel COLD!It will take you out of your seat!!!Best Movie!

Jill A 2012-05-22 11:38:05

Cold Creek Manor

IT was the best movie! Me and the guy I like went to see it! It made my night! I love it! Go see it!

2012-05-19 07:55:24

So boring that it's not really worth commenting on, but I'll try...

This one was tough to sit through until the end. Very little happens in thisfilm at all, unless you're deeply afraid of snakes or bearded ChristopherPlummers. I can't describe what's wrong with the film without some***SPOILERS***, so if you actually plan on torturing yourself with thisbland waste of talent READ NO FURTHER!I sit through B-movie after B-movie, the worst of the worst, and I'm warningyou, this one was bad! It may have had A-list talent but it made Leprechaun4 look like The Exorcist. Dennis Quaid acted throughout the film as thoughhe was trying out for the lead in the "Michael J. Fox Story" (what was withall that twitching?...my apologies if the man is ill!)and Sharon Stone'sso-called comeback role consisted of playing to the typical formula of theuseless female in distress. I can't think of anything (other than a cokehabit)* that would have her reading this script and excepting this role!These are two actors that I normally admire, but you'd think of each that itwas their first film. The movie needs to us to care about these twoobnoxious New York Yuppies and their "came-with-the-picture-frame" childrenand believe me, you will not. In fact, you'll most likely spend theextremely dragged-out two hours wishing for something nasty to happen to atleast one of the four city slickers, which it never does.And since you can't have city slickers without them pesky, greasy, backwoodslocals, we enter Stephen Dorf (now that's a scary image!)and a sadly misusedJuliet Lewis. She's the best actor in the pick and the only reason to seeit, but couldn't she have played the sheriff role for a change? Please?Anyway some nonsense is revealed about Dorf's family having to slaughtertheir livestock with hammers (Texas Chainsaw?) and maybe Dorf himself killedhis wife and kids. We don't know and don't care, but poor old ChristopherPlummer is going to chew up the scenery (literally, and quitedisgustingly)just to try and provide some unnecessary back drop and helppull the movie kicking and screaming into its second hour. This film doesfor chocolate covered cherries what Psycho did for showers.Did I mention the snakes? Did I mention that Dorf takes his shirt off? Whatabout The Devil's Throat, you ask? Well it's just an excuse to ripoff TheRing and add a spooky well with a corpse floating deep down in its murkywater. Will someone fall into the aforementioned filth? I think you know theanswer to that, as well as you'll know the entire movie's plotline wellbefore it's over. (An amusing thing to look for, if you're still notconvinced to stay home and rent The Omen: There really is no mystery, butthe only clues found are a piece of old wooden sign reading "evil" and agirl's retainer. Both objects are completely hidden to the naked eye yetboth are found by characters simply looking down.)The end result is that there is not a single chilling moment or surprise inthe entire film, other than the atrocious acting demonstrated by three ofHollywood's so-called elite. But, in the movie's favor, Dorf does take hisshirt off.*(Easy, folks, I was only kidding! If she can sleep at night knowing I paid$10 to sit in a theater and have to watch the film equivilent of being readto sleep, than Mrs. Stone can take a joke.)

2012-05-18 17:02:02

william

i think the movie was good cause of the way the directors made it real and the way the actors that auditioned for this movie was great and i give it a thumbs up! i hope it comes out in video soon. it makes a great halloween movie. Really Suspenseful.

2012-05-17 11:09:57

Cold Creek Manor

This film is a waste. Its not what you think. There are tons of movies plots just like it. Save your money. Predictable, slow, unthrilling. Make a tape of the trailer cause its better than the movie.

ResidentHazard 2012-05-16 18:28:47

Another Hollywood Horror/Thriller Miss...

Cold Creek Manor Here's yet another film that I believe suffered from some pooradvertising. Or, at the very least, some misguided advertising. As Irecall when it was released, there was a strong vibe to those ads thatindicated some sort of haunted house or ghost story or something. So itcame up on Encore, I remembered those ads and wanted to see what kindof haunted house story I was going to get. Dennis Quaid and SharonStone? Sounds alright. I'm not generally a big fan of haunted housepictures, but I figured I'd give it a look. At least it's rated R,right?Well, well, well... So. So where are the ghosts and sh*t? Turns outthis is not the ghost story I thought it was... A big, rich family from"the big city" (I think it was Boston or New York--ofcourse--everyone's from either those cities or LA these days) gets fedup with the hustle and bustle and insanity of living in the city anddecide to move out to the middle of nowhere. They stumble upon aglorious old house in glorious old decay--Cold Creek Manor. The houseis owned by a bank ready to off-load it for whatever they can get forit. Apparently, they could get around 200 grand for it. Sh*t, thishouse is huge! The property goes on forever! There are houses in theTwin Cities here that are 1/6th as big as the house in this film thatcost more than that! Anyway, eventually, the last surviving, capable,member of the family that once lived there turns up, fresh from prison,and a little annoyed that his house is all gone. So he startsterrorizing the family all slowly and methodically and weirdly... Ordoes this family just have some really rotten luck...? Well, at anyrate, Dennis Quaid thinks the guy is out to get them and goes mildlyberserk trying to prove it. He's a documentary filmmaker, and itdoesn't help matters that he's doing his current documentary on thefamily that lived in that big ol' mansion before he and his familymoved in.Here's the breakdown:The Good: --The acting is generally pretty good (one scene I'll point out lateris the exception)--Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone after all. She's done well to proveshe's more than just a remarkable specimen of femininity--she's also anactress, after all. --Impressive sets--that house is beautiful--from the decaying look ofit's years of neglect to it's remarkable half-restoration--it's a greatlookin' place to live.--Fairly interesting story. --Pretty good chemistry between Sharon Stone and Dennis Quaid, they'recharacters (the married couple) endure arguments and crumbling marriagewith hints of adultery.Didn't Hurt It, Didn't Help: --The atmosphere was pretty mild. Nothing special, and nothing doing areally intriguing job of building tension.--The usual plot-point that one part of the mystery can only be solvedby a chance discovery by the children is, of course, present here too.--Average Cinematography. --Some very mild blood/gore scenes. Mostly, with just some blood--and askeleton or two. Nothing major. Looked good, but wasn't anythingspecial. --Only mild violence. Fight scenes, mostly. --Very mild nudity, and one sex scene--through window blinds no less.The nudity is pretty much relegated to pictures--photographs--of thewife of the last member of Cold Creek's original family.The Bad: --Sharon Stone kept her clothes on. Okay, I'm kidding. She did, butthat didn't hurt the film in any way. --The music varies from average, to simply obnoxious. We get scenesthat contain mild drama, but have a piano pounded on with a feverish,near lunatic intensity. Here's an example: Car driving down stretch ofroad, someone's worried about an argument--overcast withDUNN-DUNN-DUNN-DUNN-DUNN-DUNN-DUNNNNN!!!! as loud as the howling ofhell beasts in hell. --One exceptionally poor scene where the family is apparentlythreatened by generally harmless American mountain snakes. The snakesslowly slither to and fro through the house and everybody freaks outwith enough overacting to match any Keanu Reeves scene. It just wasn'tscary. Not at all. Maybe, if there were tons and tons of snakes--likein "Raiders of the Lost Ark" it would've been mildly scary. But wholefamily is running away from a terrifying torrent of roughly 6 snakes.The scene, very simply, wasn't believable. I almost laughed at it--itwas that stupid. --Some clichés and cheesiness pop up occasionally. No real surprises.The Ugly: --Occasionally feels like a "Deliverance"-style "big city folks out 'ntheir element" movie--but not as good as "Deliverance" (which is aclassic).Memorable Scene: --Dennis Quaid punches Sharon Stone in the face. Oopsy! Acting: 7/10 (except for that one scene) Story: 6/10 Atmosphere: 5/10Cinematography: 5/10 Character Development: 7/10 SpecialEffects/Make-up: 7/10 (not much to note) Nudity/Sexuality: 2/10(quantity) Violence/Gore: 6/10 Sets/Backgrounds: 8/10 Dialogue: 7/10Music: 3/10 Writing: 6/10 Direction: 6/10Cheesiness: 3/10 Crappiness: 0/10Overall: 5/10I'm giving it a 5 because the film suffers from a few too manyproblems. It's probably good for fans of horror/thrillers to take alook at, but is likely too mild for hardcore horror fanatics to careabout. Better, maybe, for the average movie-goer looking for a lightthriller to spend an evening with.www.ResidentHazard.com

2012-05-15 12:55:46

I LIKED IT!

I DO NOT KNOW WHAT IT WAS ABOUT THIS MOVIE BUT, SO MANY OF THE MOVIES QUOTES HAVE BEEN GOING THROUGH MY HEAD. "I'M GONNA BASH YOUR SKULL IN, AND THROW YOU DOWN THE DEVILS THROAT" I KNOW I SOUND LIKE A MORON. AND HEY THIS IS FAR CRY FROM BEING SOME COMPLICATED MOVIE THRILLER BUT, I REALLY DID DIG THIS MOVIE EVEN THOUGH IT WAS COMPLETELY UBSURD. DO YOUR SELF A FAVOR IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THIS MOVIE WATCH IT AND THEN WAIT ABOUT A WEEK AND WATCH IT AGAIN.

2012-05-15 05:03:44

Cold creek manor

I am always careful about films that skip the cinemas and go straight to DVD. Cold Creek Manor is one of those films (well, that's what happened in Australia). However, after reading the back cover, I decided it sounded ok particularly being a thriller.While its far from being original, it has some creepy moments. It also has some try hard scary scenes (ie. the snake scene), but I imagine a madman could do that sort of thing if provoked. Unfortunately, the movie proves that Sharon Stone is a rather ordinary actor, and while Dennis Quaid acts the same in all his roles, he is quite convincing as a man in danger.Cold Creek Manor is worthy of one viewing ... even if Stephen Dorff is annoying as the madman.

chuckbuc 2012-05-14 05:41:19

A total waste of time - warning entire plot spoiler in post

I had a more pleasant time driving to the theater then watching thismovie.Here is the entire plot lay out, save an hour and half of you life and 20bucks.. Couple gets feed up with the `rat race' of New York.o Finds a large mansion in the country and buys it with all the contentsofthe previous owner. The father of the family that owned the house before returns to themannerto ask for a jobo Sold because of bank foreclosure while in prison for crime he did notcomet). New couple let him fix the house. Scene where old owner tells new owner that the estate used to be a sheepfarm and explains that the hammers on the wall are `killing hammers' usedtodo in the sheep.o Hmm, a hammer from the collection is missing.. We learn that the old owner's wife and kids left him. Says he doesn'tknowwhere they are.. Snakes in the mansion! (comes off being silly)o New owner thinks the old owner put the snakes in the house to get rideofthem. Threats come from old owner at the local bar.. New owner drives home drunko Is being tailgated by big redneck trucko Hits a dear Finds his daughters horse dead in the pool the next day,daughterthinks her dad actually hit the horse and not a dear. More threats and reticule the next morning at the localrestaurant. New owner sends family back to New York. Through the old owners retirement home bedridden father and notes leftform the child of the old owner he and his wife figures out that the oldowner killed his family.. They find the bodies in a well on the estate.. Old owner tries to kill them with the missing hammer.. Through big city cunning and team work and cooperation they kill himinstead.. The end

hershon2004 2012-05-13 15:10:31

Worst "A" movie ever Don't see or rent

This is the worst movie ever made by an "A" cast production. This moviehasthe worst story/script, worst acting and worst directing of any movie evermade with an "A" cast production. Dennis Quaid sleeps through the entiremovie with one expression on his face the whole time- I could havesubstituted a cardboard blowup of him and you wouldn't have noticed thedifference. I can't believe the director had won an academy award fordirecting previous to this, as a junior high school kid with a videocameracould have directed a better film then this. Do not waste your time andmoney renting or seeing this and don't even bother to see if shown on TV.Spoiler alert: Here is the entire movie ina few sentences, its noncondencsed!, and its as pointless, dull anduninteresting as I've described. NY filmmaker's kid almost gets run overbya car in NYC which convinces the filmmaker to move his family into thecountry and buy a large foreclosed house. Almost immediately a weird guyenters the house and says he's the son of the former owner, his wife andkids have left him, and can he help restore the house. Dennis Quaidreluctantly says yes. The guy does a good job but one day snakes appear inthe house. OOOh scary, LOL! The next moment their horse if found dead intheir pool. OOOH scary. Dennis Quaid suspects its the houses's owners sonwho has done this and guess what it is. The house's owners son then triestokill Dennis Quaid and family who have in the meantime discovered that thehouses's owners son has killed his (not Dennis's) wife and kid. DennisQuaidkills the houses's owners son in self defense. End of Movie. I kid younot.This is all that is. Some studio executive should be fired forthis.

albinochewbacca 2012-05-12 23:58:53

The worst movie I have seen in a loooong time.

*****Spoiler Alert*****This is the worst movie I think I have ever seen. There is not a singleredeeming quality here. The plot was bad, the score was bad, the actingwasbad, the dialog was bad. You are led to think this is a supernatural,Suspense, Thriller. All I ever could think about was how great this wouldbe for Mystery Science Theater 3000. There is no logic in the movie atall.Nowhere does this rambling pointless movie come close to a rationalthought. The opening scene goes no where. The 2nd scene goes nowhere. Soyou have to wait for the 3rd scene just to have a coherent stream ofevents.Then, when the kid almost gets run over because he runs out into thestreet,the family has to move to the country. Why not tell the kid not to run outinto the street? Nope, make the wife give up her career and move into arundown house that will require hundreds of thousands of dollars just tomake it presentable. Then when a creepy guy shows up inside your house,invite him for dinner. Hire him on. I can't even pick out a worst part ofthis movie. How about the father hits a small deer on the way home (smallenough to be a key deer or a fawn) Next morning the horse is dead in thepool. Everone thinks he hit the horse. Nevermind the car was stilldrivable, with only a broken headlight and the bumper and fender slightlyseperated. Had it hit a horse hard enough to kil it, the car would betotaled. But the horse is in the pool! how could he have hit the horseintothe pool? The horse was in a stall, the car was out front! The whole movieis full of this kind of terrible writing. The score is wayyyy over done totry to account for the lack of suspense. Someone is trying to kill you,doyou ever think about obtaining a weapon? No! The killer beats you back toyour house and sets fire to your car? Let's go inside. Oh, how did he findus here. Lets run to the roof where we can't get away. Random scenes arethrown in throughout the movie that connect to nothing. A six year oldcouldhave written a much better, more coherent screenplay. Wait, I did think ofsomething redeeming. No special effects. So not only was this lame, it waslow budget and lame.The scenes were choppy, nothing flowed smoothly. Half the characters madenosense. The ones that did, you couldn't care about anyway. How this evergotmade into a movie, and how it ever got released is the true suspensebehindthis movie. The true horror is how much you paid to see it, and that youwasted that much of your life watching it.

2012-05-12 07:33:33

Worth watching

If you prefer more suspense than 'scare' factor, you'll probably feel this movie is worth watching. It's a 'what happened to the previous family?' type of story-line when Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone's characters pose as the unsuspecting home buyers who think they're getting a great deal on a fabulous manor with gorgeous land, until they meet the previous owner who is a bit 'messed up'. Not bad for a suspense flick.Chrissy K. McVay - Author

Ashley 2012-05-11 11:18:20

Scared the ***** out off me

This movie was oscar-worthy. The plot was great. It was scary, but it was suspensful.If you like a movie like Red Dragon or Hannibal... is the movie for you...I highly recommend this movie to everyone.

mamafargo 2012-05-10 22:19:10

Predictable and disjointed

This movie had a lot of potential to be a really great film.Unfortunately, it did not live up to that potential. It was disjointedand never really flowed. The scenes seemed to be slapped together atrandom. There were never any plot twists or unpredictable happenings. The basicplot was a family of city-slickers that move to the country, thesheriff sounds like a hick, her sister is a tramp and the former ownerof the families new home is a psychotic ex-con. The climax of the movieoccurs during (surprise, surprise) a storm with the phone lines dead.Never at any point of this movie did we think the killer was anybodyother than Dale Massie, former owner and resident psycho.This movie was disappointing, but definitely not the worst movie I haveever seen. The ending was creepy, even if it could be seen coming froma mile away.Final rating 4 out of 10.

Richard Milward 2012-05-03 17:13:43

Heeere's RUBY!!

Caught this recently on ITV2. I agree with most of the reviews here,that this movie was lame. One big missed opportunity was this: Ruby,the Juliette Lewis character. Dale had mistreated her throughout thestory, and just brained her sister, right? Time to wheel out anothercliché - tramp-with-a-heart to the rescue! Just when sappy city coupleare up on the roof,about to 'buy the farm', up pops Ruby with the sheephammer and delivers some good ol'fashioned country justice. Surely!!No. All we get is an odd slo mo shot of her by the Massie gravestones,then a freeze frame, and that's it. Wha?? Perhaps a nod to a possiblesequel, but really just confusing and unnecessary. A waste of a greatactress too.

2012-05-03 09:28:11

Entirely Insulting

If you ever had any intention of seeing this movie, it is my hope that I can be the one to assure that you don't. I'll be giving away every secret of the plot in order to seal this act. Of course, the movie itself gives everything away in the first ten minutes simply by existing. Cold Creek Manor insults its audience by thinking that it is ahead of us when it is so cliched that every incident is easily predicted, and often foreshadowed, often up to an hour in advance. When they are presented as surprises, you'll be wondering why, since you knew that (whatever) was going to happen long before. After an accident that lets them know that New York City is a dangerous place to live (but could have happened anywhere people are impatient with vehicles), Cooper and Leah Tilson (Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone) buy an old mansion with a past out in the country. The locals sit around the local diner mumbling about the house but, of course, only telling the Tilsons what they need to know in order to advance the plot. Just as they are settling in, who shows up but the former owner of Cold Creek Manor (he was in prison, missed some payments, and the bank foreclosed, allowing the Tilsons to buy cheap), Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff), whose family had owned the house for generations. Now, the first clue that this guy isn't to be trusted is his family: where are they? If he was in prison, the wife could make payments, right? Oh, but not if ... but, see, you've already figured it out. The Tilsons don't, however, and hire Massie to help restore the old house, while he rummages through his old stuff that was sold with the house, including a display of skull hammers and some nudie pictures of the wife, along with photos of the many generations of Massies that Cooper, a documentarian, is using to make a film about the house. Still with me? Strange things start to happen, like poisonous snakes appearing in beds and on floors, causing the family to race up to the roof and call Dale to get them out, making him a hero in the eyes of the kids. Luckily, because Dennis Quaid is a pretty smart guy, his character figures out that Dale put the snakes in the house. Unfortunately, due to some poor career choices that have numbed her brain, Sharon Stone's character does not believe him and ends up with Juliette Lewis screaming at her, a fate I would wish on no one.Some thriller conventions just leap out, like a skylight/stained glass combination that serves no purpose but just screams to be fallen through. And characters that serve mainly to give information so they can be killed. The only bright spot in this is we get to see Christopher Plummer have a lot of fun as Massie Senior, an old, belligerent, senile man in a nursing home who has a thing for chocolate-covered cherries. The kids are all right, too, especially Jesse's (Ryan Wilson) earnest delivery of that laughable poetry. (Kristen Stewart from Panic Room plays the daughter and was nominated for Young Artist Awards for both films.)I could go on, but I don't really want to spend any more time discussing this insulting piece of cinematic waste. Mike Figgis (who made Leaving Las Vegas, so we know he can make a decent film) should be ashamed of making this film (the extras on the DVD seem to say that he is quite proud of it) and Richard Jeffries should have his computer taken away from him for lack of originality. The most ironic moment comes when, in one of the DVD extras, which covers the "Rules of the Genre," Figgis points out that you must follow the rules while never allowing the audience to be ahead of the characters in the film. Editing was done in post-production to ensure that this would not happen. The most fun we had watching Cold Creek Manor was high-fiving each other when our cliché predictions came true. Our hands were sore by the end, and so were we, having wasted our time and money on this.

Fanch 2012-05-03 14:59:11

One of the worst movies EVER

There's nothing "thrilling" about this movie, and the trailer is not indicative of what the story is about at all. You think it's going to be a thriller, but all it's about is a bunch of redneck fighting bull*****. I couldn't wait for it to end - don't even bother renting it when it comes on on DVD.

2012-05-02 23:07:45

GODAWFUL!

This boring waste of film and time does not deserve a review...

davideo-2 2012-04-28 18:05:40

An exercise in the perfunctory

STAR RATING:*****Unmissable****Very Good***Okay**You Could Go Out For A MealInstead*Avoid At All CostsFollowing a traumatic incident,Cooper (Dennis Quaid) and Leah Tilson (SharonStone) and their two children relocate from New York to an area outside thecity.They purchase a decrepit old house and administer an extensiverenovation plan.Then they encounter the former owner Dale Massie (StephenDorff) and a sinister series of events begin to unravel an horrific crimefrom the past that refuses to be a sleeping dog and lie.From the off-set this looked rather hackneyed and predictable and I wascertainly not disappointed on these two counts.What I didn't expect was forit also to be such an uneven,unclear and woefully uninvolving affair.Thefilm is meant to be a suspense horror type film,and it was not suspensefulat all and it was in no way whatsoever scary.The script is full of everysingle cliche and seen-it-all-before scenario imaginable and offers nothingin the way of surprises whatsoever.There is also some truly terrible acting on display.Some no name members ofthe supporting cast are one thing,but why Quaid wasn't nominated for aGolden Raspberry award for his lead role here is a mystery.For such ausually competent and certainly experienced actor,here he is soembarrassingly blank,listless and gormless that you just wouldn't believeit.True,he doesn't have the most inspiring material to work with,but this isreally unbelievable.Stone,Dorff and Juliette Lewis are nothing to write homeabout especially,but they are certainly not as noticeable.It's short,I suppose,and it's nice to see Stone make a big screencomeback,but these are hardly recommendations.It's a film you can quicklymake short-shrift of,and,while it's thankfully short itself,if you'relooking for an engaging haunted house horror type movie,there are certainlymuch better destinations you can head to than Cold Creek Manor.*

2012-04-28 03:20:54

Not What You Expect

When you see the trailer, you think it'll be a great movie. About a house with lots of dark secrets that will be exciting and scary to discover. What you get is a movie that has poor direction, an awkward storyline and no real point at all. They fade out of the scenes too quickly, they jump from one point to another without having an in-between. The movie lacked an appealing factor. From the first point when they buy the house to when the original owner shows up. They hesitate to explain certain things that would've made the movie a lot more interesting. The original owner is the only character with any real depth, we get to explore his past and present and see why he is the way he is. The movie had some appealing factors. It was somewhat scary, and did have some mediocre surprises. But in the end, you find yourself wanting something more than what they gave.I would wait for the video.