Cold Creek Manor

Pros: Scenery, decent acting (especially that Dorff), and five minutes of a cool song.
Cons: This is predictable, but The Usual Suspects is a classic. It's all about the timing.

Once upon a time, there was a family. They lived in the city. The city was just so damn crowded! "Hold your sister's hand!" the father insisted. But the kid didn't listen. Here comes an SUV. Splat!!! (Almost.) "Let's move to the country," they ...

Pros: Umm....
Cons: What a stupid movie.

Last Saturday night my son and I decided to watch a horror movie.  We went to Time Warner's 'Horror On Demand' selections and looked through the movies.  Cold Creek Manor seemed as though it had all of the elements of a terrifying ...

Pros: Not many - the acting skills of Stephen Dorff...
Cons: Screenplay, majority of the acting, general production...

“Cold Creek Manor” has all the stereotypical elements of the usual horror movie – a serial killer (male, abused as a child, likes violent copulative activities), a few grizzly murder weapons, a big old empty house, flashing lights, spooky ...

Pros: Human Drama, Eerie Mood, Superb Acting.
Cons: Bait and Switch Ploy. Type casting Juliet Lewis.

Teaser Well I sat down at the movie theater and for the first time in quite a while I could not believe my eyes. As the scenes on the screen began to unfold in front of me, they looked nothing like the trailers had believed me the movie would b ...

Pros: Well-acted. Juliette Lewis an unexpected bonus. (Ladies'Tip: Nice eye candy from Dorff)
Cons: Script, directing, plot, lighting. You get the idea.

When I spotted Cold Creek Manor in the DVD rental store, I had heard nothing about it. I suppose that should have been my first clue. But I was on a mission to quickly pick up some movies for a bedridden friend, and my only instructions were to get a ...

Pros: Neat premises
Cons: Bad execution

There are perhaps half a dozen movies struggling to escape from this film. A couple are pretty decent, one is a horribly campy 'B' movie that might be a lot of fun, and the others are trash. The director decided to go with the latter sort. Scenario ...

Pros: a few decent acting performances, nice scenery
Cons: boring, unoriginal, lacks thrills, dull story

"Cold Creek Manor" is probably the first film since 9/11 to show a family from New York that for some reason decides the city isn't worth living in anymore and purchases a house in the rural country. And when they know the property they're purchasing is ...

Pros: Christopher Plummer, the house, the idea
Cons: sad attempt at being a thriller

Life at Cold Creek Manor A beautiful repossessed country manor in need of some fixing up and 1200 acres of property to go with it. It all belongs to the Tilson family now--its contents and its secrets. They’ve left the too-hectic and ...

Pros: Some interesting camera work, Sharon Stone still looks good, very nice surround mix
Cons: Too long, not thrilling, not suspenseful, no mystery, boring characters, uneven transfer

Introduction A dilapidated house, a vulnerable family and a mysterious past would lead one to believe that a decent thriller would be found in Cold Creek Manor. One would be sorely mistaken. The lackluster thriller fails to generate any ...

Pros: Decent but quite predictable.
Cons: Doesn't live up to the hype.

To begin with, don’t go in expecting this movie to be about a haunted house or another Amityville horror. It doesn’t go that direction nor ever intends to. Instead, go in expecting a movie that features a more psychological bent and you’ll enj ...

Pros: Quaid and Stone
Cons: Stephen Dorff and Juliette Lewis. Again.

Oh, I love a good yarn about a family who, tired with the "terrors" of the city, move to a bucolic spot in the country, buy a run down old mansion for a song, and then discover that the terrors that await them are far worse than those they left. ...

Pros: none
Cons: plot, script, pacing, soundtrack

This is one of the longest bad movies I have ever sat through. Its predictable, the acting is only par, and the soundtrack was horrid. I'll never have those two hours of my life back. Skip this film and watch some good film, again, instead. The ...

Pros: Nice to see Sharon Stone back in movies.
Cons: The script does not justify any of it's plot points. Movie suffers for "Genericism".

The Tilsons are a quiet Manhattan family that decides to move out from the "Dangerous" city to the country side where they feel it would be better to raise their children. They find a run-down estate called Cold Creek Manor and purchase it from the bank, ...

Pros: Simple and slow.
Cons: Way too simple and slow. Not Figgis' best work. Thriller - not exactly. Underdeveloped.

Basic Premise: Manhattan family of four needs a change of pace from the hustle and bustle of the demanding city and move into a foreclosed manor with a haunting (hehehe) past. The only thing really haunting about this movie is how badly Sharon Stone's ...

Pros: Great cast, interesting set-up but....
Cons: story runs out of gas and smarts far too soon.

A shockingly bland thriller movie from acclaimed English director, Mike Figgis, who gave us intense gems like LEAVING LAS VEGAS or complicated innovations like TIMECODE. COLD CREEK MANOR marks the return of Sharon Stone to the big screen who has yet to ...