Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. The implication being that he hit the horse with the car. He is a psychopath who threatened to kill the Tilson family who moved to Dale's old home. 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. Days go by and Dale proves to be anything but helpful. He also calls a nurse, "You little bitch.". Leah is shown in her underwear. He said the film "belongs to the Cape Fear tradition of thrillers in which the mettle of a civilized family man is tested in a life-or-death struggle with crude macho evil". Cold Creek Manor (2003) Grace (Sharon Stone) and Cooper (Dennis Quaid) decide that they need to slow their lives down a bit and move their family into a big estate in the country. Cooper cuts off a poisonous snake's head (with brief and slightly bloody results). Dale puts his hand between Ruby's thighs as she stands in the doorway of her camper. 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). Dale Massie is the main antagonist of the 2003 film Cold Creek Manor. Profanity consists of at least 19 "f" words, while other expletives and colorful phrases are used. 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? He also calls a nurse, "You little bitch." Cooper ends up hitting a deer during that. 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). So he fires him. Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. To recap for people who havent seen Cold Creek Manor: Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone play Cooper and Leah Tilson, two New York parents who find themselves being swallowed up by the city and decide to take their family to a safer place. Cooper shatters the skylight, sending Dale to his death. Dale is suspected of having murdered his own family in similar fashion. 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 pollution. All of this is eventually because the film never gives any solid idea of the passage of time. Quaid plays the part well, and Stephen Dorff is great as the slimy Dale, but Dale Massie is a walking red flag to run away from. 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. The couple who own the local diner extend a warm welcome to their new neighbors. 4.6 out of 5 stars. Cooper Tilson toils as a documentary filmmaker in New York City. Despite being a bit predictable, Cold Creek Manor is full of thrills and. Dale eventually got murdered by Cooper and Leah Tilson by them hanging and tying him to a object with rale and threw him down to his death for trying to kill and harm them and for killingtheir daughter Kristen's horse that was such a nice, sweet and gentle horse that would do no harm to anyone but that sadly died so tragically due to Dale's being so evil and horrible, Kang the Conqueror (Marvel Cinematic Universe), Loki Laufeyson (Marvel Cinematic Universe). Wanting to escape city life for the countryside, New Yorkers Cooper Tilson (Quaid), his wife Leah (Stone) and their two children move into a dilapidated old mansion still filled with the possessions of the previous family. Cooper and Leah want nothing more than to be good parents (she reminds him, We promised we would never put the kids at risk). Were they possibly thinking of doing maybe a revenge sequel? 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. Violence consists of several deaths (from smothering, a fall and unknown means), while attempts on others' lives also occurs. She and Cooper lower a video camera into the well and find the rotting corpses of Dale's wife and children. There is not one moment on screen that says to me that Dale is trustworthy. Accordingly, he turns from friendly and helpful to increasingly volatile and dangerous. Cooper agrees and we then see him and others drinking. Hes an actor that brings so much passion and energy to the screen that despite all the failings of a movie, Quaid can make a character shine. 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. Much of the thrills felt like padding to please the genre expectations demanded for this mainstream B-movie. The DVD for Cold Creek Manor gets a little higher marks for having some content to it. Finally the film has a commentary track with the director. Especially the whole 'getting a dead horse into the pool while drunk' part. Box office. 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. Cooper (DENNIS QUAID) and Leah Tilson (SHARON STONE) have decided to give up the city life of New York for the countryside of Bellingham. OUR WORD TO PARENTS: They befriend local tavern owners Ray and Ellen Pinski and their daughter . He then tells Cooper that he should buy the next round for everyone there as a gesture of good will. Cold Creek Manor is a psychological thriller that came out in 2003. Old Mr. Massie prattles on about his late wifes promiscuity and calls Dale the corrupt spawn of your whoring mother. Dale says his own wife had an active social life as well. 1996-2022 Screen It, Inc. function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} A man smothers another man in a nursing home. Helmer Mike Figgis displays at best a half-hearted interest in delivering the commercial genre goods, while . We see an old drawing/picture of a man holding a knife to a child. It just doesnt make sense. Design and text 1996 - 2023 Jon Sandys. He then tells Cooper that he should buy the next round for everyone there as a gesture of good will. 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). WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT? 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. (R. 119 minutes. After Cooper asks what she did, she says she said yes, but that an emergency phone call prevented that from happening. Her husband, Cooper Tilson (Dennis Quaid), reminds her to reset the alarm clock to wake him up in time to get the kids to school and go to work. He uses some profanity, drinks and drives, and becomes jealous of his wife. [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". Im eager to see what she does next. Thank you for signing up to CinemaBlend. Wanting to escape city life for the saner, safer countryside, New Yorkers Cooper Tilson (Dennis Quaid), his wife Leah (Golden Globe winner Sharon Stone), and their two children move into a dilapidated old mansion still filled with the possessions of the previous family. The Tilsons are a loving family that must work through normal conflicts, as well as unite to overcome extraordinary ones. 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?" Contact me | Privacy policy | Join the mailing list | Links. He has Polaroids of his topless, pubescent stepdaughter (glimpsed several times by moviegoers). A man smothers another man in a nursing home. The movie of course issues two small children to the Tilsons, so that their little screams can pipe up on cue, as when the beloved horse is found in the pool. 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. Instead of finding a safer place, they buy Cold Creek Manor, an old beaten manor that they intend to turn into their dream home. Violence Reviewed September 17, 2003 / Posted September 19, 2003 A person pushes Leah down into a deep hole in the ground (she's okay). Thats a shame because the Tilson familys priorities, character and interactions are pretty positive. Think of the trouble it would be for one man, working alone, to kill a horse and dump it into a swimming pool. As Cooper sorts through the mess in the house, he comes across many old documents and photographs, and decides to record the history of the building on film. $29.1 million [1] 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 screenplay by Richard Jefferies tells the story of a family terrorized by the former owner of the rural estate they bought in foreclosure. To end this month of fear and fright, a look back at Touchstone Pictures Cold Creek Manor. He smokes a joint, uses strong profanity, smokes, has sex with Ruby and turns homicidal. JULIETTE LEWIS plays his white trash girlfriend who has sex with him, uses strong profanity, is drunk, and briefly smokes. A person has blood on their face. As Cooper Tilson attempts to protect his family from Massies psychotic ways, he also starts to piece together the mystery of Cold Creek Manors past well, actually its Dale Massies past, but Dale Massie isnt half as interesting a title as Cold Creek Manor. Alcohol/Drugs 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. If you are bored and have nothing else to do, why not. We see video of a teenager in a bikini in a pool. It also helped make this film seem too long, as at least twenty minutes should have been cut in the editing room. Ruby tells her sister, the sheriff, that she fell (instead of admitting that Dale punched her). Kristen finds a piece of wood with the word "evil" on it and is then surprised by her brother. In one scene, a persons bludgeoned body twitches in a pool of blood (viewers are spared the homicidal act itself). The film was shot on location in Cambridge, Kitchener, Ayr, Brougham and Toronto, Ontario. Dale Massie is a scruffy, yet muscular ex-con who claims he has no hard feelings about losing his house to these city slickers. DANA ESKELSON plays Ruby's sister, the local sheriff who drags her feet in taking action against Dale and uses some strong profanity. Its almost like the script purposely makes the audience want to dislike Leah, so they muted Stone from being able to make her presence known in the film. Which is illogical once you start thinking about it. We see a Jeep that's been set on fire. 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. The two then struggle and the intruder strikes Cooper and comments on the sound of a bone breaking. The two get into a fight at a bar, Dale and Cooper both drive away, but Dale chases him, and Cooper hits a deer in the process; Dale kills the daughter's pony, kills his dad in the nursing home (he mentions killing his family). QUICK TAKE: By entering this site you acknowledge to having read and agreed to the above conditions. Curious if this title is entertaining, any good, and/or has any artistic merit? Eskelsons rsum may not be as extensive as those of her co-stars, but thats sure to change. So well stick with him remaining drunk, which might not have been a bad idea in order to make it through the filming. Starring: Dennis Quaid, Christopher Plummer, Sharon Stone, Kristen Stewart, Juliette Lewis, Stephen Dorff, Dana Eskelson, Ryan Wilson. We see a pool of blood on the floor next to a person. 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. Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. Especially the whole 'getting a dead horse into the pool while drunk' part. We see the point of view of someone approaching Cooper. This only makes things worse, though the Tilsons cant provide the local sheriff with enough hard evidence to prove anything. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Headscratchers/ColdCreekManor. A sudden sound might startle some viewers. Think of the trouble it would be for one man, working alone, to kill a horse and dump it into a swimming pool. I had hoped this would be a mock up of the documentary Cooper Tilson was working on inside the movie. The two then struggle and the intruder strikes Cooper and comments on the sound of a bone breaking. With the locals becoming suspicious of them and Dale becoming increasingly unstable, Cooper and his family try to uncover the mystery regarding him and his former home before it's too late. Which is illogical once you start thinking about it. All rights reserved. If you are bored and have nothing else to do, why not. We see a photo of a boy holding a rifle. SUMMARY: In COLD CREEK MANOR, a family thinks they're getting away from New York City and entering a quiet haven in their new mansion in the boonies, but when the creepy former homeowner shows up and strange things start happening, the family must quickly figure out some long . Halloween is soon upon us, and this is the time for a scary movie. Moderate 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. The intruder then tries to hit Cooper who blocks those attacks with a ladder. Dale smokes a number of times, while Ruby smokes once and various miscellaneous characters smoke in several scenes. He uses some profanity, drinks and drives, and becomes jealous of his wife. MUSIC (INAPPROPRIATE) He dumped them down into "The Devil's Throat," which is a well in the woods. Moderate 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. Coopers quick trip to the corner store turns into an unscheduled drinking binge at the adjacent bar. He also suffocates his bedridden father. He and other characters consume beer, vodka and whiskey to excess. For Violence, Language and Some Sexuality, The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic, The Mandalorian Tries to Find Its Place in Third Season, The Unloved, Part 111: Devil in a Blue Dress, Female Filmmakers in Focus: Cauleen Smith on Drylongso, True Lies Fails to Capture the Charm of the James Cameron Original. GUNS/WEAPONS No, but everybody in the audience does. Meanwhile, the more Cooper digs into the history of Cold Creek Manor, the more frightened he becomes for his familys safety. Cooper drives home while a bit intoxicated shortly after drinking many shots of liquor. Rooms look beaten up, filled with the relics of the previous family, and then they are clean and neat and redone, while other rooms still have walls that barely hold the room together. Jesse is nearly struck by a vehicle when he darts out into traffic. Cold Creek Manor gets a 1 Reelrating. 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. Two people clothesline a third with a rope that they then use to tie him down to a skylight. He then puts his hands on her butt and then under her short skirt, pulling down her panties in the process. Veronica Guerin (Special Edition) Cate Blanchett. You will receive a verification email shortly. Once Dale enters the pictureand notices Cooper working on a documentary about the history of his new homestrange things start to happen. 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