Rating: 
Summary: complete garbage with a good cast
Review: this movie, i missed at the theatre.
thank god i only rented it thru net flix.
i thought by the movie trailers it was a horror-ghost storey
instead we get dennis quaid playing a coward movie maker
sharon stone, not lookin hot at all.
stephen dorff...we already know his storey and motive
at the begiinning of the film.....
it was suppose to be a " who done it "
trouble is we already know !!!!!
a women playing a elected sheriff ???????????
anytime these canada film companies get a hold of a american
law enforcement officer they ruin it, wake up people
do your home work !!!!if you have nothing else to do, then maybe watch this.
hours on the play station would have been better. thats my 2c
Rating: 
Summary: A Decent Thriller
Review: Shoot me for liking this movie, but this movie actually held my attention and I really liked the preformances from Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone and especially Stephen Dorff. Dorff always does an excellent job as the bad guy(i.e. Blade). He's just so right for it and plays it off very well. I really beleive it was the actors who saved this movie from being a dull thriller. Other than that, the movie did have a couple of good scenes to make you squirm (snakes, dead horse in a pool, dead people in the bottom of a waterhole). Not a bad movie overall.
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Summary: You Cant Be Serious
Review: The best thing in this movie is the pink underwear shot of Sharon Stone!
Rating:
Summary: Manor Care
Review: The haunted house thriller, Cold Creek Manor, was touted as a comeback of sorts for actress Sharon Stone. She had been away from the medium for quite some time, after a few health concerns and some personal problems. In the film, she got the chance to work with actor Dennis Quaid, who really impressed me in the movie Frequency. Even though the it didn't generate much buzz in theaters, I was still looking forward to seeing it anyway, as a rental. Finally putting an end to their days as slaves to the hustle-and-bustle of city life, both Cooper Tilson (Quaid) and his wife, Leah (Stone) pack up their kids and all their belongings and move into a recently vacated mansion in the backwoods of upstate New York. Once considerd a crown jewel, grand and elegant, the Cold Creek Manor is now a shambles, but Cooper and Leah have plenty of time to renovate. All's well until a series of unexplained incidents at the house lead the Tilsons to wonder who used to live in their new house. The invesigation leads them to discover that a former convicted felon, named Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff), used to live there. Now, he will do anything to have it back. While it's great to see Stone and Quaid together, and Dorff doing another quirky character, the film could have been better. Director Mike Figgis uses a very tired bag of tricks to tell his tale. Some of the film's plot borrowed from another thriller, the "clunky" What Lies Beneath and shows itself well worn here. Playing the Tilson children, Kristen (Kristen Stewart) and Jesse (Ryan Wilson) respectively, Stewart calls upon her Panic Room days and Wilson Goes for a Signs/Sixth Sense vibe Poor Juliette Lewis is wasted in the film. Cold Creek Manor just wasn't all that scary--just predictable fluff basically culled from other sources. The DVD extras are a mixed bag. The audio commentary with director Mike Figgis is ok. He is well spoken and provides in depth information about the making of the film. Although, this can be very interesting at times, like the movie itself, the commentary does begin to drag and there are few surprises along the way. There is a "bonus" alternate ending that may have actually worked better, if it had been attached to the film--but I'll let others decide for themselves. There are also a handful of deleted scenes, complete with optional commentary from Figgis. Unlike the alternate ending though, these scenes, were wisely left on the cutting room floor, and don't really add much to the film. The "Rules of the Genre" featurette includes the writer-Richard Jefferies , director and actors letting us think they do, in fact, know what elements must be present to be able to put together a thriller. The fact that they tried a too hard to make it different and Cold Creek Manor came out as contrived as it did is kinda weird considerng the talent involved. "Cooper's Documentary" goes into the making of the documentary footage seen briefly in the film. As most of the documentary angle was cut from the final version of the plot, this featurette though a nice idea, comes across as padded material. Also, much of the information here and in the other featurette can be heard in the in the commentary track. What a disappointment all the way around. See this DVD only if there's nothing else to rent
Rating:
Summary: Did this movie suck or what?
Review: If asked to sum up this movie in a single word, what word to choose -- boring? bland? predictable? trite? So many to choose from. Save your money and do not bother to purchase this movie. It is a story we have all seen before (and done much better) of evil stalker after unknowing helpless people. Problem is you will not really care about the people or believe the bad guy's motives. It is a major disappointment considering how strong the cast is. But with such weak material, even a strong cast will make a real stinker. And that is exactly what happened here.
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Summary: NOT SCARY...OR SUSPENSEFUL
Review: Cold Creek Manor stars Dennis Quaid as a documentary filmmaker Cooper Tilson who moves wife Sharon Stone and their kids from New York City to a huge hick-town fixer-upper. But they have to deal with more than leaky toilets when the home's former owner, Stephen Dorff, becomes their handyman (despite, oh, a prison record and all his menacing leering at Cooper's wife and 13 year-old daughter). The happy family soon discovers that Dorff harbors deep, dark secrets and a violent temper. The film builds itself up as some haunted-house mystery but then turns into a tedious showdown between the trespassing city slickers and the sneering redneck. But of course, if you have an IQ above 50, you probably guessed Dorf was the villian and what his dark secret is VERY early on. The suspense is gone in under the first hour, leaving you to do nothing but ride along for the final, boring, hour. The Script is as dimwitted as the casting. At one point, for instance, the family's beloved horse is found dead and floating in their swimming pool (the psycho's work). And because Quaid claimed to have, after a few drinks, accidentally hit a deer on the road the night before, his family firmly believes he did it. Now wait a minute. They think he got the horse out of its stable late at night, ran over it with his SUV, dragged the half-ton carcass across the estate and threw it in the swimming pool? And this is only one such scene that seems to have been written by an 8-year-old. Casting is a problem here. It's very tough to believe Stone, a paragon of urban savvy and aggression, as a nitwit dolt who can't hear the alarms going off all around her. Dorff, a normally dependable actor ("Backbeat"), doesn't help: Instead of soft-pedaling Massie's malice and then revving it up gradually, like the best villains, he broadcasts his badness from the very first scene. - This movie contains violence and harsh language. The director is Mike Figgis, who made his name with 1995's "Leaving Las Vegas" and has a penchant for experimental film ("Timecode"). He's way out of his element here, and the film is otherwise so talky and mannered that it never has time to raise many goose bumps. As the imperiled couple, Quaid and Stone are fairly believable, but both actors have a certain abrasive quality that keeps our sympathy at a distance. As the villain, Dorff is more effective, and strangely more likable than Quaid. But his performance falls flat in a movie this subpar, and it's hard not to notice that -- especially in the feverish climax -- he's basically doing Jack Nicholson in "The Shining."
Rating: 
Summary: 3.5 Stars for Cold Creek Manor
Review: A couple and their children pack their bags and leave the city to buy an old house out in the country. Little do they know the history that comes with their new property. This movie was a nail-biter!
Rating:
Summary: Cold Creek Manor
Review: This movie was just pitiful. This was supposed to be Sharon Stone's big return to the silver screen. She should've been more selective of the vehicle. The plot was horrible, the forshadowing was ham-fistted, and the acting was uncurable, which is a shame because I normally like Dennis Quaid.
All-in-all, stay away from this flick and go rent/buy something that had the thrills this one didn't deliver, like Pacific Heights.
Rating:
Summary: Left me cold!
Review: I hate to even give it one star because it's so dreadful. But the performances of the supporting actors-Juilette Lewis and Stephen Dorf are superb all the more so in contrast to the two leads-Sharon Stone and Dennis Quaid. I'll save you the lenghty detailed account of the plot you read in other reviews mainly because I don't want to relive it myself let alone relate it. Ms. Stone gives her worst performance to date, and Mr. Quiad is simpering in a role that requires strength. Sharon has no maternal repore with the boy and girl playing her children, and you are painfully aware that they are "acting" the part of a family. The plot also has holes big enough to drive a truck through and in the end you're left with more sympathy for the bad guy than the family. This movie is so self aware it is almost comical. Every one of the main characters lacks the charisma to engage you. You find yourself simply not caring about the fate of the family, and on the edge of your seat awaiting the credits.
Rating:
Summary: I LIKED IT!
Review: 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.
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