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Summary: Silly Suspense
Review: This DVD is described as a "heart-pounding thriller" with "tension filled suspense"......it fails.Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone buy an old home in the boonies (120 acres and a manor for $210K...yeah right!) and never question any of the strange events that occur. Like a weirdo who shows up in your house looking through your things. Instead this guy, played by Stephen Dorff, gets a good meal and a job. As for suspense, it only happens during the snake scene and when the two city ding-dongs are standing over a pit....you just know one of them will be pushed in! All in all this movie could have been interesting if only the characters would not have been so incredibly weak and stupid. Worth watching but not buying unless you adore mindless scare tactics.
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Summary: Just a Cheap Thriller with Shockingly Bad Results
Review: Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, and Stephen Dorff star in this awful thriller directed by Mike Figgis. Excuse me? Figgis? Yes, that man who brought us "Leaving Las Vegas." The story is a very standard one; so standard that you can predict the next move. OK, Dennis Quaid is a documentary film director, who happens to be fed up with the life in New York City, and goes to the country where he buys a mortgaged mansion. Luckily his wife Sharon Stone is happy to follow him, it seems, and so is their lovely daughter. But now, a character played by Stephen Dorff comes into the house, claiming that it was once HIS house. I don't know why, but Quiad's character somehow allows this suspicious-looking guy to clean up and repair the swimming pool, and before you know it, something weird begins to happen, terrorizing the entire family into a frenzy. Plus, there must be something very evil about the house, like dead people, perhaps. If you buy something expensive like a big house, you check the history of it before you do it. In "Cold Creek Manor" they don't. If you witness some terrible accident in the house, you think about moving out before another one happens. In here, they don't. The impossible decisions these chracters make are often laughable. See how they run when they see scary things crawling on the floor (I leave that part unnamed); the family all run upstairs desperately, like the poor victims in some cheap horror films do. The story is too long, and the ending is telegraphed from miles away. And when the acting of always reliable Dennis Quiad is not good, what can I say?
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Summary: Hitchcockian Mystery
Review: Inspite of what other people have said about this movie, this was not as bad as they say. It is in the steps of Alfred Hitchcock, meaning that the movie is slow, but in every scene, a new clue comes to life, giving you more possiblities upon who dunnit!
"Down the Devil's Throat"
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Summary: One of the worst endings ever
Review: This movies ok-even though it all seems too familiar as it plods along-but the ending ruins what little quality writing snuck it's way into the story now and then. Not to ruin the movie for those who haven't seen it--the stunt with the rope that does in the villain--is pathetically unrealistic--and no villain would ever put up such feeble resistance in an attempt to escape such a "trap"--especially one as crazed as Dorff is made out to be.
I don't really recommend this movie--but if you're bored with nothing better to do--it's an ok way to squander away a couple of hours.
Another thing I found tedious about this movie was the role reversals-the husband basically acting like the stereotypical wife in these alleged "thrillers"-and the wife being portrayed in a manner like the typical male lead--with a testosterone heavy female Sherriff as well. Can anyone say "Lifetime Movies"
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Summary: Awful!
Review: This Movie is not even worthy of a review, it was the worst movie I've seen in years. It had an extremely predicatable plot, bad acting, and in my opinion did not even make sense. You could not even pay me enough to watch it again.
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Summary: Really Bad, In Spite of Fine Actors
Review: I've always like Quaid and Stone, but even both of them could not save this poorly directed, awfully scripted movie. It just doesn't work. It's affect is flat, the scenes are so poorly directed I can't believe it made it out of the studio. It's all shiny on the outside, but the inside is dry-rotted to the core. This movie is a bad apple and not even worthy of renting, unless you're studying why films don't work-out.
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Summary: lets talk sense for a moment
Review: hi guys and gals, i think its about time these things have to be said. i am absoluteley sick and tired of watching so called movie directors with a thousand years of experience and all the money in the world producing so much tv trash. This movie is yet another example of weak plot bulked up with, predictable so called "jumpy" moments, i found myself contemplating suicidal thoughts at several points in this move, feelings i have't felt sinse watching sleepy hollow. The poor plot was backed up with an even more amazingly boring ending, this movie could make members of the "watching paint drying asociation" wanna cut their wrists. Im sorry, some of you may have liked this movie, but also , im sure all 3 of you probably have a history of self harming and probably also have lifetime memberships to paint drying monthly. Needless to say, if your bored and need a movie to absolutley rip the mickey out of, yes this is for you my friend. So there you have it, if choose to ignore my advice and actually rent or god forbid buy this cinematic turd, i can only advise u pre-book the ambulance to pick you up around ten minutes after the beginning of the movie as you are quite likely to have topped yourself. happy viewing!!!!!!
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Summary: Yes, Cold Creek Manor really is THAT bad.
Review: What can I say that hasn't already been said in the previous reviews?
To call this waste of film boring, hollow and stupid would be an insult to all things boring, hollow and stupid. The plot is beyond paper thin, the acting is weak, the story itself is so predictable that anyone over the age of 10 will know exactly how the film ends after the first 15 minutes.
Honestly, I can usually find at least one redeeming aspect in almost every film I see, but this one has none...nada...zip. Even the musical score is horrible.
Do yourself a favor and stay far, far away from this one.
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Summary: Dreck
Review: If you like films with very poor acting, an extreamly weak script, and colosally stupid characters making stupid decisions then this is your kind of movie. Everyone else, stay away from this dreck.
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Summary: This film is LIFE WRECKING!
Review: Due to a friend's recommendation that this was a "really scary film", I no longer accept recommendations from them. This is the worst film I have seen in a long time. Lets skip the wooden characters, predictable plot, laughable dialogue, moronic story, and get to the really bad parts. The people in this film do some of the MOST NONSENSICAL things I have ever seen people in cinema (I use that term loosely) do. Who invites the person who is discovered trespassing (Stephen Dorff) in the foreclosed house they just purchased to dinner, and then agrees to give them a job working on the house?! NEVER MIND THE FACT THAT HE JUST TOLD YOU HE JUST GOT OUT OF JAIL!!!! NEVER MIND THE FACT THAT HE'S EYEBALLING YOUR WIFE LIKE SHE'S A PIECE OF FRIED CHICKEN!! And sadly, it just continues to go further south. After things sour between the ex-con and the family that hired him to work on the house and Dennis Quaid fires him, it's revealed that Stephen Dorff is a "town-bully", so by all means take him out for a night of drinking straight whiskey and vodka chased by beer (my stomach just did flip flops typing that) because that always smoothes an uncomfortable situation over. And then, after a verbal exchange between the two occurs, they feel free to get behind the wheel of the truck and go for a drunken chase scene on dirt roads. Just when you think this film cannot get worse, it keeps getting worse. If you feel compelled to spend 1.5 to 2 hours of your valuable time\life that you will never get back, on a really poor excuse for a film, this is the one. Don't say I didn't warn you.
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