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Summary: Cold Creek Manor
Review: Please don't go see this movie if you are looking for a true thriller! Even with Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone (both whom I think are excellent actor/actress)in this movie it was pitiful. The movie started out so slowly and just dragged on. My husband and I kept looking at each other and saying....what is the point to this movie. Finally towards the end some tension is built, but overall, this is one of the worst movies I have seen in several years. A BIG disappointment. If you really must see it, wait for it in DVD.
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Summary: poor direction
Review: If I were to guess, I would say that this was the first piece this director has done. I know the quality acting abilities of the cast, yet their shock and surprise was over done and not believable, un natural. I believe this was due to poor direction.It was very predictable and the music tried to build tension when there wasn't really any. It was a good plot but I think it could have been done better.
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Summary: I liked it (gasp!)
Review: Of all the brainless movies of 2003 to pick on, why did it have to be Cold Creek Manor? I mean, it's not a perfect movie, but I liked it a lot better than most of the trash that was released this year (Matrix Reloaded, Fighting Temptations, X-Men 2, etc). At least Cold Creak Manor had an excellent cast, including two of my favorite actors - Sharon Stone and Dennis Quaid. I'm happy to see Sharon Stone back on the silver screen - I've really missed her and glad she is doing okay after her stroke. Her performance is great - the emotions of fear she goes through recall the silent movie queen style of Joan Crawford in Sudden Fear. As for Dennis Quaid, he is always a great and sensitive actor. I'm glad he is choosing to star with the best actresses in the business - Julianne Moore (Far From Heaven) and Sharon Stone. As for the film, it was a lot of fun! It was suspenseful and scary and was overall very entertaining. This film has basically suffered the same fate of Jessica Lange's Hush a few years ago - slightly flawed, but vastly underrated! The best part of this movie was when the actors woke up to find the house full of snakes. I jumped and screamed when Quaid was putting his hand under the fridge and I caused everyone else to jump and scream at the same time! It was so funny and great.
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Summary: Cold Creek Manor 5 out of 5 Masterpieace
Review: This movie was a rollercoaster ride. It still makes me think sometimes. I dont understand why people would give it such a teriable rating such as an 2 out 5 WOW!. This movie was a thriller masterpieace as Alfred Hitchocks. I think it beats PSYCHO. It includes a good topic good setting and great plot from start to end.
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Summary: This House Sucks
Review: Cold Creek Manor was supposed to be a shocking thriller with a great cast. It wasnt. This movie had no thrills, no chills. One lame jump that happens after you completly sink into stupidity.
Sharon Stone and Dennis Quaid were average with their roles. The real stars were Juliette Lewis and Stephen Dorff. Stephen Dorff perfectly embodies a crazed man who deperately wants his house back. Juliette Lewis is amazing as his ... girlfriend who keeps you begging for her presence to continue endlessly. Cold Creek Manor tells the story of a couple who find that the city is destroying their lives and the lives of their children. One day they go searching for a home and stumble upon a fenced mansion, whose gate happens to open. They go inside the house and look around. A policewoman finds them and tells them they have to leave because they are tresspassing and if they go now she won't get them in trouble. They leave, but eventually buy the house. Dennis Quaid, who plays a documentary filmmaker, finds the previous occupants whole family history and decides this will be his next film, the story of Cold Creek Manor. One day Stephen Dorff comes wandering through the house and Quaids sons tells. They ask what he is doing and he explains that it was his house and he lost it due to late payments. Later, Dennis and Sharon are talking about redesigning and Dorff asks if they'll hire him to help since he knows the place best. They hire him. Soon things begin to turn crazy as Dorff shows signs that he wants the house that belongs to him and he'll do anything to get them out. Quaid at the same time begins to investigate the mysterious happenings of Cold Creek Manor and is shocked by his research. This movie is horrendously predictable and not a tad scary. I was hoping that this was going to be one of the best thrillers of the year, but that didnt happen. Wait for the video folks, this one, sadly, is not theater material.
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Summary: Entertaining for a couple of hours
Review: Well, guys, why do you have to be so critical??? No, This was not the Shining but it was a pretty good story, realistic and mostly believable. I think Steven Dorff is top notch and I am hoping this is his big break through. I have seen all of his work and he gets better. Sure there were some far fetched things in this movie but it was entertaining if you ignored the outlandish stuff. Juliet Lewis is much more attractive than this movie showed. This movie won't win any academy awards but i enjoyed it.
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Summary: Nothing New Here. Strictly Formula.
Review: Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone play a New York couple with two kids who realize that the city is no place to raise a family. They pack up their brood and move to upstate New York where they find this nice large home that they move in. Quaid, a documentary filmmaker, soon begins investigating the family that previously lived in the house as part of a documentary. Along the way, he hires the man who used to live in the house to fix up their pool. Accidents start happening, and Quaid soon realizes that the man he hired wants them out of the house for his own personal reasons. This movie is a by-the-book thriller that is drawn out and downright dull at parts. It does have it's suspenseful moments, but they are few and far between. Unfortunately the movie relies on the previously successful formula for this genre, which accounts for the predictability and boredom while watching this movie. There are better films in this genre, and my suggestion would be to find those and rent them instead. This movie just isn't that good.
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Summary: It will leave you with a bad taste in days to come
Review: This is the kind of film that you can dismiss the time you see it as "ehhh", but in the time to come after that it annoys you. Not because of the snakes sequence, which does make you jump (but that is pure manipulation), but rather because of the incredibly poorly written script. How did these stars get talked into this? Was there more in the script that got cut? All I know is that I can't imagine how this got the greenlight at all. A script is not just written. It is constructed. There are supposed to be story arcs. The characters are supposed to be important to the story. If you put people into a new setting, both the people and the people they encounter should have their characters change in some way by the film's end. They shouldn't come out of it the same way they went in. If the script for this film were the blueprint for a house, the house would fall apart completely because no thought was given into joining the sections into an interlocking whole. I can't stand Juliette Lewis in the first place, but her presence would ar least indicate she is going to play a looney girlfirend who might be the secret villain. As it is, she gets hit by her boyfriend, and her sister, a sheriff, defends her. The sheriff gets killed and Lewis discovers her body, and knows her boyfriend did it, but does she do anything about it? Nope. She just comes in again at the tail end of the movie to put flowers on the grave of her boyfriend, then casts a look at the house. This much as anything probably indicates that she will be the psycho who wrecks havoc on them in a sequel, which is probably the only reason Lewis took the role in the first place. There are two people running a local diner who become the only friends Stone and Quaid have in the film. Their characters serve no essential part of the story. The locale is supposedly upstate NY, but looks more like the backwoods of Tennessee or some such area. Stone and Quaid have taken the kids away from NYC because it is too dangerous, but nothing is ever mentined in the new residence about their being any school there for them (they live in a manor house that looks secluded, away from any other people whatsoever). Leaving the diner/bar one night, Quaid is chased by the maniac, but the character who does the chasing is just out of jail, broke, and has no transportation. Yet somehow he is driving this new, highpowered truck with multiple headlights. Quaid is a documentary filmmaker but it is an occupation that is briefly used - no, I mean "wasted" - in the plot. There is a sequence when the main scary guy is shown to be the real killer - where's the suspense in that? - and throws Stone down a deep well where he has previously tossed his own family that he killed years before. He leaves her there to die, knowing Quaid will come after her. Quaid is defenseless at the top of the well while he is helping Stone out of it, but does the killer come up behind him and toss him in? No, uh uh. He doesn't do anything. Quaid gets her out without any problem whatsoever. It's a wasted sequence. Why throw someone down the well but never try to keep her from escaping or at least use it to get the next person in line into the same possible predicament? I could go on and on about how badly this is all done, but you get the idea. Save your money and use it to see something better. Anything else would have to be.
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Summary: A generous two stars. Dennis Quad deserves better.
Review: I was very dissapointed with this movie. The hype and previews were great and got ya real interested, but the movie was slow and boring at times. Many things were left unexplained such as how do you get a dead horse in a pool without anyone knowing? And what's more, how do you get him out? And what ever happened to the sheriff at the end. Does she croak or live? She was a good character that should have been more developed. The nudity and sex scene was unnecessary to the plot. Don't waste your money.
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Summary: It's okay. Not really that good.
Review: At least it was an effort. Not to scary. I laughed more than I jumped. Most of it is predictable. TOO predictable. But I'm a jaded horror fan. So my oppinion doesn't matter. I know all the tricks. I'm not just saying that either, the only reason I know all the tricks is because I've seen basically all of them. So if you're not an avid horror film watcher, then I suggest you see it.
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