Cold Creek Manor 2003

Critics score:
12 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: Has just enough craft to make it worth exploring. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: ... a good-looking thriller by an excellent director with strong performances from Sharon Stone and Dennis Quaid -- yet it's oddly flat, with an exasperating plot, lots of strange turns and hardly any legitimate scares. Read more

Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: A logical, emotionally resonant thriller. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: The movie ultimately belongs to Mr. Dorff, whose villain is as frightening as any human reptile to have slithered onto the screen in quite some time. Read more

Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: It's twinged with requisite boo scares, void of deeply complicated twists and often haphazard with basic logic. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The film is a disquieting and often very funny examination of yuppie unease in the country. The problem is, it's disguised as a dopey suspense thriller. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Writer Richard Jefferies' solid script emphasizes character and psychology over plot and provides Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone with engaging, multidimensional starring roles. Read more

Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: At least it has a subtext, which is more than you can say for many big studio releases. Read more

Michael Booth, Denver Post: Never achieves the promise offered by a likable family, believably spooky townies and rich atmospherics. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Stone, with her dry-ice charisma, does everything that an actress should except connect to whomever she happens to be facing on screen. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Cold Creek Manor will leave you cold. That's an easy but totally honest summation. Read more

Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: 'You should've stayed in New York,' Dorff warns, long before which the audience has realized it should've stayed home to snuggle up instead with Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: Cold Creek Manor is bad on purpose. It's just not bad enough. Read more

Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: Simply banal, unless you are renovating a house and can identify with the chill that comes from signing all those expensive change orders. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Another one of those movies where a demented fiend devotes an extraordinary amount of energy to setting up scenes for the camera. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: At the beginning, Cold Creek Manor almost makes you believe it could deliver all that and more. Instead, it follows the weary, well-worn path of so many contemporary scare-fests. Read more

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: Hokum with a big-budget gloss, it's a simple, formulaic nail-biter. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Quaid ... caps his recent string of successes with one of the most irritating and useless movie heroes of all time. Read more

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Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: In mechanical terms, Figgis can't seem to generate anything resembling a genuine startle or moment of suspense, and his sense of internal dramatic logic seems as cracked and flimsy as the tiling on the estate pool. Read more

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Claudia Puig, USA Today: Quaid does his level best with a lame character, but Stone sinks under the weight of a thankless role. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: Read more