Cold Creek Manor





A disgrace to movie-making. F

YAY!!!

this movie i sooO great!! one of the best of 2003!!, the acting was great, very well done! =D> =D> \:D/

A

So not true, everything about it SUCKED, the acting sucked, the story sucked, horribly boring its a total waste of time

The snakes scenes was so stupid i laughed my ass off!

D

Oh, lord. You scared me for a second, matatonio.

hehe :wink:

This was on tv yesterday, I was going to watch it but my cousin was watching SCARY MOVIE 3.

It wasn't as bad as everyone said it was. I actually found it to be passable entertainment.

6/10 (B-)

I found it okay not really scarey but still pretty good b-

Your mom is passable entertainment. Cold Creek Manor on the other hand is anything but. D-

How did this film get made?, 7 October 2003



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How did that film get made? I'm sure that we have all seen some colossally bad films. Every one of us who comes here have been to the movies one too many times and we rent and buy at will.

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Well, yesterday, I saw Cold Creek Manor and Out of Time. Now, Out Of Time was a very well done film and it had me riveted much of the time. But this post is not about Denzel's latest film. No, sadly, this is about that charlatan of a film called Cold Creek Manor.

CCM in the trailer will have you believe that it is a film that is a super natural thriller. Well, not only is it not a supernatural thriller, it is about a guy who wants his house back. No kidding folks, this is the extent of the film. Stephen Dorff plays a guy who just got out of prison and he has lost his guargantuan house because the bank foreclosed on it. The Tilson's do everything legal and buy the house from the bank and move in. Then Dorff comes back from prison and basically wants the house back. He pretends to make friends with the Tilsons but is really just there to terrorize them by doing things like putting poisonous snakes in their house, killing the pet horse, threatening Cooper in public, causing fights and hitting the sheriff's sister in public. He has done enough to go back to prison for years but of course the "townsfolk" are scared of him because he is so tough and psychotic and no one wants to mess with him. And of course when he gets in a bar fight, he kicks the s*** out of everyone. Clearly, this guy is Arnold Schwarzenegger and can kick the hell out of everyone. And even when he does all of this, the sheriff just tells him to back off and leave. This is all done to convenience the screenplay because if he would have been tossed in jail, the movie would have ended.

What else happens? Let's see, we have the classic "wife doesn't believe her husband when a criminal comes into her house " scenario. You have the classic run up the stairs onto the roof in the middle of a rainstorm when a killer is stalking you scenario (instead of running out the front door). And of course you have the talking killer scenario where instead of just killing the victim he tells them what he is going to do to them and gives them enough time to devise a plan to thwart him.

Then there was the time when Dorff could have just gotten rid of both of the Tilson's by throwing them in the well. No, I am not kidding, there is a well in this film where Dorff threw his family after he killed them. I expected to see a TV later on and some creepy music and watch Samara come out of it and kill the Tillson's. Luckily that didn't happen.

Then of course you have the white trailer trash slut bag that bangs the con whenever he feels like it and then gets beat up by him. Lots of thought must have went into writing this complex character. I mean, this film is so thin in the script that it makes Gigli look like American Beauty.

Now, the bulk of this rant comes down to this. This is one of the worst scripts that I have ever seen put into film in my life. Nothing makes sense and nothing in it is shocking or plausible. These characters are carbon copies of all the worst scenarios you could imagine in film....and worse.

And finally it brings me to this question. If a script like this is getting made, can you imagine the ones that aren't? I mean it folks, this is one of the worst films you can imagine and it got a good director to direct and a decent cast to star in it. It had Touchstone Pictures (Disney) and Beuna Vista backing it. I mean this is a major production and this film and script suck ass. How can this get made? How and why is my question. If a film like this is allowed to get printed and distributed, it gives us all hope. How hard can it be to write a screenplay like this? It isn't. There are so many ideas that so many of us have, all you have to do is find a way to get your script looked at and if it sucks, it'll still probably get made.

Cold Creek Manor is a microcosm of what is wrong with Hollywood. They lie to us and expect us to support tripe like this and I am frankly sick of it. This has been the worst year for films that I can ever remember. And Cold creek Manor is the exclamation point in a year of disasters.

How did this film get made? I have no idea, but because it did, we can all get a half a million dollar paycheck and write do-do like this. Hate your job? Take two weeks off, write a script, get an agent and watch your awful script get made.

C-


Hmmm, I am not sure why it is so hated around here, but I certainly have seen worse. It is not a good movie by any means, it is sub par, actually. But there are much worse ones out there and it does a decent DTV flick actually with an A-list cast. Its problem is that it tries to sell itself as a horror movie at first and pretends to be so unpredictable whereas anyone who has seen a single thriller of this kind in his/her life, knows how this will turn out. Quaid and Stone are okay, Stephen Dorff does the best job with his OTT performance. Juliette Lewis is frankly useless here. Well, at least I wasn't bored.

dump. boring. stupid movie..

bad bad acting (please Quaid stop giving 'that look').. except for Stephen Dorff which was still okay..

D-

I can't believe I bought this movie! Why did I think it's gonna be a fine flick?

Yeah, seriously, why?!

trailer, perhaps??

I remember, that I was looking forward to this movie quite very much back then.. but it didn't get theatrical release over here.. so, I haven't got a chance to see it since then...