5/5 COLD creek Manor
  by Cooper (Miami, Fl.)
The movie was great and it was in excellent condition. It was a horror mystery flick. I enjoyed it immensely

3/5 it was OK
  by D. Vavra (TX)
Im was kinda on the side of the killer. I wanted those yuppies to die.

2/5 Derivative stalker in a mansion movie
  by Mr. Stephen Kennedy (Doha, Qatar)
This movie smells of class, with a decent cast (Sharon Stone, Dennis Quaid) and respected `character' director, Mike Figgis. So what went wrong..? The result is not exactly a mess, it's clearly carefully crafted.. but carefully crafted into something that is simply not exciting, and manages to squander the moments of occasional suspense that do build up. A fatal flaw in a movie that lies in the stalker / thriller genre.
Dennis Quaid, his wife Sharon Stone, and their young son and daughter, uproot from the city to find a quieter safer life for their family. They buy a run down manor, which still has the possessions from the original owners. Then one of those former residents turns up - recently released from jail - and he wants to help in the house renovations.... Of course, things start to go south, tensions mount, and the history of the house threatens to engulf the new owners.
There are some nice scenes with the cast, including Christopher Plummer almost unrecognizable as a curmudgeonly old foul mouthed man, and Juliette Lewis, as trailer trash girlfriend... however, the sum of the parts adds up to something less that it should. In fact, when the ending comes, you're liable to be happy for all the wrong reasons.
Not a disaster, but by no means a success either, this should appeal to genre enthusiasts only.


2/5 MIKE FIGGIS, OPUS 12
  by wdanthemanw (Geneva, Switzerland)
*1/2 2003. Directed by Mike Figgis. A NYC family buys a house in the country. The mansion's former owner starts to harass them. A surprisingly bad movie from the British director who never manages to enthrall us with a story seen a hundred times. I really don't know what happened to the inspired director of Internal Affairs, Leaving Las Vegas and One Night Stand. There are several themes in COLD CREEK MANOR that could have been interesting to evolve like the difficulty for an urban family to integrate in a small town or the implied sexual elements of the story for instance. Instead, we have to watch a pseudo horror movie without any originality. Inadvisable.

5/5 Review
  by Paul S. Randazzo (Platte City MO)
Gave this to my wife as a christmas gift. Both of us watched this in the movie theater. We both loved it very much.