Cold Creek Manor Page #4

Synopsis: Wanting to escape city life for the countryside, New Yorkers Cooper Tilson (Quaid), his wife Leah (Stone) and their two children move into a dilapidated old mansion still filled with the possessions of the previous family. Turning it into their dream house soon becomes a living nightmare when the previous owner (Dorff) shows up, and a series of terrifying incidents lead them on a spine-tingling search for clues to the estate's dark and lurid past...
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Director(s): Mike Figgis
Production: Buena Vista Pictures
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
4.9
Metacritic:
37
Rotten Tomatoes:
12%
R
Year:
2003
118 min
Website
307 Views


Jesse!

Jesse! Jesse!

- Oh! Oh, God!

- Jesse!

- Oh, God! Don't move!

- Don't move!

- Don't move!

- Don't move!

- Don't move!

- Why?

- Just stay there!

- It's a snake.

Oh, my God!

It's a wire. It's a wire.

Come on!

Oh!

Calm down.

Everybody, calm down!

Up!

Up the stairs!

Go!

Go!

Up! Up! Up!

Go! Go!

Go! Go!

Hey. Is everything

all right up there?

There's snakes!

There's a snake!

There's snakes everywhere!

We're coming up.

Hey, Chester.

- You okay, Dec?

- Yeah.

They're coming down.

All right, Jess. You ready?

You got a clear path.

You're gonna be okay.

My boys are down there.

Hang on to the side.

We want to get you

out of the house.

- You got him, Dec?

- Yeah.

Seriously.

No more snakes.

No problem.

Come on. I promise you.

- Hang on to my hand.

- You can do it.

All right, sweetie.

Hang on to the side.

All right, Mrs. Tilson.

You ready?

Yeah. No.

You got it.

I promise you.

We want to get you

out of the house.

Hang on to my hands.

Okay?

All right.

Oh. Thank you so much.

You're welcome.

Declan, meet her halfway, okay?

You okay?

Yeah.

- Go ahead.

- Thank you.

All right.

Coming down.

Mr. Tilson, take it slow.

We all clear, Declan?

Honey. Sweetheart.

They assured us

there's no more snakes.

Hi, Dale.

Uh, there's more food

if you're hungry.

No, thanks, Mrs. Tilson.

I really came to say goodbye.

Where are you going?

Listen.

I understand how you feel.

Might have been more manly

to tell me to my face, though.

You're right.

And I apologize.

Well...

It was a pleasure

meeting you all.

It was a pleasure

meeting you, Dale.

Great job integrating

with the locals.

It's for the best.

The best for who?

You?

Maybe we should go feed Chester.

Why?

Oh.

Miller time.

Jesse, I've told you 18 times

that that's not what it means.

Then what does it mean?

I thought it was

the right thing to do.

What is your problem with him?

That guy put the snakes

in our house.

Why would he do that?

Because he still thinks

this is his house.

He wants us out.

Oh, come on.

I'm sorry, Cooper.

But I'm having trouble

relating to this.

Well, you don't seem to have

a hard time relating to him.

Meaning what, exactly?

You know exactly

what I'm talking about.

Dave Miller asked me

to sleep with him.

What?

Dave Miller.

Yeah.

Dave Miller.

Hit on me on the airplane.

He offered me the VP spot

and then asked me to spend

the night with him in Chicago.

- What did you do?

- What did I do?

I moved out here into the middle

of nowhere with you.

I turned into

some 19th-century housewife.

Which was great for a while.

It felt like this weight

was lifted off my shoulders.

And you were supposed to

carry us through.

But that is not

what's happening.

- We're drowning here.

- No. No.

- And it is time to get out.

- No. That's not what I said.

What did you do?

I said yes.

But then I called you

on the phone.

And that was the day

that Jesse was very nearly

killed by that car.

Cooper, that was

a wake-up call for me.

So...

That's why you agreed to

come out here, right?

Hey, buddy.

Hey.

Hey. How are you?

I understand

Steph and Kristen,

they're gonna go on a shopping

spree with their moms.

Yeah, yeah.

Can I buy you a drink?

Uh, no.

I got to get back.

One beer's not gonna kill you.

No.

Look, Cooper.

Word to the wise.

Be cool around here, okay?

I didn't come here

to start a war, Ray.

Exactly.

All I'm saying is come in,

buy a round of drinks.

Show there's no hard feelings

between you and Dale.

What do you say?

Come on.

I'll buy you a beer.

Come on.

Drinks on Mr. Tilson.

Thanks, Mr. Tilson.

Appreciate it.

Take the shot, man.

Take the shot.

I want to play the game.

Corner.

You still buying?

Yeah.

What are you drinking?

Vodkas.

Two.

Two?

One for me, one for you.

Right.

Cheers.

Two more.

It's Cooper, right?

Yeah.

Ruby.

You're a funny guy, Cooper.

Well...

Funny...

Here. Let me help you

with that one.

Such a gentleman.

- Didn't you hear what I said?

- No.

No, I didn't.

What?

Don't f*** with him.

He'll rip your f***ing head off.

You got another one of these?

It's my birthday.

What do you say?

Happy birthday.

Mmm.

Thank you.

Another round.

Cheers.

One more.

No. No. No.

None for me.

I got to get going.

That is true,

Mr., uh, City Slicker.

Mr. F***in' Coop.

Get out of my face.

And get out of my home.

I know you put the snakes

in my house.

Oh, yeah?

Yeah.

Why don't you try

and prove that?

Let me give you some advice.

Don't you ever...

come to my house again.

And if you harm one hair

on my family's head,

I will kill you.

Ooh.

Did you hear that, sheriff?

This man's threatening my life.

How much?

Scratch!

Come on.

Loosen up.

I'm trying to play a game

right now.

Dale, I'm gonna...

- You ever f***in' shut up?

- Hey, Dale...

You just never shut

the f*** up, do you, Ruby?

You're not a man.

- You're not a f***ing man, Dale!

- Oh, yeah?

You gonna keep talking to me?

Is that it?

Dale, don't!

What are you doing?

Dale!

Get the f*** off me!

Dale! Wait!

Dale!

Stop it!

Enough! Enough!

Back the f*** away, Massie.

Back up!

Step away!

I got enough

to throw you back inside

for the next five years,

you piece of sh*t.

Annie.

You touch my sister ever again,

I swear to God it'll be the last

thing you ever f***ing do.

Annie, he didn't touch me, okay?

I fell.

I've been drinking, and I fell.

He didn't touch me, okay?

You made your point.

Are we done?

Get the f*** out of here.

A**hole.

God!

What happened to the car?

It's all bloody and broken.

And everybody's out there.

Mom's out there.

- She seems a little bit mad.

- Huh?

So what happened?

Did you hit something?

Did you hit another car?

- Oh. Oh.

- What happened?

What'd you hit?

It was a deer.

Couldn't stop.

Jumped right in front of me.

What happened to you

last night?

Mom, Dad, come here!

- What?

- Hurry up!

There's something over here!

Come on!

- What's going on?

- What's wrong?

Now what?

What is it?

Oh! Cooper!

Bastard!

You killed my pony!

Kris. Kris, wait up.

Wait for me!

Oh, my God.

Kristen!

You want us

to take care of this, Mr. T?

I didn't do this.

I didn't hit the pony.

Just leave her alone.

She's crying.

It was Dale.

Oh.

Last night at the bar,

there was this thing.

It was a fight.

- And Dale and I spoke.

- Were you drinking?

Yes.

But I did not kill Chester.

How many?

So you were drinking

and you hit a deer.

You are absolutely sure

that it was a deer?

Yes, I was absolutely sure

it was a deer.

Leah, you have got to

believe me.

Last night,

Dale, he would've killed Stan

if the sheriff hadn't drawn

a gun on him.

And he punched out

his girlfriend.

If the sheriff hadn't

been there,

I don't know

what would've happened.

Let's get out of here.

Right now.

From whatever is happening.

Okay?

We promised we would never put

these kids at risk.

Let's just go back.

Go back to what?

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Richard Jefferies

John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 – 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction. Jefferies's corpus of writings includes a diversity of genres and topics, including Bevis (1882), a classic children's book, and After London (1885), an early work of science fiction. For much of his adult life, he suffered from tuberculosis, and his struggles with the illness and with poverty also play a role in his writing. Jefferies valued and cultivated an intensity of feeling in his experience of the world around him, a cultivation that he describes in detail in The Story of My Heart (1883). This work, an introspective depiction of his thoughts and feelings on the world, gained him the reputation of a nature mystic at the time. But it is his success in conveying his awareness of nature and people within it, both in his fiction and in essay collections such as The Amateur Poacher (1879) and Round About a Great Estate (1880), that has drawn most admirers. Walter Besant wrote of his reaction on first reading Jefferies: "Why, we must have been blind all our lives; here were the most wonderful things possible going on under our very noses, but we saw them not." more…

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