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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
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
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