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===Critical response=== The movie received negative reviews from critics. It holds a 12% rating on [[Rotten Tomatoes]] based on 111 reviews, with an average rating of 3.8/10. The site's consensus states: "The plot of ''Cold Creek Manor'' is too predictable and contrived to generate suspense".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cold_creek_manor/|title=Cold Creek Manor (2003)|work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|accessdate=December 31, 2018}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]] β which assigns a weighted mean score β the film has a score of 37 out of 100 based on 31 critics, indicating "generally negative reviews".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cold Creek Manor Reviews |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/cold-creek-manor |access-date=December 1, 2022 |website=[[Metacritic]] |publisher=[[Fandom, Inc.]]}}</ref> Audiences surveyed by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film a grade "Cβ" on a scale of A+ to F.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |title= Cinemascore |url-status = dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181220122629/https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |archive-date= 2018-12-20|access-date=2021-10-28 }}</ref> [[Stephen Holden]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' observed, "A serious filmmaker like Mike Figgis can be forgiven, I suppose, for slumming, when he's got a cast as stellar as the one that infuses the scream-by-numbers thriller ''Cold Creek Manor'' with more psychological credibility than its screenplay merits". He said the film "belongs to the ''[[Cape Fear (1962 film)|Cape Fear]]'' tradition of thrillers in which the mettle of a civilized family man is tested in a life-or-death struggle with crude macho evil".<ref>[http://movies2.nytimes.com/2003/09/19/movies/19COLD.html ''The New York Times'' review]</ref> [[Roger Ebert]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' rated the film 1Β½ stars and called it "an [[anthology]] of [[cliche]]s" and "a thriller that thrills us only if we abandon all common sense". He added, "Of course, preposterous things happen in all thrillers, but there must be at least a gesture in the direction of plausibility, or we lose patience".<ref>[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030919/REVIEWS/309190302/1023 ''Chicago Sun-Times'' review]</ref> Edward Guthmann of the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' said, "As haunted-house thrillers go, ''Cold Creek Manor'' is more ludicrous than the average but at the same time more handsomely produced. Hokum with a big-budget gloss, it's a simple, formulaic nail-biter ... The script ... grafts from every possible thriller β most of which had pilfered their predecessors β and loads on implausibilities until we wonder why the actors play it seriously".<ref>[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/09/19/DD193614.DTL ''San Francisco Chronicle'' review]</ref> [[Peter Travers]] of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' rated the film one star and commented, "It's sad to see risk-taking director Mike Figgis do a generic thriller for a paycheck and then not even screw with the rules . . . the only things haunting this movie are cliches".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071002050120/http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/5947841/review/5947842/cold_creek_manor ''Rolling Stone'' review]</ref> Steve Persall of the ''[[St. Petersburg Times]]'' graded the film D and thought "all this bad acting and run-of-the-thrill dialogue might be entertaining if something would just happen besides a silly snake scare and a wan truck chase. The movie plays like an all-star episode of ''[[This Old House]]'' for the first hour, a [[telenovela]] for the next 30 minutes, then, finally, a hack boogeyman flick in the last reel. This isn't a movie, it's [[channel surfing]]".<ref>[http://www.sptimes.com/2003/09/18/Weekend/Tedium_takes_a_rural_.shtml ''St. Petersburg Times'' review]</ref> Todd McCarthy of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' called the film "a woefully predictable imperiled-yuppie-family-under-siege suspenser that hardly seems worth the attention of its relatively high-profile participants. Taking a break from his multiple-perspective digicam experiments, helmer Mike Figgis displays at best a half-hearted interest in delivering the commercial genre goods, while Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone fish in vain to find any angles to play in their dimension-free characters".<ref>[https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117921878.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&p=0 ''Variety'' review]</ref>
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