| Watchtower | |
| Director: | George Mihalka |
| Producer: | John A. Curtis Richard O. Lowry Evan Taylor Evan Tylor |
| Cinematography: | Peter Benison |
| Editing: | Glenn Berman |
| Music: | Michel Cusson |
| Studio: | Alliance Atlantis Communications Frontline Entertainment GFT Entertainment H30 Filmed Entertainment Inc. Le Monde Entertainment |
| Distributor: | Alliance Atlantis Communications |
| Runtime: | 100 minutes |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | English |
| Budget: | $CAD5,100,000 (estimated)[1] |
Watchtower (also known as Cruel and Unusual) is a 2001 Canadian thriller film[2] directed by George Mihalka and starring Tom Berenger, Rachel Hayward and Tygh Runyan.
A brother and sister move to a sleepy Oregon town and are befriended by a stranger with a magnetic personality on a summer sabbatical.
Moria.co gave the film a good review. Watchtower got three stars and the reviewer stated: "Watchtower/Cruel and Unusual offers Mihalka the best budget he has ever had to date and he does wonders with it. There is some particularly beautiful and impressive location scenery – despite being set in Seattle, the film is in actuality shot a little further up the coast in the somberly beautiful area of Vancouver Island, where Mihalka does a fine job of capturing the verisimilitude of a small fishing town."[3]
Reviewer M. Lion of the website chickflickingreviews.com called it a "well made movie" and noted that the twists were "quite fun".[4]