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2001 Canadian thriller film

Watchtower
Film poster
Directed by	George Mihalka
Written by	Rod Browning Robert Geoffrion Dan Witt
Produced by	John A. Curtis Richard O. Lowry Evan Taylor Evan Tylor
Starring	Tom Berenger Rachel Hayward Tygh Runyan
Cinematography	Peter Benison
Edited by	Glenn Berman
Music by	Michel Cusson
Production companies	Alliance Atlantis Communications Frontline Entertainment GFT Entertainment H30 Filmed Entertainment Inc. Le Monde Entertainment
Distributed by	Alliance Atlantis Communications
Release date	December 19, 2001 (2001-12-19)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	English
Budget	$CAD5,100,000 (estimated)

Watchtower (also known as Cruel and Unusual) is a 2001 Canadian thriller film directed by George Mihalka and starring Tom Berenger, Rachel Hayward and Tygh Runyan.

Premise

A brother and sister move to a sleepy Oregon town and are befriended by a stranger with a magnetic personality on a summer sabbatical.

Cast

Tom Berenger as Art Stoner
Rachel Hayward as Kate O'Conner
Tygh Runyan as Mike O'Conner

Reception

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."

Reviewer M. Lion of the website chickflickingreviews.com called it a "well made movie" and noted that the twists were "quite fun".

References

"Budget". IMDB. Archived from the original on 9 April 2017. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
"Watchtower (2001)". 11 September 2003. Archived from the original on 30 October 2019. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
"WATCHTOWER aka CRUEL AND UNUSUAL". Moria.co. 11 September 2003. Archived from the original on 14 April 2017. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
"Movie Review: "Cruel and Unusual" (Aka "Watchtower")". 2 January 2014. Archived from the original on 30 October 2019. Retrieved 30 October 2019.

External links

v t e Films directed by George Mihalka
Pick-up Summer (1980) My Bloody Valentine (1981) Scandale (1982) The Blue Man (1985) Shades of Love: Midnight Magic (1988) Office Party (1988) Le chemin de Damas (1988) Crossbow: The Movie (1989) Straight Line (1990) Psychic (1991) The Final Heist (1991) La Florida (1993) Relative Fear (1994) Deceptions II: Edge of Deception (1995) Bullet to Beijing (1995) The Ideal Man (1996) Windsor Protocol (1996) Thunder Point (1998) Dr Lucille: The Lucille Teasdale Story (2001) Watchtower (2001) Les Boys IV (2005) Sticks and Stones (2008) Bloodlust: My Bloody Valentine and the Rise of the Slasher Film (2009) Faith, Fraud, & Minimum Wage (2011) Black Christmas Legacy (2015) Needles (TBA)

Films directed by George Mihalka

Pick-up Summer (1980)
My Bloody Valentine (1981)
Scandale (1982)
The Blue Man (1985)
Shades of Love: Midnight Magic (1988)
Office Party (1988)
Le chemin de Damas (1988)
Crossbow: The Movie (1989)
Straight Line (1990)
Psychic (1991)
The Final Heist (1991)
La Florida (1993)
Relative Fear (1994)
Deceptions II: Edge of Deception (1995)
Bullet to Beijing (1995)
The Ideal Man (1996)
Windsor Protocol (1996)
Thunder Point (1998)
Dr Lucille: The Lucille Teasdale Story (2001)
Watchtower (2001)
Les Boys IV (2005)
Sticks and Stones (2008)
Bloodlust: My Bloody Valentine and the Rise of the Slasher Film (2009)
Faith, Fraud, & Minimum Wage (2011)
Black Christmas Legacy (2015)
Needles (TBA)

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