''Watchtower'' (also known as ''Cruel and Unusual'') is a 2001 Canadian

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directed by

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and starring

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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

as Art Stoner *

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

External links

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Watchtower at Moria.co

Watchtower at BBFC

Watchtower at Movie-Roulette
2001 films 2000s thriller films Canadian thriller films English-language Canadian films Films set in Oregon 2000s English-language films Films directed by George Mihalka 2000s Canadian films {{2000s-Canada-film-stub