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".