title: Cruel and unusual
text: # Cruel and unusual
  
  Cruel and unusual is commonly used to describe certain controversial forms of physical punishment, for which see:
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Cruel and Unusual (comics), a 1999 comic book series
  * Cruel and Unusual (2006 film), a 2006 documentary film
  * Cruel and Unusual (2014 film), a 2014 thriller film
  * Cruel and Unusual (novel), a novel by Patricia Cornwell
  * Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order, a book by Mark Crispin Miller
  * Cruel and Unusual Films, an American film production company
  * Watchtower (2001 film), a 2001 Canadian thriller film also released under the title Cruel and Unusual
  