The Ogre

The Ogre (1988)

La casa dell'orco

When childhood dreams become adult nightmares fear turns into reality!

An American horror writer, haunted by childhood nightmares, moves to an old mansion in Italy with her husband and young son only to discover the nightmares were real.

Date of release
1988-11-07
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (43)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Horror, TV Movie
Director
Lamberto Bava

Casting

Interesting facts

The Ogre is a 1989 Italian television horror film directed by Lamberto Bava and written by Dardano Sacchetti. It was among four films made for the Italian television series Brivido Giallo. The film released outside of Italy as Demons III: The Ogre, where it was promoted as a sequel to Bava's films Demons and Demons 2.

Production

Following the success of the film Demons and Demons 2 and other foreign horror films in Italy, the company Reiteitalia would announce in July 1986 that a series titled Brivido giallo which would be made featuring five made-for-television films directed by Lamberto Bava. Of these films only four would be made: Graveyard Disturbance, Until Death, The Ogre and Dinner with a Vampire. The films were shot between 1987 and 1988.

The screenplay for The Ogre is similar to that of the one written for The House by the Cemetery, which at one point director Lamberto Bava was slated to direct. Bava explained that the scripts were similar as The Ogre was based on the Sacchetti's original script for The House by the Cemetery which was altered by its director Lucio Fulci.

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