The Ogre is a 1989 Italian television horror film directed by Lamberto Bava and written by Dardano Sacchetti.

Cheryl, an American writer of horror novels, travels with her husband Tom, and their young son Bobby, to a villa in rural Italy for a few weeks of vacation, and for Cheryl to work on her latest book.

Cheryl must find a way to face her fear and somehow defeat the ogre before it starts claiming victims.

[3] 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.

[4] Sacchetti countered these claims, stating that the films were not the same story but were "part of [his] poetics regarding home and children: a recurring theme which I have explored several times with different shades, but also with assonances.