The Ogre

This movie did take a while to get going, there are far to many subs plots in this movie, they focused on to many other things in the first 20 mins of the movie.

That where the thing start to really happen, it maybe little over the top and silly at times, which I wish they explained that scene.

I did enjoyed second part of the movie, a bit more then first half, I enjoyed the transformations was decent but not as good as the first.

I didn't really find this movie that gory, no were near as gory as the first and some of effects looks a bit off however there were some decent effects here and there.

The acting was not that great, I just found that fighting scenes with demons just silly not even funny.

5 out of 10

I really wanted to like this film,especially after watching the beginning,which was creepy enough to keep me on the edge of my seat.Unfortunately "The Ogre" becomes quickly boring and unintentionally funny at times.There's absolutely no gore and the underwater sequence near the climax totally rips-off similar(and much better executed)scene in Dario Argento's brilliant "Inferno"(1980).The main actress is really annoying,but overall I liked the Gothic feeling of this film.The setting(an old Italian castle)is a nice touch.5 out of 10.

This is an Italian made for TV movie directed by Lamberto Bava, the man who directed the excellent Demons and its reasonably good sequel, however despite its title this is in no way part of the series. And for that reason I felt cheated when it was initially released on VHS, plus the fact that it is frankly a bad movie. Most of the "action" takes place at an Italian castle, this and the rural locations are nice, plus the Simon Boswell soundtrack is very good. Sadly the movie is slow, boring, the acting is wooden, there is very little in the way of blood or gore and Bava blatantly steals Argento's underwater scene from Inferno, only this time we get skeletons and ghouls that look like cheap Halloween decorations. As for the actor in the suit and wearing an Ogre mask, rubbish! Demons 3 The Ogre is a perfect example of the decline of the once great Italian horror movie.

A pretty blond horror fiction author and her family rent a house in Italy as a getaway. I guess being a horror writer is really lucrative, because this is some vacation home--the mansion looks like it would have its own zip code! It's all good-times until she goes down to the basement and realizes that it's the same horrific place that haunted her nightmares as a child. This "entry" in the "Demons" series isn't just another variation of the first film, which is refreshing. Apparently this Lamberto Bava film originally aired on television, but it doesn't really have a tacky 80s made-for-TV feel. It's only a sequel in name, and instead of demons possessing humans, we have a big man in a hairy mask (The Ogre?) terrorizing the family and their friends. Not a bad movie, but it gets sillier as it progresses. Still, I enjoyed it more than "Black Demons" and maybe even "Demons 2."

For the sake of convenience and, of course, to reach wider audiences, this modest made-for-TV horror flick got released as a second sequel to the hugely popular "Demons"-franchise. Apart from the fact that Lamberto Bava directed them all, there aren't any similarity between "the Ogre" and the previous two "Demons" films. "Demons" (as well as its dull sequel) is a gross and outrageous splatter flick, whereas "The Ogre" is an attempt at an atmospheric spook-tale.

The amount of bloodshed and hideous make-up effects in this film is very limited (also because it's a TV-production), and bad-boy Bava even attempts to insert some style & subtlety. The plot isn't very convincing and contains a few holes, but still the premise is interesting enough to hold your attention for a good 90 minutes. We're introduced to a female horror writer who keeps having the same nightmare ever since she was a little girl. 22 years later, she and her family are spending a vacation in an ancient Italian mansion and this setting strangely resembles the one in her dream; - especially the ominous cellar. Events identical to the ones in her nightmare start to come true and it seems like there really is a monster living in the cellar.

This creature is an "Ogre", but he has nothing in common with Shrek! The film offers a little bit of suspense, but could have used a lot more action! There are too many overlong and pointless scenes in which the heroine just walks though the mansion, but even though the ominous music gets louder, nothing happens! The acting is fair, and Virginia Bryant definitely is a fine looking lady (there's a bath-sequence to confirm this statement).