Cheryl, a best-selling author of horror novels, goes on vacation with her family to an ancient villa in the Italian countryside.  Legend has it the villa is said to be cursed, and very soon Cheryl realizes that the hideous ogre that haunted her dreams as a child is alive and living in the basement of this very house.  She becomes obsessed with his presence but fails to convince anyone that he exists.  It's not until the ogre kills the babysitter and kidnaps Chery's child that it becomes apparent that the stories she writes are becoming reality!