In Vicious (1988), Damon meets a trio of house-breakers whose lifestyle appears to offer the excitement he craves, but he quickly finds himself out of his depth when the gang's crimes escalate during a home invasion and forced to decide how far he is willing to go to survive. In The Ogre (1988), 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.