The Hagstone Demon 2011

Drama

Horror

Runtime

96 mins

Language

English

Directed by

Jon Springer

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Douglas Elmore, a burned-out investigative reporter who has never fully recovered from his wife’s suicide, accepts a temporary caretaker job at a crumbling apartment complex known as The Hagstone. What starts as a dreary, alcohol-soaked routine devolves into something far more unsettling as the building seems to breathe with him. Late one night, the ghost of Julie Elizabeth Elmore materializes, stepping into his bleak world with a cold presence that shatters his fragile grip on reality and fills his days with a growing, paralyzing fear.

Early the next day, an odd tenant named Mr. Thompson corners him with a blunt demand: remove Karna from the basement, along with her hairless cat Victoria. Moved by Karna’s fragile dignity, Douglas offers her a small apartment near the laundry room, hoping to give her some shelter from the Hagstone’s strange dynamics. The act of kindness feels at once noble and dangerous, drawing him deeper into a web of secrets he barely understands.

Seeking guidance, Douglas visits his priest brother-in-law Fr. Carl Becker. He recounts Julie’s spectral visits and the uneasy atmosphere seeping from the Hagstone, but his concern only grows when he returns to the building to find one of the tenants brutally murdered. An unfeeling Karna then asks Douglas to repair something in her apartment, which foreshadows the complicated, intimate entanglements that will soon consume him.

That night, Douglas shadows Karna through the city’s labyrinthine streets, witnessing a disturbing encounter between Karna and a pale, sinister man in a deserted alley. The scene disturbs him deeply and raises questions about Karna’s true nature, even as he remains drawn to her magnetic presence. When he returns, the tense mood among the tenants intensifies, and accusations begin to fly—Mrs. Brennan’s suspicions about Karna surface, fueling a tense confrontation that Douglas adopts and then tries to ignore.

The next day, Douglas moves through his duties in a fog of post-coital euphoria, only to discover Mrs. Brennan’s blood-streaked corpse in the rear stairwell. Detective Willis questions him with unwavering bluntness, making it clear that Douglas is now the prime suspect in both murders. Willis also hints at a plan to dig up Julie’s grave and reopen the case, a move that would unearth even darker truths beneath the Hagstone. Determined to clear his name and to protect Julie, Douglas confronts Karna and accuses her of the killings, yet finds himself overwhelmed by her overwhelming sexual power. Karna slips a drug into Douglas’s drink and carries him away to a bizarre satanic sex ritual that culminates in a human sacrifice.

Douglas wakes up in Barbara Halloway’s apartment, where she urges him to abandon the Hagstone for good. He refuses, and in a surge of desperation, breaks down Karna’s apartment door only to find an empty, abandoned space. Barbara ferries him to his brother-in-law Carl, and the trio grows convinced that demonic forces are using the police to exhumate Julie’s body for some unholy purpose. They travel to the cemetery, where they find Detective Willis murdered at Julie’s grave and the stakes suddenly feel impossibly high.

Returning to confront the dark powers inhabiting The Hagstone, Douglas, Barbara, and Carl face off against the fully demonized versions of Karna (the succubus) and her incubus pimp, Mr. Thompson. In a brutal cascade of revelation, Douglas discovers Julie’s corpse buried deep within the Hagstone’s sub-basement. The body re-animates, overpowers him, and escapes, killing Carl in the process. The trio then challenges Karna’s monstrous transformed cat Victoria in the boiler room, and with the last of the demons defeated, they flee the Hagstone for the final time. Julie’s apparition lingers, watching with a cold, calculating gaze as she contemplates her next victim, leaving the fate of those involved—and the building itself—shrouded in a chilling, unresolved silence.

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Douglas takes the caretaker job at The Hagstone

Burned-out investigative reporter Douglas Elmore accepts a temporary caretaker position at the crumbling Hagstone. The building seems to breathe around him, and that first night the ghost of Julie Elizabeth Elmore materializes, shattering his fragile grip on reality. The encounter pulls him into Hagstone’s strange, unsettling secrets.

Night (first night) The Hagstone

Mr. Thompson demands Karna's removal; Douglas offers shelter

Early the next day, Mr. Thompson corners Douglas with a blunt demand to remove Karna and her hairless cat Victoria from the basement. Moved by Karna’s fragile dignity, Douglas offers her a small apartment near the laundry, hoping to shelter her from Hagstone’s strange dynamics. His act draws him deeper into the building’s web of secrets.

Next day morning Hagstone basement

Douglas seeks guidance from Fr. Carl Becker

Douglas visits his priest brother-in-law, Fr. Carl Becker, to seek guidance about Julie’s visits and Hagstone’s unease. He recounts the spectral happenings and the growing dread in the building. When he returns, he learns an innocent tenant has been murdered, intensifying the pull of Karna’s mystery.

Daytime Fr. Carl Becker's home

A murder disrupts the Hagstone

That night, a Hagstone tenant is brutally murdered, shattering Douglas’s fragile routine. Suspicion begins to turn toward Karna as tenants whisper and watchful glances sharpen. The building’s menace feels increasingly personal.

That night The Hagstone

Karna asks for repair; Douglas helps

Karna asks Douglas to repair something in her apartment, foreshadowing the intimate entanglements to come. He agrees, drawing closer to Karna and easing a sense of trust that the Hagstone feeds on. This simple act locks him deeper into the secrets surrounding the building.

Next day Karna's apartment (Hagstone)

Douglas shadows Karna; encounters a pale man

That night, Douglas shadows Karna through the city’s labyrinthine streets and witnesses a disturbing encounter with a pale, sinister man in a deserted alley. The scene unsettles him and raises questions about Karna’s true nature. Yet he remains drawn to her magnetic presence.

Night City streets / deserted alley

Mrs. Brennan suspects Karna; tensions rise

Back at Hagstone, tensions mount as Mrs. Brennan’s suspicions about Karna surface. An accusatory mood spreads among tenants while Douglas tries to shield himself from the gossip. The atmosphere thickens with paranoia and fear.

Next day The Hagstone

Mrs. Brennan's corpse; Detective Willis interviews

The next day, Douglas discovers Mrs. Brennan’s blood-streaked corpse in the rear stairwell. Detective Willis questions him with blunt certainty, making it clear that Douglas is the prime suspect. Willis hints at digging up Julie’s grave and reopening the case, pulling Douglas further into danger.

Next day Rear stairwell, Hagstone

Douglas accuses Karna; Karna drugs him; ritual begins

Douglas confronts Karna, accusing her of the killings, but she overpowers him with her daunting presence. She slips a drug into his drink and carries him away to a bizarre satanic sex ritual that culminates in a human sacrifice.

Night Karna's apartment

Douglas awakens at Barbara Halloway's; escape plan

Douglas wakes in Barbara Halloway’s apartment, where she urges him to abandon the Hagstone for good. He refuses, then breaks down Karna’s apartment door to find it empty and abandoned. Barbara ferries him to his brother-in-law Carl, and they grow convinced that demonic forces are using the police to exhume Julie’s body.

Morning after Barbara Halloway's apartment

Cemetery trip; Julie's grave discovery; Willis murdered

The trio travels to the cemetery and finds Detective Willis murdered at Julie’s grave. The stakes feel impossibly high as they confront the possibility that Julie’s body holds a dark, supernatural purpose. They brace for a confrontation with Hagstone’s powers.

Evening Cemetery

Confrontation with Karna and the uncovering of Julie's corpse

Back at The Hagstone, Douglas, Barbara, and Carl confront the fully demonized Karna and Mr. Thompson. Douglas discovers Julie’s corpse buried in the sub-basement, and the body re-animates to overpower him and escape. Carl is killed in the chaos.

Midnight Hagstone sub-basement

Showdown with Victoria; final escape

They challenge Karna’s monstrous cat Victoria in the boiler room, fighting the last of the demonic forces. With the victory secured, the trio flees The Hagstone for the final time. Julie’s apparition lingers, watching with cold calculation as she contemplates her next victim.

After battle (late night) Boiler room, Hagstone

Aftermath: unresolved doom

Outside, the survivors escape The Hagstone, but Julie’s lingering presence makes clear that the horror may not be finished. The ending leaves the fate of the building and its inhabitants shrouded in chilling, unresolved silence. The haunting persists, hinting at new victims yet to come.

Post-escape Outside Hagstone

The Hagstone Demon Characters

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Douglas Elmore (Mark Borchardt)

A burned-out investigative reporter who never fully recovered from his wife's suicide. He accepts a caretaker job at The Hagstone and becomes magnetically drawn to Karna, while his skepticism about the supernatural clashes with mounting fear. His determination to clear his name leads him into increasingly dangerous encounters and moral compromises.

💔 Grief 🕵️‍♂️ Determination ⚖️ Morality

Fr. Carl Becker (Sasha Andreev)

Douglas's priest brother-in-law who seeks to ground the events in faith and rational concern. He warns about Julie's visits and the Hagstone's dark influence, and helps organize a plan to stop the looming danger. He dies during the climactic confrontation with the demonic forces.

🕊️ Faith 🛡️ Courage

Barbara Halloway (Cyndi Kurtz)

A sympathetic tenant who becomes a protective ally for Douglas. She helps navigate the mounting crisis, accompanies Douglas on the quest to uncover the truth, and ultimately supports him as the supernatural threat unfolds.

🤝 Support 🏠 Shelter

Julie Elizabeth Elmore (Gizelle Erickson)

The ghost of Douglas's late wife whose presence unsettles him and accelerates the book's haunting. Julie's specter intensifies the building's mystery and foreshadows the monstrous acts that unfold. Her lifelike return hints at a larger, malevolent design at work within The Hagstone.

👻 Ghost 🕯️ Haunting

Karna / Mary Anne Riley (Nadine Gross)

An enigmatic tenant whose fragile dignity draws Douglas toward helping her. She becomes a focal point of suspicion and temptation, and her encounter with Douglas escalates into a dangerous, supernatural entanglement. By the story’s climax, she embodies the demonic forces at play as a succubus.

💋 Seduction 🧿 Occult

Mrs. Riley (Lung Leg)

A long-standing Hagstone tenant whose wary observations mirror the building’s unsettling atmosphere. She contributes to the sense of paranoia as Karna’s presence disrupts the fragile social order and raises questions about trust and safety within the complex.

👵 Neighbor 🕵️ Suspicion

The Hagstone Demon Settings

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Time period

The events unfold in a contemporary urban setting, within a decaying apartment complex where late-night encounters, investigations, and spectral visitations destabilize the protagonist's grip on reality. The atmosphere blends modern city life with an ancient, occult undertone, creating a pressure cooker for fear. The narrative's pace shifts between quiet routine and chaotic, ritualized events.

Location

The Hagstone apartment complex, Cemetery

The Hagstone sits as a decaying urban residence where the walls seem to breathe and secrets linger in its basement and sub-basement. The building's corridors host a web of secrets, murders, and supernatural disturbances that pull tenants into a shared fate. Key locations include the dim laundry room, Karna's apartment, and the cemetery where Julie's body is central to the mystery.

🏚️ Crumbling building 🌫️ Haunting atmosphere

The Hagstone Demon Themes

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Occult Power

A central thread is the intrusion of occult forces into a mundane building. Demonic entities manipulate people and spaces, turning private rooms into sites of revelation and danger. The ritualized confrontations reveal how power, sexuality, and fear can be weaponized by unseen forces. The Hagstone itself serves as a conduit for these forces to assert control over the living.

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Trauma

Douglas's grief over his wife's suicide haunts his decisions and skews his judgment. The haunting intensifies his sense of isolation and pushes him toward risky acts of kindness that draw him deeper into danger. The story links personal loss to a vulnerability that invites supernatural exploitation. Trust is tested as the past bleeds into the present through spectral and mortal violence.

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Investigation

Investigation and suspicion drive the plot as Douglas, Barbara, and Carl seek to understand the strange murders and the nature of the Hagstone. The police and investigators become entangled with the supernatural, blurring lines between truth and manipulation. Paranoia grows as evidence points toward familiar faces, forcing characters to confront hard moral choices. The pursuit of answers exposes the fragility of reality under demonic influence.

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In the shadowed corridors of a crumbling brownstone called the Hagstone, the city’s muted clamor drifts through cracked windows and warped hallways. The building itself feels like a character—its aging brickwork and whispered drafts hint at histories that never quite rest. Beneath the ordinary bustle of tenants, an uneasy atmosphere lingers, where the line between the mundane and the uncanny blurs with each passing night.

_ Douglas Elmore_ arrives as the building’s temporary caretaker, a former investigative reporter whose life has been eclipsed by grief and a steady reliance on alcohol. Haunted by fleeting, vivid visions of his late wife, _ Julie_, his days are a tightrope between routine maintenance and the compulsive need to make sense of the lingering specters that now visit him. The weight of his past and the stark isolation of the Hagstone’s dim rooms push him toward a fragile, obsessive routine that teeters on the edge of reality.

Among the building’s eclectic occupants, a solitary figure known as _ Karna_ makes her home in the basement, a homeless prostitute whose presence is both unsettling and oddly magnetic. She glides between day’s anonymity and night’s restless wanderings, carrying an air of mystique that draws Douglas’s curiosity—and his unease—into a tangled dance of attraction and suspicion. Their interactions, charged with a blend of yearning and dread, become a focal point for the building’s deeper, unseen currents.

The film settles into a tense, noir‑inflected mood, where every creak and flicker of light suggests something beyond the ordinary. As Douglas navigates his own haunted memories, the Hagstone itself seems to pulse with a latent, vengeful energy, inviting both characters and viewers to wonder what darkness truly resides within its walls.