The Hagstone Demon (2011) – Jon Springer.

Hard-luck Ex-Journalist, active boozer Douglas Elmore (Mark Borchardt) works as a caretaker in the derelict, soon to be demolished Hagstone building. He experiences malevolent visions of his dead wife Julie (Gizelle Erickson), and not long thereafter, some of the remaining tenants die suspiciously, Douglas convinced that malign supernatural forces are at work! Jon Springer's engagingly quirky occult horror benefits hugely from Borchardt's sympathetic, winningly sardonic demeanour, amiably providing for an idiosyncratic, yet eminently watchable spook-seeker! The Hagstone Demon proved compelling odd, the doomy setting is eerie, and the lurid incidents of weird necromancy, and eroticized black magic bugaboo are colourfully realised. Writer/Director Springer has done an exemplary job of imbuing The Hagstone building with a bleak, and palpable strangeness, heightening the eldritch mystery that evilly envelops all within its decayed walls.

I strongly believe that The Hagstone Demon will continue to garner an increasing number of horror fans, especially those who appreciate the film's playfully off-beat approach to pulpy Satanic terror. While it's not altogether easy to explain The Hagstone Demon's singular appeal, but, for me, it frequently manifested a uniquely kooky/spooky vibration that I more than happily tuned into. There were sublime instances when the twitchier characters oozed an Eightball/Hate comic eccentricity, the dingy, diminutive comb-over freak being exquisitely Eightballian! Springer's neat-o indie spookshow was not only entertaining, it also revealed my hitherto latent supernatural talent, as I unequivocally knew, just from eyeballing the poster that I would love it, and, by Jove, I most certainly did!!!