Demonstone

A number of worthwhile plot elements are thrown haphazardly at the screen in DEMONSTONE, and few of them stick. At the center is the traditional horror-movie curse, cast 500 years before the main action of the story begins and depicted in flashback. A Filipino warlord played by Joonee Gamboa oversees the massacre of a cult headed by Chinese mystic Han Chin (Jose Mari Avellana), who swears with his dying breath that the warlord's clan will be wiped out. Flash forward to the present. Gamboa now portrays Senantor Belfardo, a powerful Filipino gangster-politician whose high-placed relatives are being ritualistically murdered, their foreheads branded with the demonstone...