I saw it just a couple of years ago (the censored American version) of the US SciFi Channel, so my memory's not as fuzzy, but you've pretty much got it right. John Hurt's character turns out to actually be an illusionary guise taken by Asmodeus so that he can "walk among men" and rebuild his cult and his strength. He was imprisoned before the Roman invasion by the druids, who sealed him in the underground room with the gold seal (the room was accessed from a secret panel in a megalithic stone circle and was beneath the basement of the Cyon mansion). The "real version" of John Hurt's character was killed when he broke the seal and Asmodeus crushed him with the door; Sebastian and Ham find his skeleton behind the open door, along with the broken seal. Sebastian's injury was done to him by a disembodied Asmodeus in the South Pacific; apparently Sebastian was a follower at one time, unaware that the demon was loose on the earth. Apparently Asmodeus was strong enough to exert influence over men outside of his prison before he broke free, and the rebuilding of his cult makes him even more powerful. The plot of Spectre, therefore, is a grudge match between the two. Sebastian and Ham forge a bullet from the broken seal and use it to kill Asmodeus' physical form, forcing him back to hell. With the demon defeated, his mutated subhuman disciples go insane and kill themselves or flee. The pentagram was from earlier in the film; Sebastian and Ham stumble on a Scotland Yard investigation conducted by an old colleague involving the disappearance of an occultist. The occultist was apparently investigating the cult, and the pentagram was on the floor of his study; it apparently didn't protect him from Asmodeus' wrath.
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