United States

In the New England town of Devonsville in 1683 three innocent young women are accused of witchcraft and suffer terrible tortures before being bunt at the stake. As the flames engulf the third victim she rises into the lightning-filled sky as a demonic apparition, cursing the town and its children's children. 300 years later in 1983, Jenny a beautiful young school teacher arrives to take up her new appointment in Devonsville. She finds the townspeople hostile, suspicious and filled with mistrust. Soon afterwards a woman is brutally murdered, a man disappears, satanic visions begin to haunt terrified villagers. The Curse has awakened and the horror is relived. In the dead of night the crazed menfolk hunt it down just as their forefathers hunted witches. But all too late do they realize that it is the curse incarnate. The agent of vengeance sent with supernatural powers to destroy the the townspeople of Devonsville in terrible retribution for the sins of their ancestors.