Punish the Sinners

Italy, 1252Inquisition. Accusation. Fear. Torture. The guilty and the innocent dying for sins real and imagined, in the flames of the burning stakeNeilsville, 1978Peter Balsam has come to this sleepy desert town to teach its youth, and finds a mystery of mounting horror.Something is happening to the young girls of St. Francis Xavier High Schoolsomething evil.In bloodlet and terror a suicide contagion has swept the townwhile a dark order of its holy men enacts a secret medieval ritual. Is hysteria manipulating these innocent children into violent self-destruction? Or has a supernatural force, a thirteenth-century madness, returned toPunish the Sinners?