Director Mark L. Lester (1946)

As college students, Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson participated in an experiment in whuch they were given a dose of a low-grade hallucinogen called LOT-6. While the other participants suffered terrible side effects, the experiment gave Vicky and Andy telepathic abilities; Vicky can read minds and Andy can control others to do and believe what he wants, though the effort sometimes gives him nosebleeds, limiting this otherwise very strong power. Now married, they have an eight-year-old daughter named Charlene “Charlie” McGee, who has pyrokinetic abilities (the power to control heat and fire) and can also see the near future. Andy comes home from work one day to find Vicky ...