[Agnes Heep]

There's also the classic Twilight Zone episode with 6-year old Bill Mumy who could "wish people into the cornfield" (never to be seen again) if they annoyed him. He wished a lot of people into the corn field and the entire town was terrified of him. He had no concern for others, and there was nothing that could limit his murderous actions.

I believe that would have been an adaptation of the short story. They don't make TV like that anymore!

[Kay Syrah]

They don't make TV like that anymore!

No, but if you remember( or just enjoy the ambience of the era) you might want to catch The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra. Just for fun.

[7thson]

The story is called "It's A Good Life"

It's a Good Life

Writer: Rod Serling, based on the short story "It's a Good Life" by Jerome Bixby

Director: James Sheldon

A six-year-old boy holds a town in terror with his powers to change or destroy anyone or anything at will.

CAST: Billy Mumy, Cloris Leachman, Alice Frost, Jeanne Bates, Casey Adams, John Larch, Tom Botcher, Don Keefer, Lenore Kingston.

This was one of the stories done in the movie version of Twilight Zone. Basically, what happened is that when the boy is born, the doctor was so aghast at the evil exuding from the creature that he was about to kill it. Protecting itself from the danger, the thing transmported itself and the town to another demision and kept these people there to serve him. Anything or anyone that irked him was sent to the cornfield, and in the short story they actually described what happens in the cornfield.

I know this is way off topic of the original post, but I always liked the original TZ and always felt that the stories dealt with "mutants" earlier than Marvel did.