Hollywood studios have often lassoed the worst incarnations of children — as demons, delinquents, or the disturbed. This weekend, Lincoln Center highlights a few of cinema's most misunderstood younguns for its playful, "thanks, Satan" series, Problem Child. Poor-parent staples, such as The Omen (1976) or Wolf Rilla's Village of the Damned (1960), are programmed alongside lesser-seen shocks, like the orphan-turned-Nazi thriller, Tomorrow, the World! (1944), and The Children's Hour (1961), which centers around a student's accusation that her teachers (Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine) are — lord help them — lovers. The 11-film capstone, though, is an original 1973 print of William Friedkin's bejesus-eliciting classic The Exorcist.
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