What's this? A festival of "evil children" films during the Christmas holidays? Heck, yeah. Haven't you had your fill yet of Yuletide sugar and togetherness? We think it's time for the antidote and if this doesn't perk you up, nothing will. First, we've got the original "evil child" - Rhoda, the blonde, pigtailed murderess of The Bad Seed (1956) starring eleven-year-old Patty McCormack. It's followed by Ann Blyth as the ungrateful and scheming daughter of Mildred Pierce (1945), a classic film noir with an Oscar-winning performance by Joan Crawford as a selfless restaurant owner who sacrifices everything for her bratty daughter. Other highlights include The Children's Hour (1961), directed by William Wyler, in which a spoiled student ruins the lives of two teachers (Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine) with an accusation of lesbianism, and Edward, My Son (1949), starring Spencer Tracy in one of his most unsympathetic roles as an unscrupulous father who raises a son with no sense of morality. To conclude our purge of the holiday season, we present Elizabeth Taylor as a good girl-gone-bad in The Girl Who Had Everything (1953). Her father (William Powell) is a criminal lawyer and - we know you can see this coming - Liz falls hard for one of his no-good gangster clients (Fernando Lamas). Enjoy! By Jeff Stafford