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It was set in Chicago but filmed in South Africa. In a strange alternate reality, the 9-year-old Kevin saw his parents getting divorced which leads to him having to protect his stepmother's house from Marv, not played by Daniel Stern, and his girlfriend. While the third Home Alone film used a different lead character, Home Alone 4 strangely reverted back to using Kevin. Instead, he ended up playing a similarly dim-witted character called Max. The 1995 comedy Bushwhacked was originally intended to be a Home Alone spin-off which followed the character of Marv as he gives up a life of crime only to be framed while working at his new job. Instead, it went to his Goodfellas co-star Joe Pesci. Robert De Niro was originally offered the role of Harry but he turned it down. The proof? Well, there's a whole essay you can read here, including apparent visual links between Kevin's furnace and the bear trap used on the face of a victim in the first Saw film. Speaking of insane theories, a recent one suggests that Kevin grew up to be Jigsaw, the depraved torturer from the Saw franchise. There's a rather unhinged conspiracy theory that alleges that Elvis was alive and well enough to be an extra in the film. The iron to the face could lead to disfigurement, the burning doorknob to scar tissue and limited use of the hand and the blowtorched scalp to dying skull bone which would require a transplant.

Let's just say that the diagnosis was not great. In 2012, The Week sat a doctor down to watch the film and then remark on exactly how bad the many injuries would be and therefore how much pain the two intruders could actually sustain. The incredibly bizarre trailer is here.Īnother one of Kevin's on-screen siblings Megan, played by Hillary Wolf, went onto become the Judo Junior World Champion in 1994 and then represented the US in both the 19 Olympics.

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In 2008, Devin Ratray, the actor who played Buzz, starred in an odd movie called Courting Condi, where a British filmmaker followed him as he tried to win the heart of Condoleezza Rice.

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He broke the skin and everything! I'm a little nine-year-old boy and he's going around biting (my finger).

'And during rehearsal he actually bit me. 'In one of the scenes, they hang me up on the closet door or something and he says, 'I'm gonna bite each one of your fingers off, one at a time,'' Culkin recalls. The story about forgetting his son at a funeral home was improvised.ĭuring a scene when Joe Pesci threatens Macaulay Culkin, he accidentally bit one of his fingers, which led to a scar.

He'd previously worked with John Hughes on Uncle Buck, the film that nabbed Macaulay Culkin the part in Home Alone. John Candy starred in the film for zero payment and he filmed his entire role in just one, admittedly long, day.

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After the release of Home Alone, a French filmmaker called Rene Manzor alleged that it was a copy of 3615 Code Pere Noel, a 1989 thriller about a boy left alone on Christmas Eve who defends his home from an intruder with toys and home appliances. Your film isn't really a success without a lawsuit claiming that it's all been shamelessly stolen from another film. Michael Keaton, Bryan Cranston and even Christopher Reeve were considered for the role of the dad, Peter McAllister, which is played brilliantly by John Heard.

Things you may not know about Home Alone 2ĭanny DeVito was considered for the role of Harry, which eventually went to Joe Pesci.

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Macaulay Culkin's magnum opus is so embedded in our celebration of Christmas that we'd feel bereft if we didn't watch it at least twice before the 25th.īut before you dust off the VHS yet again, here ar 15 things you might not have known about the hit comedy, which is set to be remade next year by Disney! Despite a plot that relies on an increasingly sickening display of violence committed by an 8-year-old boy, nothing makes us feel more festive than rewatching Home Alone.

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