However, the dark reality is that if those characters had faced Kevin’s booby traps – deployed to keep the robbers out – in real life, they would have likely died.
The climactic Home Alone showdown between eight-year-old kid Kevin McCallister and the pair of robbers attempting to burgle his house are some of the funniest scenes ever committed to film.
So suggests a brand new video from Jake Roper who sifted through each of Kevin’s traps to discern how Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern) would have fared in real life.
The fact that they’re taken away in a police car is perhaps the most unrealistic outcome in cinema history – but considering its a stone-cold classic, we’ll forgive it.