Harry climbs up a few wooden pallets and makes a leap onto a ladder to get into Kevin’s uncle’s house in New York. One has to admire Kevin’s magical ability to predict that he’d need a third item to toss at the crooks. Pipe DreamsĪfter dodging two paint cans in a reference to the original film, Harry and Marv get smacked by a large pipe attached to a rope. The mark on his head lasts the whole movie. Marv pulls on a light switch, causing an iron to fall through a laundry chute onto his head. Landing on your tailbone is no fun, trust me. Anyone who’s seen an icy winter has suffered this trap in real life at least once. Icy Stairsīoth Harry and Marv slip on ice on the stairs when trying to break into the McCallister house. There’s a callback to this gag in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, but this is the classic, so much so that the recent five-film box set comes in paint-can packaging. Paint Can to the HeadĪ pair of paint cans attached to ropes smack Harry and Marv in the head as they ascend the stairs of the McCallister abode. I’m not asking for anyone to do this to me, but I’d mind it less than other traps. He gets staples in the butt, crotch, and nose. Marv yanks and yanks on a doorknob, setting off the trigger on a staple gun. But Kevin’s latent sadism only gets worse as this list continues. This triggers a Craftsman Tool Chest to fall down a flight of stairs and pin them against the wall. The Sticky Bandits pull on a doorknob hooked to a rope. Painful, sure, but it’s not likely to send one into a coma. Marv stumbles barefoot through an open window by Kevin’s Christmas tree, and he steps on glass ornaments. The Home Alone series is no stranger to pratfalls involving the baddies falling onto their backs, but this one is on a wooden floor - downright comfy compared to what we see further down the list. Troublesome Toy CarsĪfter reuniting, Harry and Marv proceed to run towards the stairs and trip over toy cars. He looks like a chicken, but nothing is hurt but his pride. Once Harry removes it, a fan blows a metric shitload of feathers onto his face. Harry follows Kevin through an open door. It does, however, cause him to scream like a little girl. Kevin responds by grabbing a spider and tossing it onto Marv’s face. Load up your BB Gun and slather on your aftershave: it’s time to sink into the top 26 torturous Home Alone traps! 26. I’m going to rank the traps from the first two Home Alone flicks from least to most painful. Both Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost In New York starred Macaulay Culkin as the troublesome tot Kevin McCallister, defended is respective homes from the Wet Bandits. It was directed by Chris Columbus of Rent fame, and the rest is history. After directed and writing a series of acclaimed teenage drama-comedies, John Hughes shat out the script for Home Alone in less than a week.
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