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2015 seems to be the year of reboots and reunions, and Home Alone is no exception. Unfortunately, the 2015 version of Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) is less of an innovative scamp and more of severely emotionally scarred man.
McCallister makes his return to our lives in the first episode of the new comedy web series :DRYVRS. In the clip, McCallister picks up a passenger (:DRYVRS creator Jack Dishel) using an Uber-like app. After ignoring a call from his mom, the passenger remarks, “That’s ice cold dude,” and McCallister goes off. Turns out abandoning your kid at Christmas wasn’t the most emotionally fulfilling decision. Gems from the short include “But they forget me, the cutest fucking eight-year-old in the universe,” McCallister’s constantly present cigarette, and how much Culkin resembles a Steve Buscemi character.
It’s fun to exist in a land where abandoning your eight-year-old son for a week at Christmas doesn’t cause lasting emotional damage, but for McCallister, that world doesn’t exists. As hilariously disturbing as the short it, it makes sense. After all, a kid who can construct elaborate traps that would make Jigsaw proud is bound to be a bit psychologically scrambled.
No matter McCallister’s therapist says, Home Alone will still continue to be a staple of our Christmas movie collection. Watch the short below, and be sure to vote for Home Alone in Decider’s Ultimate Holiday Bracket: The Frosty Four.
