With spooky season behind us, it’s about time to crack out the obnoxious jumpers, begin the never ending deliberation of what to buy Dad (novelty T-Shirt?! Yet another swiss army knife?! IDK) and eat nothing but pigs in blankets and Quality Street until 2019. That’s right- Christmas is coming, whether we like it or not.
The Christmas adverts are staring to roll out, with some already causing controversy. Every year they divide option: touching or trite? Good or greedy? Well if you’re one of the cynics and don’t fancy settling in with a box of tissues to see what John Lewis have pulled out of the bag this year, why not crack out a Christmas classic guaranteed to raise more of a smile?
‘Home Alone’: the iconic biopic of a young Jigsaw- the tale of one boy building a saw-like house of horrors in a chilling portrait of young delinquency. What could be more festive?!
“Never work with animals or children” – W. C Fields
So the famous saying goes, and so movies like this that are built around a child character are second only in daringness to films built around live animals (see: ‘Homeward Bound’).
56. Macaulay Culkin was only ten years old when they filmed ‘Home Alone’
When I was ten years old, the most work I did was the occasionally bit of washing up for pocket money.
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But Culkin’s career started very early, and by ten he had a big time job in a big blockbuster.
