It's Christmastime, and we all know what that means. Television stations, as they are wont to do, will flood their broadcasts with the cannon of Christmas-related films we've come to know and love. No matter how many times we've seen Frosty The Snowman, the movie will still have the same visceral nostalgic power as always. This, of course, is true of the Christmas classic Home Alone starring the ever-charming child star Macaulay Culkin. Now, 25 years after the film's release, Culkin has decided to reprise his role as Kevin McCallister on an episode of the web series DRYVRS.
While many fans will welcome the reprisal, some have been taken aback by the appearance of the former child charmer. In the film, Culkin portrays a grown-up McCallister who is extremely resentful of his childhood. As fans will remember, Culkin was left alone by his family on two separate Christmas occasions. McCallister is now a temporary on-demand driver (in the vein of Uber), and accosts his customer over his troubled childhood.
"It's f*cking Christmas, and your whole family goes on vacation and they forget their eight-year-old f*cking son," he says to an alarmed passenger.
He continues, "I still have nightmares about this bald weirdo dude chasing me around, talking like Yosemite Sam. They remembered my bastard of a brother but they forget me, the cutest fu*king eight-year-old in the universe."
The video is dark, but only gets darker, as the car (now being driven by the passenger) is held at gunpoint. To this, Culkin responds, "You picked the wrong car my friend." He then proceeds to use his Home Alone skills to disarm the carjacker. However, it's not over there. The carjacker, tied up, is under the control of Culkin. It is then implied that Culkin tortures the carjacker, who he likens to the home invaders from the first film, as the film plays "Jingle Bells."
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