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They don't always break skin, but they leave massive welts, and if they do break skin they can even get stuck under there. Harry and Marv each took a BB at extremely close range, which means those wounds stung for the rest of the night. Perhaps the most useful of these turns out to be Buzz's BB gun, which is the first trap the kid springs on the Wet Bandits. In the film, it's arguably the most famous trap of Home Alone 2 with Marv's screams continuing to get more and more extreme as Kevin cranks up the voltage. It even results in Marv turning into a skeleton in a cartoonish fashion that is more suitable for kids.
It's not just a random assortment of booby traps that Kevin springs on the Wet Bandits. It's all arranged in such a way as to keep them downstairs for most of the night, then lure them upstairs so he can confuse them enough to make his escape out to his treehouse in the backyard. As much as this is a classic slapstick pratfall, it is also unrealistic.
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You’ll need more than a little pile of snow to sort that out, mate. But would a real-life Harry and Marv have survived the kinds of traps Kevin set them? That’s exactly what The Unofficial Science of Home Alone – a new documentary on Sky Max – plans to find out. Gets shot in the groin by a bag of sugar and falls down several stairs. Gets three staples shot in his butt cheek, groin, and nose from a staple gun on the other side of the front door. His right hand is severely burned when he places it on the searing-hot doorknob .
The most recent movie in the Home Alone series just released in November on Disney+, and with it comes some creative re-imaginings on traps that have been seen in the past. While the concept of the trampoline trap was first utilized in Home Alone 3, the one seen in Home Sweet Home Alone gives it a bit of a curve ball. When Jeff attempts to jump onto a trampoline to catch Max , Max retaliates by pulling the trampoline onto an angle, which instead sends Jeff flying into the thick branch of a tree. This trap works well because the twist happens very quickly, catching the audience by surprise as much as Jeff. The very first trap of the movie is a priceless way to kick off the third act.
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This is one of the less dangerous or even deadly traps that Kevin plants through the movie, although a BB gun at close range can definitely cause damage, especially if it hits the wrong place. He leaves the window by the Christmas tree open just a crack, so when Marv — frustrated that going through the basement didn't work for him — happens upon it, he's sure he's found the perfect way in. Marv and his bare feet, come right down on a collection of glass Christmas ornaments and lights, shattering them into his skin in the process. They may not penetrate that deeply, but having a bunch of tiny glass shards in your foot would definitely be a problem for the rest of the night. On Marv's end, he slips right away and goes sliding down the basement stairs, hitting every hard edge on the way down and riddling his body with bruises.
Being the only entry on this list from the fourth installment of Home Alone, the sesame spinner is the movie's best attempt at utilizing the setting of a smart home. In the movie, Kevin uses the home's revolving bookcase/bar to spin Marv and Vera around and around, constantly increasing the speed with the codeword "sesame" before eventually launching them out. After dodging two paint cans in a reference to the original film, Harry and Marv get smacked by a large pipe attached to a rope. One has to admire Kevin’s magical ability to predict that he’d need a third item to toss at the crooks. Marv yanks and yanks on a doorknob, setting off the trigger on a staple gun. I’m not asking for anyone to do this to me, but I’d mind it less than other traps.
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Kevin’s first attempt to keep Marv and Harry off his parent’s property starts right at the entrance. Marv and Harry slip and fall almost immediately they start walking up the steps. When asked about his home’s security precautions, Peter replies, “Oh, well, we have automatic timers for our lights. That’s about as good as you can get these days.” Keep in mind this movie debuted in 1990.
Last, but certainly not least, Kevin escapes to a treehouse that’s connected to the rest of the home with a rope. Harry and Marv attempt to follow him, but he uses pruning shears to cut the rope, causing them to swing down into a brick wall. This is another trap that would almost certainly result in serious problems for the burglars and could even kill them.
It's shown that the TV that Kevin plays the VHS on is quite small and the audio is so powerful that it actually sounds like events happening inside the house. Sadly, the rope is soaked in kerosene, and Kevin sets it ablaze. The Sticky Bandits try to escape, can’t, let go of the burning rope, and fall all the way to the basement. A three-story fall onto concrete from a flaming rope should have paralyzed these bad guys. Harry tries to climb a ladder after Kevin, but Kevin has already cut the bottom out, causing it to collapse under Harry’s weight.
Early in the film, we see Kevin use his mother's laundry chute as a target practice stage, knocking action figures down from the kitchen into the basement with his brother's BB Gun. By the time the Wet Bandits arrive, he's put it to use by wedging an iron in the door and attaching it to a light bulb in the basement. When Marv pulls the chain, expecting to turn on the light, he instead looks up to find the iron barreling down on him.
Before you start planning how to booby trap your house a la Kevin McCallister, consider the ramifications. Most of the burglar traps Kevin sets in Home Alone cause some serious physical damage. After Kevin thwarts them with his BB gun at the kitchen door, Harry tells Marv to try the basement, while he heads to the front door of the McCallister home. It's a hard door to reach because Kevin has slicked the stairs with ice, but Harry keeps fighting.
To slow them down just a little longer while he prepares his escape, Kevin carefully places a tripwire on the stair landing. There are no doubt levels to the various traps Kevin McCallister springs over the course of "Home Alone," ranging from the almost deadly to the ones that just leave a bit of a bruise the next day. There's one trap, though, that barely registers on the pain scale at all, at least at first. This is not a guaranteed death, but there is a high chance of it depending on where Marv hits.
While it’s true that, in the history of surveillance cameras, home surveillance systems weren’t common until the mid-90s, other options have been around for longer. The McCallisters could certainly have had a hard-wired alarm system and motion sensors. Keep those vacation photos off of Facebook and Instagram until you get back. Though this scenario fromHome Alonemight seem farfetched, it’s more common than you might think. They might pretend to be a cop, a utility worker, a lost stranger looking for directions, or any number of things.
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