Number 3 - Home Alone
Home Alone, which was released in 1990 and has since become an It’s a Wonderful Life-caliber Christmas classic, is on the whole a heartwarming object lesson about the sanctity of the home, the value of family, and the power of forgiveness. (That scene at the end! When the old man hugs his granddaughter in the snow!Hmph!)
But here is the other thing—the awkward thing—about Home Alone: It is weirdly violent. Actually pretty sadistically violent. And the agent of all the mayhem is an adorable 8-year-old named Kevin McCallister. Who, yes, may have been forced, by wacky circumstance, to defend his house against two bumbling thieves—but who defends that house, again and again, in pretty much the cruelest, grossest ways possible. That foot, impaled. That scalp, burned. That face, tarantula-ed.
Let this Doctor explain...
Yet this is what makes it a glorious Christmas caper and why it makes our Top 5!
