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Alex has a trap ready in the form of a spring-loaded punching glove. For a long time, these tricks are enough to discourage Marv and Harry from hitting the house. For example, you can install a door stop alarm that will screech if a burglar breaks your door open or motion-activated lights that strobe when an intruder is near.
Cars, especially the roofs, are designed to be sturdy so to cause it to collapse would also result in Harry breaking his ribs, spine, and even his skull in one go. Marv is especially lucky since he had a much longer flight of stairs whereas Harry only had to contend with a few. If Marv had rolled in any way, it would have been the end of the night for him unless paramedics took him to the hospital fast enough.
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Alice is tricked into landing in a straightaway of mud on the side of the house. Fine enough, but he then falls onto a string that forces a heavy plant pot to collide with her head. Alice manages to bypass the backside porch stairs in a really unnecessary acrobatics display.
In the movie, it just results in a humorous squeal from Harry, but in reality, it would be a totally different story. With the amount of strength Marv put into his swing, Harry is easily looking at fractured ribs and collapsed lungs. If Marv had aimed just a little to the side, the crowbar could have also easily stopped or ruptured Harry's heart.
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However, Kevin had poured tar all over the stairs, causing him to lose his shoes and socks, then step on a nail barefoot. That means Marv is barefoot for the rest of the movie, which opens him up to many more accidents. It could also be potentially deadly for Marv, as this nail could have rust on it, causing tetanus. A better choice to keep your family safe would be a big, loud dog. Studies suggest that homes with dogs experience property crime less frequently than those without dogs.
Similar to the Alice trap, this trap is the most disappointingly flat because it starts off so well. Thinking he's found Alex, Burton pulls on a dummy and starts up a lawnmower in the attic of the garage. The lawnmower comes rolling and falls right on him as he screams in agony off-screen.
Zipline Fall
It's the swing into the bricks that probably left the bigger bruises, and maybe even a cracked rib or two. The wire is firm enough and placed high enough that, when Harry runs into it, it flips him head over heels, sending him sprawling across the floor. Marv is lucky enough to miss it, but because Harry fell, he only manages to grab Kevin's pant leg.
It torches the top of his head; he runs out and extinguishes his burning bonce in the snow. It turns out that more than a few have wondered exactly that. Home Alone’s realism has become an unlikely obsession of the internet. In the pantheon of children’s classics, this places it in a category of one. Arctic blast is set to hit UK again with heavy snow, ice and freezing temperatures after Christmas as... Researchers determined the most significant energy usage comes from the lights - both indoors and outside - at the six-bedroom, six bath Chicago home.
Paint can carnage
Going back to the most recent entry in the franchise, Home Sweet Home Alone also shows off a creative mod that Max makes towards a toy gun. He somehow transforms it into a launcher that shoots out billiard balls, and it gets a lot of use throughout the film. It is Max's primary defense against the home intruders, and it certainly packs a punch. By the time the film is winding down from the trap springing hi-jinks, he has the intruders begging to not shoot them because it is just that powerful. Harry dodges like a pro and Marv goes flying back to the foyer.
Kevin uses a lot of electricity in his various schemes, from heating up the doorknob with an electric barbeque lighter to using a record player and toy train track to mimic a party. Alex has his pet mouse, Doris, hiding in Burton's tattered pants. Calling back to the spider trap from the first Home Alone, Alice screams and tells Burton not to move. In a scene rivaling James Bond's torture from Casino Royale, Alice swings a hockey club right into Burton's groin.
As soon as the already battle-worn burglars start shimmying down, Kevin ignites the kerosene-soaked rope, causing the duo to let go and plummet to the concrete which should have killed them on impact. There is no other way around it, Harry and Marv should be 100% dead with this trap. Realism is already out the window when the tool chest falls down the stairs perfectly upright the entire time. Then it rams both Harry and Marv into a wall, crushing them. For the sake of analysis, if this miracle had happened and the tool chest generated that much force, the impact would have done so much more than break their noses.
What he does is remove and transfer the handles of a pool over to the right of where the pool actually is, thus giving the illusion that the pool is farther to the right of the backyard. Next, Alex places the trampoline over the pool cover, which has been blanketed in thick snow. Part of what makes this trap memorable is the fact that Alex Pruitt (Alex D. Linz) has to carefully trigger this trap prematurely to avoid harming his mother. The audience then gets to see how Alex has set the trap up, and when it comes time for it to work against the home intruder, it is preceded by the triggering of a doll to make a crying child noise. This noise lures Mr. Beaupre to open the door, expecting to find a scared child and instead getting a boxing glove launched right into his body.
Harry's tumble is a bit faster, but no less intense, as he falls onto his back and goes into a roll that looks like it's hell on his neck. Let's just call it a tie and say that ice and concrete are never a fun combination. Melody MacReady is a writer and transwoman (she/her), passionate about all things pop culture-related.
Marv stumbles barefoot through an open window by Kevin’s Christmas tree, and he steps on glass ornaments. Painful, sure, but it’s not likely to send one into a coma. But for all the bumps and bruises, where Home Alone really falls down is in pizza delivery. In one famous scene, Kevin uses recordings of the old gangster movie Angels With Dirty Faces to scare off the pizza delivery man . Acaster and Khan recreate the stunt, using recordings of Acaster talking like a 1930s “tough guy”. Let’s start with the makeshift flamethrower Kevin improvises to singe Harry as he opens a door.
The burning doorknob from the first Home Alone movie was a classic trap that left a lasting mark not just on the hand of Harry , but in the minds of viewers as well. Marv finally seems to catch a break upon entering the basement. Poor Marv pulls a string, thinking it is a light, and brings a hot clothing iron down a laundry chute. Sadly, Kevin takes a pair of garden shears and cleaves the rope in two.
Burton screams like an opera singer as Alex and Doris make a getaway. Sure, the high-pitched scream is a little silly, but it's still a well-timed and executed trap. Of course, Burton makes it even better when he groans afterward, "you smacked my winky." It's so PG and family-friendly, yet so perfectly delivered at the same time. There are all sorts of crazy traps in the Home Alone story. This might not be a trap, per se, but it is a clever way for Kevin to get out of some of these burglar problems.
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