It may be the only movie we remember Macaulay Culkin for but he's back, 25 years later, and it looks like it wasn't all fun and games for Kevin McCallister, the cute kid who was left "Home Alone" for Christmas.
Child star, Culkin, reprises his role in a new YouTube series about his most famous role in ":DRYVRS" which follows the exploits of a driver of an unnamed car service (cough, Uber, cough, cough) and his interactions with his passengers.
The first episode, entitled "Just Me In The House By Myself," made it clear that the rarely seen Culkin was playing an adult version of the character that made him a house hold name. But poor, crafty Kevin apparently did not survive his Christmas ordeals without some major psychological trauma.
Culkin/McCallister recounts to his driver (who was supposed to be his passenger) how his family forgot about him on Christmas, not once, but twice! Left to fend for himself, first in their swanky suburban Chicago Home, and next time in no less than New York City, McCallister had to survive against two relentless burglars who would stop at nothing to get into his home and seek their revenge on him.
"I still have nightmares about it, dude," McCallister tells his driver.
And come to think of it, who wouldn't? After all, McCallister had to come up with some pretty McGuyver-esque traps to outsmart his would-be attackers and in the process ended up shooting someone in the face with a BB-gun, almost gave a pizza guy a heart attack, and blow-torched someone else's head. Not the kind of stuff an 8-year-old should have to go through.
The all grown up McCallister reveals just how deeply the trauma of his childhood runs when his ride takes a turn for the worst and nearly gets car-jacked. But, honing in on his skills of ingenuity, uses items in the car to overpower the car jacker and brought him straight into a basement where he enumerated all the not so kid-friendly, blood curdling things he was going to do to him.
Just watch the episode for yourself. And that trademark, hands on his cheeks and scream? Yep, it's in there too.
