Macaulay Culkin Examines The Dark Repercussions Of ‘Home Alone’ In New Web Series

Everyone remembers Kevin McCallister, the cute, resourceful star of Home Alone, who manages to thwart two hardened criminals who plan to rob his neighborhood blind. It’s a potentially frightening experience for any 8-year-old but Kevin was wiser than his years and being forgotten by his family and having to fend for himself over Christmas didn’t seem to bother him too much.

Or did it?

In a new web series called “:DRYVRS,” created by comedian and former Moldy Peaches guitarist, Jack Dishel, we’re getting a new perspective on the classic movie’s plot. Dishel has enlisted the talents of Macaulay Culkin himself to reimagine Kevin’s experience as highly traumatic and one that has repercussions into his adult life.

“Everything is not okay,” Culkin tells a bemused Dishel as he hops into his car Uber-style, only for Culkin to remember that he can’t actually drive.

“It’s Christmas time and your whole family goes on vacation and they forget you,” Culkin recalls. “I had to fend off my house from two psychopath home invaders. I was just a kid. I mean, I still have nightmares about this bald wierdo dude chasing me around.”

In what might also be a sly dig at his brief marriage to Rachel Miner, who Culkin married at 18, he advises Dishel, “Never marry your childhood sweetheart.”

The comedy webisode doesn’t paint the Home Alone experience as entirely negative, however, and when an assailant attempts to carjack the guys, Culkin fends him off with the same quick-thinking that helped Kevin through his lonely Christmas.