The ViolentNight cast and crew chatted with us about paying brutal homage to HomeAlone
Today sees the release of Violent Night, the latest"Bad Santa" style movie in which Stranger Things and Hellboy star David Harbour plays an action hero take on the Jolly Old Elf, who squares off against a team of terrorists who have stormed the estate of a wealthy family on Christmas Eve.
There are two ways to confront those comparisons: lean in, or lean away from Home Alone. Many filmmakers would likely lean away from it, since the elaborate traps and Rube Goldberg devices were so expertly executed by filmmaker John Hughes and his team that it's a high bar to clear. Violent Night goes the other way.
"That Home Alone sequence is a real crowd pleaser," Harbour told us."I mean, it plays so well. I think part of it too is that she's so charismatic, and so charming and wide-eyed and sweet, that her trying to recreate that movie in a crazy violent way is quite surprising and hilarious. Tommy's great with all that stuff.
0comments"The Home Alone scene was it was always in the script, but one of the first things I said when I read the script was that this scene could be so much bigger," Wirkola explained."It should be the showstopper in the movie, because I -- like so many other people, and I'm sure that's the reason why the writers came up with it -- always wondered what would happen if Home Alone really took place. Those traps would be lethal.
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