A bonus episode! A viewing guide to the Home Alone franchise and it’s many copycat mockbusters and parodies.

Links after the jump. (There are some spoilers in the podcast episode)



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The Run Down

This episode reviews every film in the Home Alone franchise and includes knock-offs and parodies. Here’s the full list under discussion along with a personal rating.

• Home Alone (1990) ★★★★★


• Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) ★★★★


• Home Alone 3 (1997) ★★


• Home Alone: Taking Back the House (2002) ★★


• Home Alone: The Holiday Heist (20122) ★★★

and

• Home Alone Parody: Kevin Defends the Apartment (2015) via YouTube ★★★


• :DRYVRS Ep. 1 “Just Me In The House By Myself” (2015) via YouTube  ★★★★


• Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors (2008) ★★★


• Alone for Christmas aka Bone Alone (2013) ★★★★


• Skyfall (2012) N/A


• Home Alone: The Return of the Wet Bandits (X-Rated 2012) N/A


• Ho’ Alone (X-Rated 2014) N/A

 

Video

***BONUS***

This video was discovered shortly after this podcast episode’s release. Too good not to include. Mashes up Home Alone with Die Hard, Gremlins, and others. It’s incredible. (Support amdsfilms via Paypal:https://www.paypal.me/amdsfilms)

 

 

Visuals

Episode artwork is adapted from the original poster artwork for Skyfall and Home Alone.

The maps:

<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_193" style="width: 840px;"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Home Alone – “Battle Plan”</figcaption></figure>

 

<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_194" style="width: 840px;"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Home Alone 2 – “Operation Ho Ho Ho”</figcaption></figure>

 

<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_192" style="width: 840px;"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Home Alone 3 – “Jimmy Allcots House”??</figcaption></figure>

 

And here’s some of the artwork from the parodies…

<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_184" style="width: 425px;"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Bone Alone DVD artwork</figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_185" style="width: 420px;"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Harri Puttar artwork</figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_183" style="width: 421px;"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Ho’ Alone found artwork</figcaption></figure>

 

Credits

Theme music by Bradley Davis (Fresh Snow) with sound effects by robinhood76 from freesound.org.

Episode sources can be found here.