Home Alone was released 28 years last November, but many people learned a shocking new fact about the beloved Christmas movie. On Christmas Day, Seth Rogen dropped a truth bomb about Home Alone and that had the internet shook.
Rogen revealed that the gangster movie in Home Alone is not a real, classic gangster movie, but in fact a fake movie made specifically for Home Alone. Rogen tweeted out: “My entire childhood, I thought the old timey movie that Kevin watches in Home Alone (Angels With Filthy Souls) was actually an old movie.”
My entire childhood, I thought the old timey movie that Kevin watches in Home Alone (Angels With Filthy Souls) was actually an old movie.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) December 25, 2018
So many people had their world flipped upside down with the “new” development.
Wait what!!? https://t.co/Hp11Oy2cSv
— ?st (@questlove) December 26, 2018
SAME
— Elijah Wood (@elijahwood) December 25, 2018
Wait… It isn't?
— Frankie Muniz (@frankiemuniz) December 25, 2018
Had this same discussion last night
— Dave (@lildickytweets) December 26, 2018
It isn’t? (Dead serious)
— nick kroll (@nickkroll) December 25, 2018
That’s not a real movie???? Sheesh
— Josh Eppard (@Weerd_Science) December 26, 2018
I didn't know it until you just said this.
— Rodney Rothman (@rodneyrothman) December 25, 2018
— SHERRI HILL (@SherriHill) December 26, 2018
In Home Alone, Macaulay Culkin watches Angels With Filthy Souls and uses sound clips from the fake movie to mess with the pizza delivery man and to stop Marvin Murchins from robbing his house.
Angels With Filthy Souls was created for Home Alone as the same way Angels With Filthy Souls 2 was made specifically for Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. That’s where Kevin McAllister used the fake movie’s quotes from mobster Johnny to scare off the hotel staff.
The scenes from Angels With Filthy Souls was shot in one day. Many believe the fake movie was inspired by the very real 1938 gangster movie Angels With Dirty Faces starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart. Angels With Filthy Souls was included as a featurette in the Home Alone DVD.
Then there is this theory about Home Alone.
Remember. Kevin McCallister could have phoned the police at any time. He was a child who had accidentally been left alone. One call and he would have been safe. But it was never about safety. He was hunting those men. He wanted them to die. It was fun for him. He enjoyed it.
— Trevor Moore (@itrevormoore) December 26, 2018
Hope you had a Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals.
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