If you’ve ever revisited Home Alone as an adult, you’ve probably had that nagging realization that Kevin McCallister has more in common with the killer in Saw than he does with other little kids.

I mean, his traps would have totally murdered Marv and Harry, and it would have been a gruesome crime scene.

Look, the original movies are for kids, so they play impaling, electrocutions, glass breaks, and tarantulas for laughs, but these were situations primed for a parody.

Enter Ariana Grande's episode of SNL, where she plays Kevin. This sketch decided to pull back the curtain on the "real" physics of a home invasion.

Let's dive in.

SNL's Home Alone Skit 

This parody is so viscerally, uncompromisingly, and exquisitely violent that I felt like I had to share it all with you.

This one feels like a Final Destination movie, with all sorts of elaborate traps snapping and killing unwitting family members.

Amidst the chaos, I was laughing so hard I had to rewind and rewatch it to see more of the gags and even some of Grande's perfect facial expressions.

It's such a funny and smart way to dive into these movies and make something that hits the audience's funny bone by exposing what many of us were thinking as we watched the movie as adults.

When you replace cartoon physics with actual anatomy, Kevin's "fun and games" become a masterclass in cinematic mayhem.

This is one of those things I think filmmakers can learn a lot about, if they want to learn how to write sketch comedy. You have a clear premise, the stakes are life and death, and a universal story you're parodying that people bring their own expectations to. So your job is to completely subvert them and then keep getting bigger and bigger for laughs.

Let me know what you think in the comments.

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