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Meanwhile, Unger attempts to clip Alex's yarn fence, which turns out to be wired with copper to an outlet. A decent trap at best, but what excels it is that it brings down two victims. Petr attempts to investigate, and the planks hit his face and make him fall right onto Alice as his gun goes off.
Finn shoots her three times in the butt with ping pong balls using his slingshot. This causes her to kick Sinclair and Hughes hard in the groin and face when they're trying to pull her out of the window. Gets hit in the groin with a hockey stick by Alice when she attempts to kill Alex's pet rat, Doris.
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Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. One hits Marv square in the face, and Harry turns to talk to him. Another swings down, hits him straight into the other one, and down he goes too. Some kind of green slime loosens Harry’s grip on this shortened ladder, forcing him to fall flat on his back. To add insult to injury, a big glob of the green goo falls straight on his face.
He's only really got about a day to prepare, and that means that, while some traps are extremely elaborate, others are tried-and-true classics that are simple yet effective, if only for a few moments. Marv finally seems to catch a break upon entering the basement. Poor Marv pulls a string, thinking it is a light, and brings a hot clothing iron down a laundry chute.
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The wire is firm enough and placed high enough that, when Harry runs into it, it flips him head over heels, sending him sprawling across the floor. Marv is lucky enough to miss it, but because Harry fell, he only manages to grab Kevin's pant leg. Is sent flying, slides across the floor knocking over Jeff, and bounces down the stairs on a yoga ball.
As Harry and Marv reach the top of the stairs in the original film, this instrument of guerrilla warfare manages to put Harry head over heels. Watching that nail sink into Marv's foot is painful when all you're doing is sitting on the couch, so we can only imagine how much it might have hurt if it was real. Unless you're in the habit of walking around outside barefoot to build up tough callouses, the bottoms of your feet are very vulnerable to all manner of nicks, cuts, tears, and pokes. Kevin knows this, probably thanks to having stepped on more than a few of his own toys over the years, and he uses it to his advantage when the Wet Bandits come calling. Sometimes, in a tense survival situation, you have to do your best to let your natural surroundings work for you.
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After dodging two paint cans in a reference to the original film, Harry and Marv get smacked by a large pipe attached to a rope. One has to admire Kevin’s magical ability to predict that he’d need a third item to toss at the crooks. Marv stumbles barefoot through an open window by Kevin’s Christmas tree, and he steps on glass ornaments. Painful, sure, but it’s not likely to send one into a coma. Home Alone 3 is a 1997 American Christmas family comedy film. In the first film there was a head-height blow-torch, which left Harry’s hat on fire.
His right hand is severely burned when he places it on the searing-hot doorknob . Although he puts it out with snow near the stairs, it inflicts a permanent scar in the shape of a capital "m" which is seen in the sequel. That's okay, Marv sums it up best with his loud and intense scream which Daniel Stern perfectly delivers. To add insult and injury to injury, Marv falls off the stairs right onto the hard floor of the basement, likely causing some damage to the spine. Meanwhile, Marv gets the worst of the two; one step onto the basement stairs causes him to slide down over ten steps of ice. Concrete steps too and hearing Marv's screams vibrate as he slides down is too hilarious.
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Then the little bastard keeps jacking the electricity up. Although this might kill a man, the over-the-top cartoon nature of the scene makes it less painful to watch than what lies further down the list. You would be surprised how easy it is to craft a set of deadly traps with just a little bit of handiness.
What he finds as he starts climbing, though, is that Kevin has painted each step with a heavy coating of tar. Thinking it's just sticky stuff that the kid put there to slow him down, he keeps climbing even as his shoes and socks are pulled off his feet. Then, he steps on the carefully placed upturned nail Kevin hid on one of the steps.
This noise lures Mr. Beaupre to open the door, expecting to find a scared child and instead getting a boxing glove launched right into his body. This is another scenario where it is one of the earlier traps sprung in the film and getting to see how Alex arms the trap gives the audience insight into what he is capable of doing. This is also incredibly important as it is the first Home Alone film to not star Kevin, and Alex needed to be able to stand on his own as a devious genius. So, the first traps of the movie are essentially the electric chair and an actual security fence? Burton's electric chair gets worse when his shotgun shells start firing, thus sending him into a wall.
If you know "Home Alone," you know we're not just talking about whoopee cushions and squirting flowers. By the end of the night, the bandits probably needed an emergency room visit as well as a trip to the police station. After reuniting, Harry and Marv proceed to run towards the stairs and trip over toy cars. The Home Alone series is no stranger to pratfalls involving the baddies falling onto their backs, but this one is on a wooden floor — downright comfy compared to what we see further down the list. So far we've talked about traps that made the Wet Bandits slip and fall, traps that bashed them in the head, even traps that cut their feet. After they both take BB gun shots at the kitchen door, Harry tells Marv to try the McCallister house's basement, while he heads for the front door.
Is blinded by an outdoor light, trips over a Christmas tree, and gets tangled up in its lights. Gets hit in the head by a bag of flour connected to a rope and a jug of milk connected to another rope. Has his head accidently get hit by a door repeatedly by Pam. Gets really scared after Finn sets up his room to look like it's haunted by Jimmy "Dead Leg" Gravano's ghost. Gets kicked hard in the groin and face while trying to pull Jessica out of a window .
For Kevin McCallister, that meant harnessing the power of winter in his home city of Chicago and using it to slow the Wet Bandits down before they even got in the door. Honestly, depending on how deep the snow was, the bandits might have been better off just letting go and landing in the yard. It's the swing into the bricks that probably left the bigger bruises, and maybe even a cracked rib or two. He peels the plastic off, walks a little further, and trips a rope that activates a fan, which blows feathers all across this face. Gets shot with darts with thumbtacks attached to them by two Nerf guns.
With currently six movies in the franchise, the Home Alone films always seem to draw audiences in with the promise of fun, wacky traps. Not all traps are created equal, however, and some stand out above others as the most creative, elaborate, or simply entertaining to watch unfold! Here are the top 13 traps from across all the Home Alone movies. It's not the worst movie in the series by far, but it was a very disappointing sequel for many.
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