Nightmare Fuel / Home Alone

• The intro is actually surprisingly creepy. The image of a lone house, plus John Williams's music, really plays up the image of being alone and paranoid.
• The wreath of the McCallister residence at the beginning of the movie features a rather mean-looking Santa, with his eyes in shadow Fist of the North Star style... and then they zoom in on the thing! Yeesh!
• The furnace's "HELLOOO KEVIIIN!!" Doubles as in-universe Nightmare Fuel for Kevin.
  • Nullified by the fact that Kevin simply tells it to shut up.
  • The basement. Kevin goes down to see if any of his family hiding there. Among the objects is an upper part of a female mannequin.
• Marley, another in-universe horror for Kevin, as evidenced by his scream when they run into each other outside Kevin's house. Thankfully, Kevin eventually becomes friends with him.
• Marley is Nightmare Fuel out-of-universe as well. Especially the creepy music that plays every time he shows up, backed with the way he glares at Kevin, until the reveal.
• Buzz's tarantula, Harry and Marv to some people, and a few of the booby traps.
• Highlights of the traps: the nail through Marv's foot, the glass ornament stepping, the tarantula, and of course the blow-torch lighting Harry's head on fire.
  • When Harry and Marv manage to catch Kevin, they gleefully claim that everything Kevin did to them, they're going to do to him. All those booby traps? Not so funny when you picture those things being done to an eight-year-old boy. Harry even said he was going to bite off all of Kevin's fingers one at a time, and had every intention of going through with it. He actually had one in his mouth before Marley came in to rescue Kevin.
  • According to Culkin, he still has a scar on his finger. In fact, he and Joe Pesci even shared some real-life animosity, partly because of this incident.
  • So that Nightmare Fuel stems from aforementioned method acting at something that's supposed to be Slap Stick.
• The first drafts for the movie included a nightmare sequence by Kevin that got as far as being storyboarded before being cut because it was too expensive and instead just has the furnace roar Kevin's name in the final version used in the movie.
  • The first draft shows that after he falls asleep while watching home videos, he is awakened by his father's voice and sees his family on the TV screen without him. They talk about how they are at wherever he wished them away to with a nice new house with a Christmas tree with creepy cheerfulness. With a warm smile, Kate tells Kevin that the place they're at is like Heaven but they're unsure if it really is. She also says not to blame himself because he didn't know what he was saying and that she hopes this doesn't ruin his Christmas. The image goes out, leaving Kevin alone again. Suddenly, nutcrackers come to life and corner Kevin against a trash compacter which squeezes him into a Christmas present shape and it launches him down the laundry chute which leaves him face-to-face with the furnace, which also comes to life and chases Kevin up the stairs, its pipes being used like tentacles. Kevin manages to escape upstairs, only to find that everything in the house has come to life and is out to kill him. Kevin escapes through the attic but even the icicles on the roof attack him too. Finally, one of the pipes from the furnace bursts through the roof and launches Kevin into the night sky, which causes him to wake up screaming.
  • The second draft has Kevin constantly believing that things in the house are alive, only to go back to normal. The nutcrackers sing a demented version of "Silent Night" and the grandfather clock becomes disoriented. When he realizes how cold the house is, Kevin goes down into the basement to check the furnace. The mannequins down there come alive and mock Kevin. When he reaches the furnace, it roars at him which sends him running upstairs.
  • The third draft follows the second draft's dream but shortens it down to just having the furnace come alive and rip itself from the wall before charging at Kevin.
• While Harry getting the spider on his face is very funny, it leans a little towards this page if you notice it puts its leg in his mouth!