Unimpressed with Kevin’s behavior, they send him to the attic as punishment. Their son Kevin gets into an ugly fight with his older brother Buzz – further adding to the chaos – as they are already preoccupied with preparations for the trip. Even Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin admitted he thought was a real film.The McCallister family gathers at Peter and Kate’s home a night before their flight to Paris for their Christmas vacation. Actor Seth Rogen confessed in a tweet a year or so ago that he too was convinced it was a real movie, which prompted MCU star Chris Evans to admit the same. The Home Alone crew took pains to make Angels With Filthy Souls look as authentic as possible, shooting the sequence in black and white and using realistic props like Johnny’s Colt 1921AC Thompson submachine gun to suggest an old-timey gangster epic.įilms fans feeling duped by Angels With Filthy Souls shouldn’t feel too bad. The "movie" stars late character actor Ralph Foody, who starred alongside Chuck Norris in 1985's Code Of Silence, as tommy gun-toting gangster Johnny and Michael Guido ( All My Children) as his ill-fated associate Snakes. But, believe it or not, Angels With Filthy Souls is a fictitious film-within-a-film shot specifically for Home Alone, whose title is a nod the real-life 1938 gangster flick Angels With Dirty Faces starring James Cagney.Īngels With Filthy Souls was filmed before principal photography began and – like much of Home Alone– was shot on a sound stage in an abandoned high school. The fact that in Home Alone 2: Lost In New York, Kevin watches its sequel Angels With Even Filthier Souls certainly suggested so too. The gritty, film-noir tone of Angels With Filthy Souls had a lot of people convinced it was a bona fide gangster movie.
Related: All The Evidence Home Alone's Kevin Grows Up To Be Jigsaw Later, Kevin uses dialogue from the movie to terrify a poor pizza delivery guy and to dupe the Wet Bandits - Harry and Marv, played by Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern - into thinking a quick-tempered, trigger-happy gangster lives in his house. One of Home Alone's most quotable lines – “ Keep the change, ya filthy animal” – doesn't come from the film itself, but the gangster movie Angels With Filthy Souls Kevin watches while binge-eating ice cream when he realizes his parents aren’t around to stop him viewing non-PG content. It was the film that propelled a then ten-year-old Macaulay Culkin to fame as Kevin McCallister – a young boy left to defend his home from a burglarizing duo calling themselves the Wet Bandits after his parents accidentally leave him behind when they head off on vacation with his siblings to celebrate Christmas in Paris. Is the gangster flick Angels With Filthy Souls from Home Alone a real movie? Chris Columbus’ 1990 box office smash Home Alone is classic Christmastime viewing.
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