I hope you are having a lovely Christmas Day, celebrating with your family or friends or whatever it is you are doing. Because I’m about to straight-up ruin it for you with this revelation about the classic festive film Home Alone.
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Now, some of you may be aware of this fact and will be on our dicks in the comments saying things like: “Pedestrian you idiots how did you not know this” or the more straight to the point “Shut up pedestrian”, or even the old favourite: “another excuse for ‘journalism’ from fucking Pedestrian” and wow did I just a touch a nerve in myself here, I think I did?
Anyway, if you knew about this, FINE, but I didn’t know about it and neither did cool Hollywood star Seth Rogen so that’s good enough for me. Basically, what happened is this: over Xmas Seth decided to re-watch the 1990 classic and learned a mind-blowing fact which he shared with his followers and then blew their minds with it.
You know the film-within-a-film that Kevin McAllister (Macaulay Culkin) is obsessed with in Home Alone and uses to help him take down the bad guys? Well, it’s not a real movie — a fact that Seth did not know.
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
While some people already knew this, others were just as fkn gobsmacked.
Yeah man. You deserved to find out in a better way than this.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) December 25, 2018
Sorry dude. Merry Christmas ya filthy animal.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) December 25, 2018
I’m sorry you had to find out this way.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) December 25, 2018
We’re all learning. This was the tweet heard round the world.
— John Cohen (@JohnCohen1) December 25, 2018
Wait… It isn’t?
— Frankie Muniz (@frankiemuniz) December 25, 2018
Some people were kinda angry:
https://twitter.com/ThatWas3Too/status/1077663472186462208
https://twitter.com/CEO/status/1077713919618109441
Yo. Way to ruin Christmas, Rogen. Next, you’re gonna tell me Santa isn’t real, too. #gutted
— Daniel Rengering (@DanielRengering) December 26, 2018
Others, of course, HAD to be the smartest people on earth.
Maaaaan real home alone fans know this. Kevin also actually drew that map, I tried to buy it.
— preston pohl (@PrestonPohl) December 25, 2018
Guys, seriously…….? I get not knowing during the first one, but lost in New York was a dead giveaway…lol
— Schlosh Beezy (@Schloshbeezy) December 25, 2018
While others had more enterprising ideas:
Time for you and Franco to make it into a real movie.
— Dan McFarlane (@Dan_The_TV_Man) December 25, 2018
Yes, yes do that please.
Since Twitter is a space for know-it-alls, a few users pointed out that yes, the film, entitled “Angels With Filthy Souls” was indeed just made for Home Alone and that its “sequel”, called “Angels With Filthier Souls” appears in Home Alone‘s actual sequel, Home Alone 2: Lost In New York.
A 2015 Vanity Fair article details the making of the one minute and 20 sec “movie”, saying that the crew only had one day to shoot it, with director of photography Julio Macat telling the publication: “We went for it”. You suuure did, Julio, and it had us all (okay fine, 80% of us) fooled.
Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals.
