Getting left at home alone at age eight when your family goes on a Christmas vacation apparently doesn't bode well for a stable, happy adulthood. In a reprisal of his role as Kevin McCallister in Home Alone, Macaulay Culkin returns in an episode of a new web series called DRYVRS, all grown up and still up to his old antics.
This isn't the cute holiday classic you remember, though — it's much, much darker. "I had to fend off my house from two psychopath home invaders," Kevin says, while filling in as an ride-share driver. "I was just a kid. I mean, I still have nightmares about this bald weirdo dude chasing me around.”
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