The following contains spoilers for Violent Night, now playing in theaters.

One of the most entertaining elements of Violent Night is all the ways the film remixes holiday film concepts without simply parroting them. There are goofy subversions and unexpected tweaks to the mythology surrounding Santa Claus (David Harbour), and at times, the film fully shifts into an extended reference to that classic material. One of the films most referenced in Violent Night is the John Hughes-directed Home Alone, with Trudy (Leah Brady) recreating part of the film in earnest when she gets the chance. But befitting the film's gory approach to the holiday, her childish traps come with a bit more hard-hitting realism and actually earn her a kill.

How Violent Night Recreates Home Alone

Violent Night Cast

Early in Violent Night, Trudy Lightstone is introduced as having just watched Home Alone for the first time and quickly reveals herself to be a fan of the classic holiday film, quoting it to her father with gusto. This newfound love for Home Alone is a cute establishing moment for Trudy. But it also comes in handy later in the film, as she and her family confront multiple men serving under the command of the criminal called Mr. Scrooge (John Leguizamo). In the chaos, Trudy escapes and even bumps into Santa, who tells her to hide away in the attic.

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Trudy takes this as an opportunity to live out her own Home Alone-style fantasy, quickly setting several booby traps around the attic. It gives her a chance to survive when two of Scrooge's henchmen locate her. Initially, they brush off the obstacles as pathetic jokes, but their tune quickly turns as the traps prove surprisingly effective. One of them quickly finds himself impaled through the jaw with a nail and then again in the backside when he falls backward, while the other has large portions of her hair ripped off by super glue. One of them even gets killed in a pretty brutal way. While inspecting the nail that just stabbed him, Trudy unleashes a series of bowling balls, which hit the man and drive the nail into his forehead, killing him.

Violent Night Is Home Alone - But For Keeps

Home Alone has had many reexaminations over the years, particularly highlighting the film's casual approach to violence and the traps. While the film treats the bumbling antics of two would-be robbers and their injuries as a joke, the realistic version of the film would have likely killed both men. It's ridiculous when one thinks about it, and some fans have even argued Kevin McCallister was a budding serial killer. Violent Night has fun with that concept by having the score and direction embrace a silly element while not holding back on how lethal some of those traps could be.

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And it's especially funny (and quietly harrowing) because Trudy has no idea what kind of damage she's doing to the pair. Trudy is shown giggling throughout the ordeal, thinking the criminals will wake up the next day with a comical headache. Director Tommy Wirkola even revealed there was almost a gag in the film highlighting this, with the sweet-hearted Trudy completely unaware of what's really happened. It's one of Violent Night's most committed subversions of a holiday classic, which gels well with the rest of the film's goofy and gory approach to the season. It also means that Trudy technically walks away from the movie with her own body count without even realizing it, giving her an advantage over Kevin McCallister's traps.

To see Trudy's Kevin McCallister impression, Violent Night is in theaters now,