Home Alone 3: 2024 fan ‘trailer’ sees Macaulay Culkin’s Kevin McCallister get revenge on the Wet Bandits

A trailer for Home Alone 3 has been made, and Kevin McCallister is all grown up and ready to fight the recently released Wet Bandits. But wait, you’re thinking, there already was a Home Alone 3, and it was rubbish.

Well, you’re right, Home Alone 3 was a standalone 1997 sequel to the first two films starring Alex D. Linz as the new abandoned kid on the block, Alex Pruitt. But this newly released fan-made trailer imagines a Home Alone 3 in which Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, and Daniel Stern reunite for one more Christmas.

The trailer picks up three decades after the events of Home Alone 2: Lost In New York, which saw Harry and Marv taken to prison after a failed toy store heist. Now they’re out, but Kevin’s not done with them yet. 

Is the Home Alone 3 trailer real?

Unfortunately the trailer for Home Alone 3: Kevin’s Revenge, a direct sequel to Lost in New York, is a joke fan-made trailer, which uses archival footage and other films the cast have starred in, as well as crafty editing to make a surprisingly realistic clip.

The trailer, made by YouTuber @VJ4rawr2, who has made other fake trailers including Titanic 2, The Batman Multiverse, and Frying Dory, features a narrator saying ‘this year, it’s time to rediscover a classic. Kevin McCallister is back, except this family is a little weird around Christmas.’

An adult Kevin McCallister is seen opening his front door to find a note left by the Wet Bandits, who he helped send to prison more than 30 years before, telling him that they’re back. 

We learn from a news report that Kevin has boobytrapped his house with ‘guns, explosives, and possibly tarantulas’, whilst clips show Marv tied to a chair. 

Clips cut from Home Sweet Home alone, in which Devin Ratray reprised his role as Kevin’s older brother Buzz, show him now working as a police officer. In this trailer he keeps watch on the house and prevents other officers from interfering in Kevin’s brutal quest for revenge.

It picks up from where Home Alone 2: Lost in New York left off - with clumsy criminals Harold 'Harry' Lyme (Joe Pesci) and Marvin 'Marv' Merchants (Daniel Stern) being hauled off to jail following their toy store heist.

All four of the Home Alone films, and the 2021 spin-off series Home Sweet Home Alone, are available to stream now on Disney+.