Kids. You've got to love them right? Right? Well if Hollywood has taught us anything it's that abstaining from ever creating life with your partner is a very good idea indeed. That's right movie kids are almost always vile little twerps that you wouldn't think twice about putting up for adoption if you were ever unfortunate enough to turn out to be their biological parent. And the ones that aren't totally horrible? Well they're usually sickly sweet good two shoes who you'll be equally annoyed by so either way you're just not going to win. There are some child characters who out awful everyone else by miles though and they will forever be remembered as the vilest little rug rats ever to grace your television sets. In case you've forgotten who those little b******s are we've assembled a list just to remind you because quite frankly why should we be the only ones still having nightmares?
6. Kevin McCallister (Home Alone, 1990)
The Home Alone franchise can be blamed for several of Hollywood's biggest problems today. First of all it fooled exec's into thinking that chucking 'cute' kids in lead roles guaranteed them big box office. A fair assumption given the success of the John Hughes classic which grossed almost half a billion dollars at the box office but the same could not be said for the countless sequels or the shameless rip-off's that followed (The Dog That Saved Christmas anyone?). It also unleashed Macaulay Culkin onto an unsuspecting world as well as his hundreds of equally irritating siblings. If you look at the plot of Home Alone it really isn't hard to see why young Kevin McCallister's parents left him at home and buggered off on holiday to France. Who wouldn't? The diminutive little sprog who is referred to as "a disease" by his family goes out of his way to get on everyone's nerves just hours before the Christmas vacation. But the family's gleeful loss (they pretend they're upset) is Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern's unfortunate gain as they are foiled time and time again in their attempts to burgle the supposedly empty Illinois home. In reality young Kevin would have been no match for the two 'Sticky Bandits' but this is a John Hughes movie damn it and the little guy ain't being kicked around no more giving an entire generation of precocious little people an inflated sense of being 'bad ass' that in turn resulted in countless parents being shot in the testicles by their gun toting offspring. John Hughes was a brilliant man but we'll never quite forgive him for this particular casting choice. Shame on you John. Shame on you.
Kids. You've got to love them right? Right? Well if Hollywood has taught us anything it's that abstaining from ever creating life with your partner is a very good idea indeed. That's right movie kids are almost always vile little twerps that you wouldn't think twice about putting up for adoption if you were ever unfortunate enough to turn out to be their biological parent. And the ones that aren't totally horrible? Well they're usually sickly sweet good two shoes who you'll be equally annoyed by so either way you're just not going to win. There are some child characters who out awful everyone else by miles though and they will forever be remembered as the vilest little rug rats ever to grace your television sets. In case you've forgotten who those little b******s are we've assembled a list just to remind you because quite frankly why should we be the only ones still having nightmares? 