10 Deceptively Innocent Movies With Incredibly Dark Moments

While Home Alone and its 1992 sequel are arguably the finest Christmas comedy offerings of all time, this is a pair of films concerning two adult criminals attempting to murder a child and ransack his home.

Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern's Harry and Marv may hardly be Bonnie and Clyde in terms of criminal notoriety, but they're still dangerous felons with a history of violence. While Macaulay Culkin's Kevin McAllister ultimately triumphs over his foes in both of his appearances, the notion of a young boy being held at gunpoint or hung on a door hook while his captors threaten to bite off his fingers, seems more suited to a horror movie than an innocent comedy.

This is all without even touching upon the sheer barbarity of Kevin's iconic booby traps. In the real world, the acts of lighting people on fire with blowtorches, smashing them in the head with bricks and paint cans or shoving nails through their feet - to name but a few - are about as dark as it gets. 

It speaks volumes to the quality of the comedic performances featured in both of the inimitable original instalments that such violence lands to howls of laughter as opposed to gasps of horror.