2. Home Alone
The Setup: The McCallister family is planning on taking the whole clan to Paris for the holiday season.
What Goes Wrong: The thing is, they leave their youngest son, a precocious 10-year-old named Kevin, behind. At first, Kevin is over the moon with the freedom a parentless home affords; he eats excessive amounts of ice cream, watches dirty movies, and wrecks his annoying older brother's room. It's not all fun and games though and Kevin soon realizes that a pair of serial burglars, who dubbed themselves the wet bandits, has targeted the McCallister home for a Christmas Eve break & enter. Kevin does the only logical thing in this situation and prepares a series of elaborate deathtraps that would at the least severely maim anyone who falls victim to them. Fortunately, these characters reside in a cartoonish reality, so, instead of turning into a grim tale about the origins of a young psychopath who will later grow up to be a Jigsaw-like serial killer, the wet bandits emerge relatively unscathed, despite being stabbed, burnt and shot repeatedly.
The Moral of the Story: Once he vanquishes the would-be robbers, Kevin is reunited with his mother who learns the importance of remembering your loved ones during the holidays because, if you neglect them, they could very well turn into dangerous psychopaths who trap their victims in elaborate death-puzzles for their own amusement.