If we think of the legendary films set at Christmas, many will remember them Love in fact, The Grumpy and, as it could not be otherwise, alone at home. The film introduced us to a little Macaulay Culkin, who He conquered an entire generation with his role as Kevin McCallister. This boy, whom his family forgets during a trip, finds himself alone on Christmas night and must defend his house against two thieves who are trying to steal it.
The story of alone at home Not only was it a hit in 1990, when the film hit theaters, but it’s still being talked about 30 years later. Many people watch the feature film every year around the Christmas period. However, most do not know that, a few months before its release, a The French film featured a very similar plot. Of course, much darker and more violent than the one directed by Chris Columbus.
Defend the house from a thief dressed as Santa
The movie we’re talking about is called 3615 Santa Claus code (Game Over: the game is overin Spanish), directed and written by René Manzor. The French film tells the story of Thomas de Frémont, a nine-year-old boy who is a fan of action films who, on Christmas night, undertakes a mission: he wants to prove the existence of Santa Claus himself.
To achieve this, the child transforms the entire family home into a huge playground, equipped with cameras and traps to track the character who distributes the gifts. Everything changes when the man hired to play Santa Claus in Thomas’ mother’s toy store, a violent and disturbed guydecides to attack the family home after being fired.
The man ends up sneaking into the house and Thomas will have to fight to survive. The film, premiered in France a few months earlier alone at homeproposed a story similar to the one featuring Culkin. A child protagonist who must face a bully. However, the French feature film is a thriller which has elements of psychological horror and which has a very Darker, more violent and disturbing than typical Christmas movies.
Did “Home Alone” copy the movie?
If we replace the character of the Culkin thieves with a murderous Santa Claus, the similarities between alone at home And Game Over: the game is over They are more than obvious. According to the New York Times in 1992, the French filmmaker René Manzor tried to take legal action against the American film crew. “They made a new version of my film. I have no choice but to sue them,” he said at the time.
The American newspaper explains that Manzor contacted Fox, the studio which produced the film. alone at hometo try to reach an agreement. However, these They denied any similarity between the two films.. According to screenwriter and producer John Hughes, the film’s main inspiration came while planning a family vacation to Paris. He then thought about what would happen if he forgot one of his children. Hughes denied having seen the French film.
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