Starring: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O’Hara, Devin Ratray
The Truce Is Over. The Traps Are Upgraded.
The holiday season is about to get dangerously nostalgic. Home Alone 6: Kevin Strikes Back (2026) plunges the beloved Christmas mayhem into a new, high-tech era as Macaulay Culkin returns to the iconic role of Kevin McCallister, armed with adult-level resources and a profoundly paranoid imagination.
Kevin is no longer the resourceful eight-year-old left behind. He is now a genius-level CEO and security architect, having channeled his childhood trauma into a thriving multi-billion-dollar career designing impenetrable, state-of-the-art security systems for everything from celebrity mansions to federal buildings. He has built empires, protected cities, and invented gadgets that often blur the lines of legality. But underneath the expensive suit and the guarded exterior, he remains the kid who once defended a house with nothing but ingenuity and a crippling desire for solitude.
The Wet Bandits Reborn
The terrifying but welcome twist occurs when Kevin flies home for Christmas after years of self-imposed absence. He is met with a nightmare realized: Harry Lime (Joe Pesci) and Marv Merchants (Daniel Stern) have orchestrated yet another improbable prison break. Now older, angrier, and determined to finally settle a decades-long score, the legendary dimwits assemble a new, more serious criminal cohort: The Wet Bandits Reborn.
Their mission is simple and driven by pure, unadulterated vengeance: Break into the legendary McCallister fortress, capture Kevin, and inflict justice for every humiliating paint can, every scorching doorknob, and every single brick to the face they’ve endured across two decades.
The McCallister House: A High-Tech Warzone
The showdown transforms the already vast McCallister home into a dazzling, lethal, and wickedly funny high-tech warzone. Kevin’s traps have evolved from simple gravity to complex kinetic energy systems:
- Silent Night Flamethrowers: Motion-activated, hidden flamethrowers disguised as charming Christmas wreaths and outdoor lights.
- Olympic Skating Rink: The main hallway is flash-frozen and polished to a near-frictionless ice-slick, complete with a remotely activated ice resurfacer.
- Ornament Drones: Lightweight drones dropping sharp, explosive ornament bombs from the vaulted ceiling.
- The Nutcracker Turret: A heavy-duty, mechanized nutcracker statue in the living room equipped with rubber-bullet-firing capability.
- The Trap Floor: An entire room installed with pressure-triggered freezing tiles that instantly lock intruders’ feet in place.
- Candy-Cane Cannon: A high-velocity, peppermint-striped projectile launcher that Kevin should, absolutely, never legally possess.
Meanwhile, Harry and Marv—slower, creakier, but still unbelievably stupid—keep walking headlong into every device with heroic, yet pathetic, amounts of pain tolerance and zero noticeable brain activity.
A Family Affair
As the chaos peaks, Kate McCallister (Catherine O’Hara) and Buzz McCallister (Devin Ratray)—now a local police officer—arrive home early, only to find themselves running a panicked, civilian support operation in a house that’s become a deadly obstacle course. Kevin must confront not just the criminals, but the deep-seated trauma that made him this way, realizing that truly coming home means letting down his guard to protect the family he loves, no matter how insane the battle gets.
Explosive, nostalgic, and wickedly hilarious, Kevin Strikes Back proves one definitive holiday truth: You can grow up… but a McCallister trap never does.