---
title: "Home Alone’s Macaulay Culkin: Car Guy?"
description: "A twitchy, much older Kevin emerges in a Honda Fit. We are duly frightened."
date: "2015-12-18"
modified: "2015-12-18"
authors:
  - name: "Ben Keeshin"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/ben-keeshin"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/1380/home-alones-macaulay-culkin-car-guy"
categories:
  - "Culture"
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Home Alone"
  - "Macaulay Culkin"
---

# Home Alone’s Macaulay Culkin: Car Guy?

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Twenty-five years after the release of [*Home Alone*, Macaulay Culkin is back on screen antagonizing](<https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/videos/see-macaulay-culkin-revisit-traumatized-home-alone-character-20151217>), and injuring, would-be criminals. The 35-year-old actor is reprising his role as Kevin as part of Moldy Peaches guitarist Jack Dishel’s new [web series, :DRYVRS](<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaJg6D3jn0JFVNXb3YW68xA>), in which rides in an Uber-like car service go horribly, horrifyingly wrong. The premise? As it turns out, being relentlessly pursued by middle-aged men as an eight-year-old is really traumatic, and has major fallout.

A twitchy, long-haired Kevin-Culkin picks up Dishel in what turns out to be his *wife’s* red Honda Fit. She did “too much blow,” so Kevin, who doesn’t even drive, was roped in to do :DRYVRS duty. Dishel offers to take the wheel, and it soon becomes apparent that beyond unable to drive, Kevin is unfit to be a human moving through the world. Kevin harkens back to that time in the early Nineties when he was "the cutest fucking eight-year-old in the universe, by far.” Despite that, his mom was distant and, clearly, forgetful. As a result, young Kevin was victimized. "I still have nightmares about this bald weirdo dude chasing me around talking like Yosemite Sam," a frazzled Kevin mutters with a cigarette between his lips. "They don't even curse!"

However, all that stress was not for nothing. Late in episode, a car-jacked attempts to steal Kevin’s wife’s sweet red Honda at gunpoint—not knowing, of course, that he was dealing with a sadistic, *MacGyver* type. With, of course, a wire hanger, Old Kevin uses the Fit’s cigarette lighter to burn the gun out of the criminal’s hand then wraps him, in classic fast-forward speed, in rope. The next scene opens with the would-be carjacker tressed in Christmas lights, about to be subjected to the cruel whims of the same person who [put a tarantula](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90FR8m-zEH4>) on another person’s face. It’s gruesome.

https://youtube.com/embed/yh7-wAy_8ss

## Author
Ben Keeshin is a former staff writer for Maxim, and before that, contributed writing to the digital sides of Road & Track and Vanity Fair.

### Author social links  
[Twitter](<https://twitter.com/BnKshn>)