One big flaw with this theory is the clear age difference between Kevin McCallister and Jigsaw. While the “Home Alone” movies never explicitly mention their timelines, we can assume that their stories occur in the early 1990s, when the first two films were released. In the first movie, Kevin is 8 years old, meaning he’d be a teenager in 2001, when “Saw” is presumably set — if the date on Lawrence Gordon’s (Cary Elwes) cellphone is anything to go by. Jigsaw is clearly a seasoned adult in the first “Saw,” so based on that, he can’t be the kid from “Home Alone.”
Despite this, James Wan got a kick out of this fan theory. While speaking to HuffPost, he said he loves it when people have fun with his movies, and he didn’t rule out the possibility of Kevin McCallister and Jigsaw being one and the same. “I should’ve known all along that Macaulay Culkin would grow up to be John Kramer,” he joked.
Still, it’s unsurprising that “Home Alone” has been connected to a gruesome horror franchise. After all, the family holiday favorite has seemingly inspired horror filmmakers for years, and it may also have been influenced by a spooky home invasion flick from the 1980s.
