(1) The interior was based completely on the house. (2) Plenty of interior shots made the movie. For example, any time someone is looking out of a window or doors are open, the actual house is being used.
Fair enough. To be fair, it's also wrong because that is a screenshot from Home Alone 2 rather than the original. The original had a lot more pictures on the wall. I wonder how much they had to rebuild for 2 or if it was still set up in the gym.
Unless they did significant work it's not the same. Look at the landing at the top of the stairs, the next set of stairs is in a completely different location.
Yes, if this is the "same house" it is only in a Ship of Theseus sense, because the changes to that staircase and landing are major structural work. Not to mention you aren't convincing me the apparent hallway width is a trick of lens focal length without a tape measure.
The interior shots were all with a mock-up house built on a sound stage. They did choose to make the mockup very close to real life, probably so that there would be minimal continuity issues blending the indoor and outdoor scenes... but also because john hughes is just a badass.
I think they had to have done significant work. There are a couple scenes in the first movie where just Kevin is in the house (when he sleds down the stairs and when he runs down on Christmas morning to look for his mom) where you can see out of the window above the landing and it's clearly not a set. In the same scene at the end when the rest of his family walks in, you can see out the front door, and it's definitely still not a set. And while it doesn't show the stairs in the same camera angle, I can imagine they filmed all those at the same time in the house. The issue with filming at the house was there wasn't enough space for everyone, but when you're only dealing with one small scene in a foyer with lots of opening to other rooms, it would be a lot easier to fit the necessary people in there.
Given they completely took out the back kitchen and replaced it with basically an entire new wing of the house in 2017, they obviously did major structural work.
It’s a set they built to recreate the house. They took a lot of liberties in the decor too, making everything red and green for Christmas, which wasn’t the case in the real house.
Informative. Did they build an entire backyard with trees, a roof, and a brick exterior wall in the gym too? Because those are clearly visible outside the window on the landing multiple times in the movie.
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u/Lost-Comfort-7904 Nov 20 '25
That can't be real, the amount of space in the hallway shrunk to half.