DREAM-HOME ALONE

Inside the REAL Home Alone film house in Chicago as it looks now – and you can stay in it

THIS time of year might be all about turkey, presents and trees - but nothing says Christmas like Home Alone's Kevin McCallister screaming in the halls of his parents' enormous house.

The movie, which many Brits watch religiously every Christmas season, is now a staggering 32 years old - and the home where it was shot is still going strong.

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Of course, the super-rich McCallisters don't actually live there - or perhaps they're still stuck in Paris.

Organisers promised a warm welcome rather than, say, an iron to the face or a blowtorch to the head.

Many of the rooms will still be instantly familiar to fans as the places where Kevin, played by Macaulay Culkin - who is now 41, foiled .

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Let's take a look around how the home, in Chicago, USA, looks these days...

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There was a four-poster bed, a huge TV and even a whacking great fireplace alongside some very dubious wallpaper.

These days the style is a lot more stripped-back - but fans will be delighted to know the mansion's master suite has kept its four-poster bed all these years later.

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