Home Alone director Chris Columbus believes the franchise was ruined by "really bad sequels".
The moviemaker directed the 1990 original and its follow up Home Alone 2: Lost in New York two years later with both movies starring Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister but the series continued without the director and lead actor spawning Home Alone 3 and 4 as well as Home Alone: The Holiday Heist and Home Sweet Home Alone, but Columbus is adamant the series "went downhill" from the third film.
