“Saturday Night Live” celebrated the holidays with this year’s Christmas special over the weekend, and the episode continued a tradition of putting a bloody spin on a Christmas classic.

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol took an unexpectedly gruesome turn back in 2022, and “Saturday Night Live” gave a similar treatment to 1990’s Home Alone in the latest episode.

Host Ariana Grande played Kevin McCallister in the pre-taped sketch video, which played out like an alternate ending to Home Alone. Kevin’s family returns home to find that Kevin’s brutal traps for...