Director Jordan Peele has been freaking us out for years, from some truly messed up Key & Peele sketches, to the Oscar-winning Get Out, to his critically-acclaimed horror film, Us.
But he wasn't always the one in control, as he told Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show. It took a mere poster for Wes Craven's 1984 classic A Nightmare on Elm Street to give him night terrors as a child. And to be honest, fair enough.
"I'd see like, the Nightmare on Elm Street poster and it would just creep me out. Not even the whole movie, you know, for like two years I was just creeped out by that poster," he said. You should see his own Us poster.
Peele said storytelling helped him to conquer his fears, telling Fallon that during a trip in ninth grade, he told a scary story that absolutely captivated his audience.
"The best laugh you've ever gotten in your life is nothing. When you get an audience to shudder and to give you that feedback, it's so powerful," he said. "I just felt like, you know, I am Freddy Krueger. I can be the monster. I can give the night terrors."
