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Jordan Peele Reveals How He Went From Being Terrified Of The 'Nightmare On Elm Street' Poster To A Master Of Horror

Jordan Peele Reveals How He Went From Being Terrified Of The 'Nightmare On Elm Street' Poster To A Master Of Horror
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Jordan Peele has been hailed as a new master of horror after 2017's smash hit Get Out snagged him the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Us, his follow up feature, has already been hailed as a horror classic by film critics ahead of its official release this Friday.


But did you know Peele wasn't always the guy who could give us scenes like this?

Get Out (2017) - The Sunken Place Scene (1/10) | Movieclipswww.youtube.com

Or trailers as wild and as weird as this?

US Trailer (2019)www.youtube.com

During an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Peele said that he suffered from night terrors as a child and that all it took was the poster for Wes Craven's 1984 classic A Nightmare on Elm Street to scare the hell out of him:

"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.

We get it, Mr. Peele. Personally that first nightmare kill sequence never fails to give us the heebie jeebies.

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) - Tina's Nightmare Scene (1/10) | Movieclipswww.youtube.com

Peele credits storytelling with helping him conquer his fears.

And although he got his start in comedy––he was a regular on MADTV for years before he and his costar Keegan Michael Key launched Key and Peele––he says that a scary story he told his classmates in the ninth grade helped him understand the power of horror tales:

"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. I just felt like, you know, I am Freddy Krueger. I can be the monster. I can give the night terrors."

You can watch his full interview below.

How Jordan Peele Became His Own "Monster"www.youtube.com

Peele is far from the only person to be creeped out by Wes Craven's horror classic and if that childhood memory is any indication, we have a lot to look forward when Us comes out this week.



In fact, Peele's name has been floated for quite some time as a viable candidate to remake the original film. And Us appears to take a few cues from it, too.



We're ready, Mr. Peele. We just don't know if we'll be able to sleep afterward.

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