“I got stuck in the stairwell of my house”

The “Get Out” filmmaker, who shared the photos with Jimmy Fallon, also dressed up as “Baby Forest Whitaker.”

Don't expect to find horror author Jordan Peele's childhood Halloween costumes in the aisles of Spirit Halloween.

The filmmaker came by recently The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and brought photos of past Halloween costumes, each still niche for a little boy. “As a kid, I was the Halloween man,” Peele said.

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One year, Peele dressed up as a poker table, complete with a plate of pretzels in his hand and beer cans scattered across it. “I got stuck in the stairwell of my house trying to get out to go trick-or-treating,” he said. For another year, Peele dressed up as a half devil and half angel, with one half of his face painted white and the other half red.

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“That’s a complicated costume,” Fallon noted.

Peele quipped: “Yeah, if your kid wants to dress like that, you know you're in trouble. Lots of nuances.”

Less niche is the year Peele dressed up as Michael Keaton's Beetlejuice, which he says was at a time when the iconic pinstripe suit or crazy hairstyle wasn't yet in stores. “You had to find things in the trash,” Peele said of his involvement with the costume.

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Perhaps the biggest niche of all is a recent costume from a few years ago, when Peele dressed up as “Baby Forest Whitaker.” “People would get scared,” he said.

The filmmaker behind such horror hits like Exit And Us is currently promoting his reboot of the early 2000s Syfy comedy-horror reality show Scaremongeringplunges the unsuspecting victim into elaborately staged situations in which their wildest fears are exploited. Peele is executive producing the reboot now on USA Network, which just began last week with a premiere centered on the birth of a fake demon baby.

Speaking to Fallon, Peele recalled watching the original series in its heyday and shared that it taught him about the psychology of fear. “It's hard to write a horror script because you're always putting your main character in a situation where most people would just get up and leave,” Peele said. “It is difficult to understand why people find themselves in a frightening situation. scaremongering, Every day I just watch it and see how real people justify staying in really scary situations and it's so much fun.”

For more on Peele, check out his full interview above.

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