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

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

The filmmaker recently came by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and brought along photos of Halloween costumes from the past, each more niche than the last for a young boy. “I was the Halloween guy when I was a kid,” 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 on top. “I got stuck in the stairwell of my house trying to get out for trick-or-treating,” he said. For another year, Peele dressed up as half devil, half angel, with one half of his face painted white and the other red.

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“That’s an elaborate costume,” Fallon noted.

Peele joked, “Yeah, if your kid wants to dress like that, you know you’re in trouble. Lots of nuance.”

Less niche is the year Peele dressed up as Michael Keaton’s Beetlejuice, which he says was at a time when they didn’t yet have the iconic pinstripe suit or crazy hair in stores. “You had to find stuff in the garbage,” Peele said of his dedication to the costume.

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Perhaps the most 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 horror hits like Go away And Us is currently promoting its reboot of the early 2000s Syfy comedy-horror reality show Scare tacticswho pushes unsuspecting victims into elaborately staged situations in which they exploit their wildest fears. Peele director is now producing the reboot on USA Network, which kicked off last week with a premiere featuring the birth of a fake demon baby.

Speaking to Fallon, Peele recalled watching the original series in its heyday and said it taught him about the psychology of fear. “It’s hard to write a horror script because you always put your main character in a situation where most people would just get up and leave,” Peele said. “It’s hard to understand why people would keep themselves in a scary situation. scare tactics, Every day I watched it and you see how real people justify being in really creepy situations, and it’s so much fun.”

For more on Peele, watch his interview in full above.

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