Jordan Peele Tells Fan To ‘Put Down The Phone’ After Calling Him ‘Best Horror Director Of All Time’

Jordan Peele, who is set to release his third film as director with Nope, took to Twitter to lightly shut down one overeager fan singing his praises extremely passionately. The tweet shared the Rotten Tomatoes scores of Peele’s films, and asked “at one point do we declare Jordan Peele the best horror director of all time?”

“Can you think of another horror director that had 3 great films? Let alone 3 in a row? I can’t,” the tweet’s author Adam Ellis also wrote. Obviously, this statement alone would get online film snobs upset, but it even caught Peele’s eye since he was laying the praise on very thick, and at the detriment of other great directors.

Peele responded with, “Sir, please put the phone down I beg you.” When his response absolutely blew up, the director later clarified, “I love your enthusiasm but, I will not tolerate any John Carpenter slander!!”

The “slander” Peele is referring to is another statement Ellis made in this thread, in which he claimed that the only great horror movie made by Carpenter is Halloween. Now everyone is entitled to their opinions, but acting like The Thing doesn’t exist and isn’t incredible in this day and age is ridiculous, even if it was panned upon release.

Now, it’s never fun to be the “main character” of Twitter, and Adam shouldn’t be getting any sort of hate just because he shared his opinion with the world. It’s still funny in our age of social media to see the interaction that sometimes happens between filmmakers and their fans since they are closer than ever on Twitter nowadays.