The man behind some of Americas most iconic horror flicks passed away Sunday. Craven didn’t wait to get to Hollywood before he began to cause a stir. While attending Wheaton College, Craven served as an editor for a campus literary magazine, which ultimately lead the school’s president to denounce him from the pulpit.

The Wheaton Patch reports:

Horror Filmmaker Wes Craven, Wheaton College Alum, Dies at Age 76

Horror movie icon, Wes Craven, died over the weekend at the age of 76.

While the film producer is probably best remembered for his work as the writer and director of a Nightmare on Elm Street (and its terrifying antagonist, Freddy Krueger) and for his creation of the wildly-successful Scream franchise, Craven does have a link to Wheaton. The famous film director graduated from Wheaton College.

But he might not have impressed administrators at the Christian Liberal Arts College, which was also attended by Billy Graham, according to media reports. Craven, who grew up in a family of strict Baptists who actually forbade him from seeing films, began to rebel during his time at Wheaton College.

At Wheaton College, Craven was the editor of the literary magazine. Craven told People in 1989 that the college’s president denounced him from the pulpit and banned the magazine after Craven published a love story about a white woman and a black man and another story about a girl who was not married but was pregnant.

Craven told The Los Angeles Times in 2010 that Wheaton College students could get expelled for watching a movie.

“It was ridiculous,” he said.