Peter Raleigh
@petreraleigh.bsky.social
movies, socialism, occasionally history. newsletters on film, horror novel in progress. he/him https://peterraleigh.substack.com/
Favorite first watches, September 2026 Eaten Alive (Tobe Hooper, 1976) Hud (Martin Ritt, 1963) Hangover Square (John Brahm, 1945) Kontinental '25 (Radu Jude, 2025)
They're inventing types of being stupid that I could never have predicted in a thousand years
Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt@ugarles.bsky.social · last wk.hellen keller denialism is very popular in the stupidest social media circles around
Afternoon bump. Thanks to everyone who has read and shared so far, appreciate you all as ever
Peter Raleigh@petreraleigh.bsky.social · 2w agoFor Long Library, I wrote a little about Onslaught, which I enjoyed, but which resorts to pastiche and imitation to a degree I find worryingly emblematic. Hope you enjoy peterraleigh.substack.com/p/onslaught-...
For Long Library, I wrote a little about Onslaught, which I enjoyed, but which resorts to pastiche and imitation to a degree I find worryingly emblematic. Hope you enjoy peterraleigh.substack.com/p/onslaught-...
Onslaught Illustrates The Gravitational Pull of Pastiche
Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett’s The Guest (2014) was a film in some ways just a little bit ahead of its cultural moment.
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new Peter just dropped let’s fuckin gooooooooooooo
Peter Raleigh@petreraleigh.bsky.social · 2w agoFor Long Library, I wrote a little about Onslaught, which I enjoyed, but which resorts to pastiche and imitation to a degree I find worryingly emblematic. Hope you enjoy peterraleigh.substack.com/p/onslaught-...
For Long Library, I wrote a little about Onslaught, which I enjoyed, but which resorts to pastiche and imitation to a degree I find worryingly emblematic. Hope you enjoy peterraleigh.substack.com/p/onslaught-...
Onslaught Illustrates The Gravitational Pull of Pastiche
Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett’s The Guest (2014) was a film in some ways just a little bit ahead of its cultural moment.
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This is probably a more or less consensus opinion among Western decision makers at this point which is a shame given that it's a thing you have to be literally insane to believe
rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3w ago'oh so you want china to beat us' bro what the hell do i care leave me to the humble life i am trying to build for myself
Final boost - thanks for reading gang
Peter Raleigh@petreraleigh.bsky.social · 3w agoHi folks. For Long Library I wrote about two very different midcentury films in which Spencer Tracy confronts societies cultivating mass amnesia in the wake of war and atrocity. Read it here if you'd like peterraleigh.substack.com/p/nobody-knew
Triumphantly returning from Medbed Hypersleep to cast a vote on the Rural Hospital Abolition Act. That's beautiful.
WKYT@wkyt.com · 3w agoMitch McConnell in a social media post said that he will return to the Senate floor and cast his first vote since his hospitalization in June. See more: https://www.wkyt.com/2026/09/14/mcconnell-confirms-he-will-return-senate-cast-first-vote-since-hospitalization/
Hi folks. For Long Library I wrote about two very different midcentury films in which Spencer Tracy confronts societies cultivating mass amnesia in the wake of war and atrocity. Read it here if you'd like peterraleigh.substack.com/p/nobody-knew
Nobody Knew
Spencer Tracy and Postwar Memory in JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG and BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK
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Hi folks. For Long Library I wrote about two very different midcentury films in which Spencer Tracy confronts societies cultivating mass amnesia in the wake of war and atrocity. Read it here if you'd like peterraleigh.substack.com/p/nobody-knew
Nobody Knew
Spencer Tracy and Postwar Memory in JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG and BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK
peterraleigh.substack.com
Folks, I wrote about Backrooms, which I thought was mostly a failure, and about how it compares to two other works - Silent Hill and Channel Zero - which suggest where it might have gone wrong peterraleigh.substack.com/p/horrors-ha...
Horrors Half-Remembered
Why Backrooms Fails Where Its Forebears Succeeded
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Final boost of the night. Thanks for reading everybody
Peter Raleigh@petreraleigh.bsky.social · 2mo agoFolks, I wrote about Backrooms, which I thought was mostly a failure, and about how it compares to two other works - Silent Hill and Channel Zero - which suggest where it might have gone wrong peterraleigh.substack.com/p/horrors-ha...
i know everyone’s excited and Having A Laff but it’s really funny to post like this on the day it gets confirmed that LeBron will only set foot in the city VIA HELICOPTER on game days and practices
SVU character: I'm NOT gay. I have relationships with women... and SEX with men. Woke Ice T: That's normal. I'm not going to put a label on you right now
Folks, I wrote about Backrooms, which I thought was mostly a failure, and about how it compares to two other works - Silent Hill and Channel Zero - which suggest where it might have gone wrong peterraleigh.substack.com/p/horrors-ha...
Horrors Half-Remembered
Why Backrooms Fails Where Its Forebears Succeeded
peterraleigh.substack.com
Real haters don't leap. They wait and watch. They know the true reasons for hating will be Revealed
Favorite first watches, June 2026 The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles, 1942) Jubal (Daves, 1956) Witchfinder General (Reeves, 1968) Mr. Klein (Losey, 1976) Bullet in the Head (Woo, 1990)
This week, a stone-cold classic: TEXAS CHAIN SAW and daylight horror, Hooper's remorselessness, and Grandpa Sawyer giving undead vibes. www.deadofnightletter.com/texas-forever/ #filmsky #horrorsky
Final evening bump; stay cool out there, everybody
Peter Raleigh@petreraleigh.bsky.social · 3mo agoFolks, for Long Library, I wrote about Ridley Scott's Hannibal, its position in the broader context of Thomas Harris's work, and the pleasures of watching a film that holds us in no higher regard than we deserve. Tap in! peterraleigh.substack.com/p/the-joy-of...
Please help out Alex if you can or share the link around. 2026 has been tough on her & she deserves the world. She is amazingly kind and lovely and brilliant.
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas@horrornonna.com · 3mo agoMy 2026 has been a divorce-shaped Stygian nightmare of housing insecurity, drifting between Airbnbs, couchsurfing + housesitting. But the goddess just blessed me with my own tiny apartment! I need to move/furnish it for myself + kid almost from scratch: a humble call for help if you can to do so!
Folks, for Long Library, I wrote about Ridley Scott's Hannibal, its position in the broader context of Thomas Harris's work, and the pleasures of watching a film that holds us in no higher regard than we deserve. Tap in! peterraleigh.substack.com/p/the-joy-of...
The Joy of Cooking
Ridley Scott's Hannibal
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