This week we chat with Dr. Heather Petrocelli, who, in 2019, put out a survey for the LGBTQIA+ community and their thoughts on horror. With the thousands of responses, she turned the survey into her dissertation and is now in the process of turning that into a book called Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator. She is a wealth of knowledge on queer horror and queer spectatorship and brought a whole lot to this discussion. After digging into her horror roots with a one-two punch of horror and queer cinema, we explore her journey from a child to adult and her relationship with horror. Then we discuss her upcoming book, the massive survey and a few things she learned from the thousands of responses. Then we turn our attention to Silkwood (1983), the Meryl Streep, Cher and Kurt Russell-starring biopic of Karen Silkwood who worked at a plutonium plant where she was contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered. We discuss unions, seeing ourselves in cinema, rural poor, capitalism, the Silkwood shower and so much more in this incredible discussion. We could have chatted for hours more. You can follow Dr. Petrocelli on Instagram. You can follow Mary Beth, Terry and the Podcast on Twitter.If you want to support our podcast, please please take a moment to go rate us on Spotify and give us a rating and review on iTunes. It really helps us out with the algorithms. If you want to join our community on Twitter, go here. And, coming soon…a Patreon! Get bonus content on Patreon Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.