Episode 149: Animator Cressa Maeve Beer and Day of the Dead (1985)

This week we chat with animator, director and writer Cressa Maeve Beer! She's the animator behind iconic stop motion shorts like "Coming Out" and "Me and the Matrix" and we talk about her relationship to horror, how she got into animation, her love of Ray Harryhausen's stop motion work, working on big movies and so much more. Then we turn to arguably the most depressing movie about zombies, George Romero's Day of the Dead. Our conversation runs the gamut from the gore, to the puppetry, the deep sense of nihilism, connections to today, unlikable characters and, finally, a talking zombie named Bub.

We also ended up going on a tangent about the Alien franchise so if you want to read Cressa's article about body horror and growing up trans, go here. If you want to see what Mary Beth has to say about Alien Resurrection, go here. And if you want to read Terry's article about Alien 3 as an AIDS metaphor, go here.

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