ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the figure of the monster within recent Mexican SF cinema, based on two key concepts: “transfeminism” and “endriago subject.” These concepts stem from the recent theories of “gore capitalism” by Mexican philosopher Sayak Valencia. The first part analyzes the classic Hollywood narrative of the monster, zoomorphically represented in hundreds of class B movies, as a symbol of the abject “otherness”; the monster kidnaps and rapes white women—the great object of desire in Western society. This product of the collective imagination is deconstructed from the transfeminist perspective, recognizing in the libidinal energy of this trans-species encounter the empowerment of an eros that escapes heteronormativity. On the other hand, the “endriago subject”—half dragon and half man beast—is the owner of the territories controlled by the Necropower and the drug cartels in Mexico. An ominous, bloodthirsty and feminicidal monster runs through the narcotopias reviewed in the second part of this article.
