Land of the Lustrous, the Queer Body Horror | Video Essay

SPOILERS AHEAD! Body horror has existed for many years now. The portrayal of queer-like characters has for a long time had problematic depictions in horror media. Although it may be a stretch to fully claim the Lustrous as queer, through the politics of subtitles, depictions of body-dysphoria, and the hinting of Lustrous love, it is without a doubt to me the Lustrous are queer-like. Does this depiction of queer-like characters finally build change to the genre as a whole? Or is it more or less the same problems with a different skin? Let me know below! Check out my Patreon to have your name on the end card!   / isitreallythatscary   Bibliography Darwin, Charles, et al. “Mutations and Metamorphoses: Body Horror Is Biological Horror.” Taylor & Francis, www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01956051.2012.654521. Kaiser, Vrai, and Vrai. “Land of the Lustrous, Singular ‘They," and the Politics of Subtitles.” ANIME FEMINIST, 25 Jan. 2020, www.animefeminist.com/feature-land-lustrous-singular-politics-subtitles/. Trans Women in Horror. “Blood, Bodies and Binaries: Trans Women in Horror.” 14 East, 18 Jan. 1970, fourteeneastmag.com/index.php/2019/01/18/blood-bodies-and-binaries-trans-women-in-horror/. Wells, Paul. The Horror Genre: from Beelzebub to Blair Witch. Wallflower, 2007. " Interested in the source material? Purchase Volume 1 of the manga on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/2XtZgZ1 (This is an affiliate link: purchasing from this link helps support the channel)