Patron Saint Buffalo Bill aims to reclaim the the violent images of transfemininity created by The Silence of the Lambs’ central antagonist, Buffalo Bill, transforming them into a manifestation of Transsexual Monstrosity (a la Susan Stryker). The film starts with a pastiche of Silence’s infamous “Goodbye Horses” scene, with the filmmaker placed into the role of Buffalo Bill. This recreation then slips into a lush, dreamlike space in which a metamorphosis of both the image and the body can occur, intertwining and unifying with one another through mutual dissolution. Finally, from this cocoon emerges a new transsexual form, ready to claim the power of monstrosity to bring about a broader transformation of our gendered existence.