Tracing the thread…
His body horror films explore how objects and technology become grotesquely intertwined with flesh, transforming the everyday into the profoundly cursed.
Ari Aster United StatesHis films like Hereditary and Midsommar weaponize objects and artifacts as vessels of generational trauma and supernatural dread that consume families.
Takashi Miike JapanHis visceral horror works systematically examine how inanimate objects—from videotapes to dolls—become conduits of curse, possession, and karmic punishment.