fear of death

His masterpiece 'The Seventh Seal' directly confronts mortality through a knight's chess game with Death itself, while exploring existential dread throughout his oeuvre.

Films like 'After Life' and 'Broker' tenderly examine death's inevitability and what we leave behind, treating mortality with poetic compassion.

His body horror films grotesquely visualize the decay and vulnerability of the physical form, making death's approach viscerally tangible and inescapable.