food contamination

His body horror films like 'Shivers' and 'The Fly' obsessively explore contamination, infection, and the breakdown of bodily integrity as visceral psychological terror.

'Snowpiercer' and 'Parasite' use food and contamination as metaphors for class division, systemic corruption, and the inescapability of a poisoned social order.

His transgressive films use bodily fluids, decay, and contamination as aesthetic and philosophical tools to confront viewers with the materiality and fragility of human existence.