ghost protagonist

His films like 'The Shape of Water' and 'Pan's Labyrinth' feature protagonists who are spectral, otherworldly, or existing between worlds, exploring isolation and displacement through supernatural lenses.

In 'After Life' and 'The Third Person,' he explores characters trapped in liminal spaces between existence and non-existence, examining memory and consciousness with poetic sensitivity.

His films like 'Hereditary' and 'Midsommar' feature protagonists haunted and consumed by supernatural/psychological forces that render them ghostlike in their own narratives, trapped by fate and tragedy.