grave robbing

His films like 'Amores Perros' and 'Babel' excavate buried traumas and unearth the consequences of past actions that haunt characters.

His horror films 'Hereditary' and 'Midsommar' literally and metaphorically dig into family secrets, ancestral curses, and the disturbance of the dead.

Her work explores the exhumation of painful pasts and buried violence, particularly in films like 'The Invitation' and 'Destroyer' where characters confront destructive histories.