haunted past

His films like Hereditary and Midsommar viscerally explore how family trauma and psychological wounds haunt characters across generations.

He crafts gothic narratives where characters are spiritually imprisoned by historical violence and personal ghosts, as seen in Pan's Labyrinth and The Shape of Water.

His revenge thrillers like Oldboy and The Handmaiden dissect how the past relentlessly consumes and defines characters trapped in cycles of trauma.