medical intervention

His body horror films like 'The Fly' and 'Videodrome' obsessively explore the grotesque intersections of medicine, technology, and human transformation.

Films like 'The Devils' and 'Altered States' viscerally depict medical and psychiatric intervention as invasive, transformative, and psychologically devastating.

His clinical, unflinching examination of suffering and mortality in films like 'Amour' interrogates the ethics and limits of medical care with devastating precision.