plague and death

His masterpiece 'The Seventh Seal' is the definitive cinematic meditation on mortality and death, featuring the iconic chess match with Death itself.

His body horror films like 'The Fly' and 'Videodrome' viscerally explore disease, bodily decay, and mortality through grotesque transformation.

Films like 'Dancer in the Dark' and 'Melancholia' obsessively confront themes of suffering, plague-like despair, and existential dread.