psychological entrapment

His films like Repulsion and The Tenant obsessively explore claustrophobic mental states and paranoia trapping characters within their own fractured psyches.

Works such as Funny Games and The Seventh Continent examine how societal structures and domestic spaces become psychological prisons that distort human behavior.

His surreal narratives in Mulholland Drive and Eraserhead trap viewers and characters in labyrinths of identity confusion and unconscious desire.