vengeance bred through parentage

His films explore how familial trauma and parental legacy manifest as cycles of suffering and vengeance across generations, most explicitly in Hereditary.

She examines how parental absence, betrayal, and inherited pain drive protagonists toward violent retribution, as seen in The Invitation and Destroyer.

Her work interrogates how childhood trauma and parental failures shape children into instruments of rage and vengeance, particularly in You Were Never Really Here and We Need to Talk About Kevin.