medium anxiety

His meticulous control and exploration of obsession, paranoia, and psychological unease in films like *Zodiac* and *Gone Girl* create a sustained state of medium-level tension that never fully resolves.

His deadpan surrealism and exploration of social discomfort in *The Killing of a Sacred Deer* and *The Favourite* maintains an unsettling, off-kilter anxiety throughout.

His films like *Midsommar* and *Hereditary* sustain creeping dread and interpersonal tension that builds gradually rather than exploding into pure horror.