supernatural debt

His films explore how past debts and supernatural bargains haunt characters across generations, as seen in Pan's Labyrinth and The Shape of Water.

He examines inherited family trauma and supernatural obligations that bind characters to cycles of debt and ritualistic payment in Hereditary and Midsommar.

Her work interrogates how characters are trapped by supernatural consequences and unseen debts that demand inevitable repayment, particularly in The Invitation and Destroyer.