2019 · thriller · mystery · horror
Velvet Buzzsaw
Directed by Dan Gilroy1h 52m2019
Big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce. After a series of paintings by an unknown artist are discovered, a supernatural force enacts revenge on those who have allowed their greed to get in the way of art.
Our read: Velvet Buzzsaw (2019) reads as a sombre, kinetic, surreal thriller · mystery · horror entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / mystery, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
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“You want LA art-world satire turning into supernatural revenge horror.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if pretentious gallery culture and grotesque death scenes feel too acidic.
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