Velvet Buzzsaw2019
“All Art Is Dangerous”
Directed by Dan Gilroy
🏆 1 win & 3 nominations total
The premise
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.
Horror Vault's take
In the cutthroat world of high-end contemporary art, ambition and avarice reign supreme — until a mysterious deceased painter's work surfaces and begins to exact a strange, deadly toll on everyone who touches it for profit. Director Dan Gilroy reunites with Jake Gyllenhaal to skewer the pretensions of the LA art scene with razor-sharp wit and genuine menace. The deeper these collectors, critics, and dealers wade into the work's orbit, the clearer it becomes that some art refuses to be owned. Equal parts biting satire and supernatural horror, it's a film that makes greed look genuinely terrifying.
Content: Graphic Violence, Disturbing Imagery, Some Gore
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