# Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)

> A supernatural curse turns Los Angeles’s profit-driven contemporary art scene into a gallery of grotesque consequences.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/movie/316359

## Facts

- Runtime: 112 min
- Genres: Thriller, Mystery, Horror
- Director: Dan Gilroy
- Cast: Rene Russo, Jake Gyllenhaal, Zawe Ashton, Tom Sturridge, Toni Collette, Natalia Dyer, Daveed Diggs, Billy Magnussen
- TMDB rating: 5.4/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7043012/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: graphic
- Mood: cynical, operatically heightened, darkly comic, halloween night, art house movie night

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