History Film / VelvetBuzzsaw

* TragicVillain: Dease is the source of the murderous force infesting the paintings and he personally [[spoiler:killed at least two people while he was alive]], but his childhood was atrocious and he spent several years as a prisoner in a mental institution that inflicted horrific medical experiments on him and his fellow patients. He also spent the last years of his life trying to [[spoiler:destroy his malefic masterpieces]].

* TragicVillain: Dease is the source of the murderous force infesting the paintings and he personally [[spoiler:killed at least two people while he was alive]], but his childhood was atrocious and he spent several years as a prisoner in a mental institution that inflicted horrific medical experiments on him and his fellow patients.

* WishFulfillmnet: One of the earlier Dease paintings shown tragically depicts a little boy successfully (and imporbably) overpowering an abusive father to protect his sister, a piece clearly inspired by his own abusive upbringing.

* TookALevelInJerkass: The success and fame that selling Dease's art grants her, causes the once earnest and sympathetic Josephina to become increasingly shallow and cruel.

Set in the UsefulNotes/{{Miami}} art scene, a gallery owned by former rock star Rhodora Haze (Creator/ReneRusso) is rocked by the discovery of a reclusive artist's incredible work, following his death under mysterious circumstances.

* FinalGirl: [[spoiler:Coco, who seems like a decent person, is the only character directly involved in the plot who makes it out alive]]. Lightly Inverted with [[spoiler: Piers, a more elderly artist who is somewhat involved with the plot at the start of thr film.]]

* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding: Kinda. Half of the characters are killed off over their greed and desire of popularity, with the exception being Peirs and Coco, who survived by sheer luck and Damrish himself only survives due to the fact he returns back to making art ''for the art'' instead of just about the money. The downside however is that homeless people steal Dease's art thanks to Morf leaving it outside the storage facility and they begin to sell it for cheap.]]

* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding: Kinda. Half of the characters are killed off over their greed and desire of popularity, with the exception being Peirs and Coco, who survived by sheer luck and Damrish himself only survives due to the fact he returns back to making art ''for the art'' instead of just about the money.]]

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted. [[spoiler:Bryson is the first person to be killed, while Josephina is one of the last, and Damrish makes it out alive altogether]].

* NeckSnap: [[spoiler:Morf is killed in this way by the ''Hoboman'' a robotic sculpture]].

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* AssholeVictim: Pretty much everybody who's killed by the art; see the KarmicDeath entry below.

* ChekhovsGun: When Rhodora first begins believimg in the curse in spite of herself she looks closely and suspiciously at a charcoal piece of a woman sitting on the ground with an animal beside them and two human shadows approaching. [[spoiler: After removing the art from her house, she unintentionally recreates the scene, signifying she's not safe just before her own buzzsaw tattoo drills into her neck.]]

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Josephina is lured into a graffiti exhibit that forms from out of nowhere. When she walks in and is distracted by her phone, the graffiti paint melts off the walls and covers her, melding her into the street art once its done.

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:The bloody deaths of Gretchen and Rhodora]].

* FinalGirl: [[spoiler:Coco, who seems like a decent person, is the only character directly involved in the plot who makes it out alive]].

* NeckSnap: [[spoiler:Morf is killed in this way by the ''Hoboman'']].

* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Sure, Gretchen. Stick your HandInTheHole of the huge, ominous, metallic sphere when no one else is around, something could malfunction with the art piece and you could easily get trapped there all night even ''without'' the murderous art demon.]] [[AnArmAndALeg What could go wrong?]]]]

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Many of the character's names are as over-the-top and pretentious as the people they belong to (Jon Dondon, Vetril Dease, Rhodora Haze). Main character '''Morf Vandewalt''' straddles the border between this and AtrociousAlias.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Many of the character's names are as over-the-top and pretentious as the people they belong to (Jon Dondon, Coco, Rhodora Haze). Main character '''Morf Vandewalt''' straddles the border between this and AtrociousAlias.

** ButNotTooBi: However, Morf's relationship with Josephina gets more emphasis, and he [[OffscreenBreakup breaks up with Ed offscreen]].

When Rhodora decides to display and sell the artist's work posthumously, however, she and various members of her social circle find themselves terrorized by the very art their lives are dependent on. Creator/JakeGyllenhaal, Creator/ToniCollette, Zawe Ashton, Tom Sturridge, Billy Magnussen, Daveed Diggs, Natalia Dyer, and Creator/JohnMalkovich also star.