Review of Velvet Buzzsaw (2019) by Cornbread — 23 Feb 2019
This movie had so much potential. I saw the trailer and was immediately drawn to the core premise: old man dies, no one knows him, turns out he’s a prolific master painter...but oh wait he uses blood as pigment. Now that is wonderfully disturbing.
They could have run with that and really dug into this man. Where did he get the blood? Was he a prolific serial killer? Did he leave a trail of murder behind him?
Instead they resorted to a lame supernatural angle. Turns out this dead old guy kills you The Ring style (and a poor interpretation at best) if you own his art. You don’t even get a creepy phone call telling you that you have 7 days.
It’s almost as if the film doesn’t trust the audience to be mature enough to find the “reality” of the situation as interesting and compelling as some fake supernatural crap.
Such a let down.
This review of Velvet Buzzsaw (2019) was written by Cornbread on 23 Feb 2019.
Velvet Buzzsaw has generally received mixed reviews.
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