In Miami, art critic Morf Vandewalt attends an art exhibition alongside his friend Josephina, who works for Rhodora Haze, owner of the Haze Gallery and formerly a member of the punk rock band Velvet Buzzsaw. Unfulfilled in his love life with his boyfriend Ed, Morf starts a sexual relationship with Josephina.
Returning to Los Angeles, Josephina finds a dead man named Vetril Dease in her apartment building and enters his home to discover a myriad of paintings, some of which are partially destroyed. Josephina steals the paintings to show Morf and Rhodora, who become fascinated with Dease.
Rhodora decides to exhibit several of Dease’s pieces in her gallery to great success. The artworks also enchant Gretchen, Morf’s art curator friend; Piers, a former artist for the Haze Gallery; and Damrish, an up-and-coming artist.
To ensure the rarity of the paintings, Rhodora orders gallery worker Bryson to transport half of them to storage. En route, a painting catches fire from his cigarette ash and burns him, causing him to crash into a seemingly abandoned gas station. After he heads inside to clean the burns, Bryson is dragged into a painting by a group of monkey mechanics.
Researching Dease, Morf discovers he suffered from an abusive childhood that culminated in the murder of his father, after which he was sent to a psychiatric hospital for human experimentation, adding to his mental illness. Jon Dondon, a rival art gallery owner, hires a private investigator to uncover the same story.
Morf sees a hand in a Dease painting suddenly move; his vision is cleared by his optometrist but he continues to hallucinate. That night, he visits the gallery archivist and learns Dease used blood to make his red-black paints. Rhodora, disappointed with Piers’ most recent work, sends him to live at her beach house and not return until he has made art only for himself.
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Gretchen negotiates the display of some Dease paintings in the city’s museum alongside an interactive piece titled Sphere, which is owned by Gretchen’s primary client. Meanwhile, Gretchen also sabotages Josephina’s relationship with Morf by telling her he still has feelings for Ed.
Morf’s visions worsen, and he urges Rhodora to stop selling Dease’s artwork. She ignores him and tries to sell them off as fast as she can for tens of millions of dollars. Morf hires Coco to dispose of the artworks. At a dive bar, Damrish informs Josephina he will not display his art with Haze Gallery, and they break up.
The next morning, Coco finds Morf’s body while Josephina’s terrified image is seen on a wall of graffiti. Rhodora, now believing the deaths are connected to Dease, has all the artwork in her house removed. As she sits outside her house, the buzz saw tattoo on her neck begins spinning and slashes her flesh, killing her.
As the events unfold in this supernatural thriller, the intensity of the story grips you to the core. Don’t miss out on the mystery and horror that Velvet Buzzsaw has to offer. Watch the full movie now and experience the chilling tale of art and its deadly consequences.