A thriller about the contemporary art scene of Los Angeles, where big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce.A thriller about the contemporary art scene of Los Angeles, where big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce.A thriller about the contemporary art scene of Los Angeles, where big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce.
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- 1 win & 3 nominations
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- TriviaLoosely resembles the life of Henry Darger, who too was a recluse that created a prodigious volume of artistic work which was celebrated posthumously, and who also spent some time in an asylum. Darger is largely known as an outsider artist, much as Dease is in the film.
- GoofsIf Dease was committed to a mental institution for pleading insanity in his father's death, he would not be released after his recovery, but retried for his father's death.
- Quotes
Morf Vandewalt: Critique is so limiting and emotionally draining.
- Crazy creditsDuring the first part of the credits, Piers is creating art in the sand.
- ConnectionsFeatured in FoundFlix: Velvet Buzzshaw (2019) Ending Explained (2019)
- SoundtracksFloating Ships
Written by Marc Mifune and Alexandra Stewart
Performed by Les Gordon feat. Aces
Courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment France SAS
By arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment
Featured review
A lot of ideas. No real cohesion.
It's a bit ironic, this film that wants to explore the vapid shallowness of the fine art world in a stylish horror movie setting... ends up inviting the very same criticisms that the finely dressed tastemakers in the film fling about.
Ok. Buzzwords aside. I did enjoy this film more than I disliked it. But in all earnestnest, it was by a hair. Knowing this came from the same guy who made the excellent psochological thriller Nightcrawler. This is like asketchbook of ideas for a giallo-inspired slasher. Each individually awesome. But there's no real throughline to keep us going. People pop up until they die gruesome deaths. It feels kind of slapped together haphazardly.
I expected more from Gilroy
Ok. Buzzwords aside. I did enjoy this film more than I disliked it. But in all earnestnest, it was by a hair. Knowing this came from the same guy who made the excellent psochological thriller Nightcrawler. This is like asketchbook of ideas for a giallo-inspired slasher. Each individually awesome. But there's no real throughline to keep us going. People pop up until they die gruesome deaths. It feels kind of slapped together haphazardly.
I expected more from Gilroy
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- Feb 4, 2019
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- Runtime1 hour 53 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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