Velvet Buzzsaw: Ending Explained

The Deaths

As for the body count, the dead are usually discovered by poor receptionist Coco (Natalia Dyer) long after they've been brutally murdered. We first see handyman Bryson (Billy Magnussen) sucked into a painting full of angry monkeys after he intends to steal some Vetril Dease work for his own, and later Jon Dondon (Tom Sturridge) is hanged in his own exhibition by a mysterious hand after intending to use a private report on Dease's life for his own gain - or his opposition's loss.

Gretchen is then offed after buying and selling Dease's work and using it as a leverage point in her career. Sucked inside 'The Sphere' and losing an arm in the process, her death is definitely the most interesting, and serves as the most 'art' of all when mistaken patrons at the gallery assume her body is part of the exhibition.

Morf and Josephina are consumed by artworks, and finally, Rhodora is sawn open by her own tattoo after ridding her house of every artwork she could find. Last minute laser removal is hard to source, after all. It's these final three kills that prove the most poignant to the movie's themes, dishing out just desserts to the key players that served to make the most from Dease's unwanted legacy and serving as the nasty end to the murderous movie.