Studio 666

Official Australian release date: 24/2/22.
Viewed 26/2/22.
Director: BJ McDonnell
Actors: Dave Ghohl, Pat Smear, Nate Mendel, Whitney Cummings
Genre: Horror / Comedy
Rating: R
 

‘Studio 666’ is a Foo Fighters pet project, poking fun at themselves, rockstar excess and horror all in a fun film. The plot is simple – Dave (singer/songwriter), Nate (bass), Chris (guitar), Pat (guitar), Taylor (drums) & Rami (keyboards) are wanting to do something different for their 10^th album, so end up recording in a haunted house. The rest is mostly an ‘Evil Dead’ rip-off!
 
Most of the fun comes from watching the band, who are clearly not actors, have fun with the absurdness/silliness. There are some good cameos from actual actors – Samantha (Cummings) the neighbour, Jeremy (Garlin) the manager and Darren (Forte) the delivery guy. And while it’s semi-funny, it’s definitely very gory and I think the death-count got to 9. Just not sure it needed to be 1 hour 45min – might’ve been a good 30min TV episode.
 
If you’re a Foo fan and appreciate the humour in their video clips, you should enjoy this. Lots of little inside jokes and they play against their nice-guy personas on purpose. Still, they’re definitely not actors! Only one actual Foo Fighters song from ‘Medicine At Midnight’ is used, during the credits – the song they play during the film is actually pretty good, even though it’s in “L” key.
 
Overall: Silly, gory, dumb rock’n’roll.
 
Gav’s Rating: 2.5 stars.