IMDb plot summary: Legendary rock band Foo Fighters move into an Encino mansion steeped in grisly rock and roll history to record their much anticipated 10th album.
Directed by BJ McDonnell. Starring Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, and Pat Smear.
Studio 666 is a horror comedy starring the band Foo Fighters, who set up camp in a clearly haunted house to record their newest album. They find the remnants of a short-lived older band's recordings in the basement, and then... things get weirder. This is one of the silliest premises for a movie I've seen in awhile, but I had so much fun with it. None of the band members are great actors but they're all willing to play along, which is all you need for something this over-the-top and campy. The various death scenes are funny and gross and ridiculous and everything I want them to be. The movie moves along at a brisk pace so I hardly ever felt like my time was being wasted (aside from some moments of not-funny banter in the first third, but fortunately that all disappeared as everyone got involved in figuring out the demon possession and the mysterious deaths). It's a thoroughly goofy movie that managed to appeal to me as a non-Foo Fighters fan, and I would hope fans would have a similar amount of fun with it.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Studio 666 > Les Miserables (2012)
Studio 666 < Kuroneko
Studio 666 > The Mauritanian
Studio 666 > The Artist
Studio 666 < Manhattan Murder Mystery
Studio 666 > Leave No Trace
Studio 666 < Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Studio 666 > Cool Runnings
Studio 666 < Fresh (1994)
Studio 666 > Bride & Prejudice
Studio 666 < Point Break
Final spot: #1053 out of 3612, or 71%.
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