Studio 666 Movie Storyline. In 1993 Encino, Skye Willow, drummer of the rock band Dream Widow, is crawling along the floor with a broken leg, followed closely by band’s frontman, Greg Nole, who is holding a hammer. Skye sees the body of another band member, who has had his jaw broken by Greg, before Greg drives the hammer through her forehead and repeatedly hits her head with it, crushing her skull. Greg then hangs himself from a window.
In 2019, the Foo Fighters – Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Rami Jaffee, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett, and Pat Smear – are pressured by their manager Jeremy Shill to overcome their writer’s block and record a new album. The group move into the mansion, where Grohl becomes fascinated with the house as a source of inspiration. One of their tech helps, Krug, is electrocuted by a wire and the band decides to dedicate their album to him.
Grohl finds a basement containing satanic objects and is possessed by Nole’s demonic soul after listening to a demo tape. Under the demon’s control, Grohl forces the band to continue production on the album. Later, a delivery man named Darren, who had earlier tried to give Grohl a demo tape, is decapitated outside the manor by an unknown figure with hedge clippers. The next day, as Shiflett is cooking on the grill, the same figure pushes his face onto it. Shiflett attempts to escape but he has his head smashed with the grill cover and is stabbed repeatedly in the neck, before the figure is revealed to be Grohl.
The band later finds Darren’s corpse, but Grohl convinces them not to call the police and takes their phones. After watching Grohl eating Shiflett’s remains, the band soon learn of the mansion’s backstory and Grohl’s possession with the help of a neighbor, Samantha. To exorcise Grohl, they need to find a book needed to free him of the possession. As Samantha and Jaffee have sex, they are both killed when Grohl sneaks under the bed and drives a chainsaw through their heads, before cutting them in half. Hawkins is pressured by Grohl to finish the song while Mendel and Smear retrieve the book from the basement. Hawkins finishes the song and is partially decapitated by Grohl with a cymbal.
Studio 666 is a 2022 American comedy horror film directed by BJ McDonnell and written by Jeff Buhler and Rebecca Hughes, based on a story from Dave Grohl. Grohl stars, alongside his Foo Fighters bandmates Taylor Hawkins (in his final film appearance), Nate Mendel, Pat Smear, Chris Shiflett and Rami Jaffee. Whitney Cummings, Leslie Grossman, Will Forte, Jenna Ortega and Jeff Garlin co-star for the ensemble cast. In the film, the Foo Fighters move into a mansion to write and record a new album, only to find that the house is cursed.
Studio 666 is the first non-documentary film to feature the Foo Fighters; the band was previously the subject of Foo Fighters: Back and Forth (2011) and Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways (2014). The film was released in the United States on February 25, 2022, by Open Road Films, and received mixed reviews.
Studio 666 (2022)
Directed by: B. J. McDonnell
Starring: Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Pat Smear, Chris Shiflett, Rami Jaffe, Whitney Cummings, Leslie Grossman, Will Forte, Jenna Ortega, Jeff Garlin
Screenplay by: Jeff Buhler, Rebecca Hughes
Production Design by: Michael Barton
Cinematography by: Michael Dallatorre, Eric Leach
Costume Design by: Sarah de Sa Rego
Set Decoration by: Elise Hannaford
MPAA Rating: R for strong bloody violence and gore, pervasive language, and sexual content.
Distributed by: Open Road Films
Release Date: February 25, 2022 (United States)
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