{"id":40385,"date":"2024-01-01T02:01:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T07:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=40385"},"modified":"2023-12-03T15:49:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T20:49:02","slug":"studio-666-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/01\/studio-666-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Studio 666 (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I can appreciate what Dave Grohl and BJ McDonnell were going for with \u201cStudio 666.\u201d In spite of me being a big Foo Fighters fan, I respected what they were trying to do. \u201cStudio 666\u201d is a horror comedy musical with shades of \u201cEvil Dead,\u201d \u201cThe Exorcist,\u201d and \u201cWe Are Still Here.\u201d It\u2019s also kind of a commentary on the compromises you make in order to acquire artistic success, but those more dire themes are passive at best. \u201cStudio 666\u201d looks like one of those movies that was more fun to make than anything else, and that\u2019s both a caveat and advantage.<\/p>\n

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Members of the rock band Foo Fighters move into an Encino mansion steeped in grisly rock ‘n’ roll history to record their much anticipated 10th album. Once in the house, Dave Grohl finds himself grappling with supernatural forces that threaten both the completion of the album and the lives of the band members.<\/p>\n

While it is fun to see the Foo Fighters have some fun with their personalities, at the end of the day they are not<\/em><\/strong> actors. Not by a long shot. In either case, while it\u2019s not exactly laugh out loud funny, \u201cStudio 666\u201d meshes horror and rock and roll as well as most movies of this ilk usually do, digging its heels in to the whole trope of Satanism and demons affecting rock music. The band members for the most part play versions of themselves who are struggling to make the newest big hit at the pressure of their managers. Picking up the slack in the comedy and acting department, there\u2019s Jeff Garlin who appears as their manager, Whitney Cummings who is charming as a snoopy neighbor who may or may not know what\u2019s happening in their mansion.<\/p>\n

Also, Will Forte also plays an obnoxious pizza delivery guy, while Jenna Ortega offers a brief, effective appearance. There is also a fun albeit odd appearance by Lionel Ritchie. It\u2019s completely inexplicable and random, but again, I appreciated what they were trying. Grohl and his fellow band mates have an obvious love for horror, so the movie just never shies away from the sticky red stuff. There are so many great moments of grue, gore, splatter, dismemberment, vomit, and eye gougings, all for the gore hounds. Even if you can\u2019t quite ignore the stilted performances from the band, there\u2019s at least the gore.<\/p>\n

I enjoyed the barbecue death, as well as the chainsaw attack mid-coitus. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019d recommend \u201cStudio 666\u201d as it\u2019s a very niche horror film, more suited to Foo Fighters fanatics. But when all was said and done, it amounts to a solid comic horror splatterfest with its heart in the right place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can appreciate what Dave Grohl and BJ McDonnell were going for with \u201cStudio 666.\u201d In spite of me being a big Foo Fighters fan, I respected what they were trying to do. \u201cStudio 666\u201d is a horror comedy musical with shades of \u201cEvil Dead,\u201d \u201cThe Exorcist,\u201d and \u201cWe Are Still Here.\u201d It\u2019s also kind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1572],"tags":[219,276,477,698,703,766,793,1008],"class_list":["post-40385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","category-rockandrollny","tag-comedy","tag-demons","tag-horror","tag-music","tag-mystery","tag-performance","tag-possession","tag-supernatural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40387,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40385\/revisions\/40387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}