Studio 666 - The Foo Fighters (Movie, Not a Documentary)

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, 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.

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.
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Plot:
In 1993 Encino, Skye Willow, the lead singer of the rock band Dream Widow, is crawling along the floor with a broken leg, followed closely by the 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 hangs himself from a window.

In 2019, the Foo Fighters are hired by their manager Jeremy Shill to create their tenth album as a way to raise money for him to pay off his debts. The group moves into the mansion where frontman Dave Grohl becomes fascinated with the house as a source of inspiration.

Grohl and his fellow bandmates warm to the mansion, but Grohl is facing writer's block. 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 the deceased frontman 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 guitarist Chris Shiflett is cooking on the grill, the same figure pushes his face onto it. As Chris attempts to escape, 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 the corpse of Darren, but Grohl convinces them not to call the police and takes their phones. After watching Grohl eat Chris, the band members 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 Rami 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. Drummer Taylor Hawkins is pressured by Grohl to finish the song while Nate Mendel and Pat Smear retrieve the book from the basement. Taylor finishes the song and is partially decapitated by Grohl with a cymbal.

The two are successful in freeing Grohl from the possession and the souls of the deceased Dream Widow band members send the demon to Hell. However, Jeremy and real estate developer Barb Weems ambush the remaining members, revealing that they planned the whole thing. While Smear is fixing a car from underneath, Mendel is stabbed in the eye, causing him to accidentally hit the gas, which runs over Smear's head and runs over Barb. As Mendel gets out of the car to help Barb, she stabs him through the chin and dies alongside him. Grohl battles Jeremy only to back down in horror when Jeremy tells him of the album's success and the start of his solo career.

One year later, Grohl, the only Foo Fighter left, prepares for his first performance as a solo artist. The film ends as he shows signs of demonic possession.
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Cast
Foo Fighters:
Dave Grohl – lead vocals, guitar
Taylor Hawkins – drums / RIP
Nate Mendel – bass guitar
Pat Smear – guitar
Chris Shiflett – guitar
Rami Jaffee – keyboards, piano

Others:
Whitney Cummings as Samantha
Will Forte as Restaurant Delivery Guy (Darren Sandelbaum)
Jeff Garlin as Jeremy Shill
Leslie Grossman as Barb Weems
Kerry King as Krug
Jenna Ortega as Skye Willow
Marti Matulis as "The Caretaker"
Lionel Richie as himself
Jason Trost as Tech
Jimmi Simpson as Venue person
John Carpenter as Studio engineer
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Production

Writer and lead actor Dave Grohl
In November 2021, it was reported that a film starring the Foo Fighters entitled Studio 666 was shot in secret. The band will star alongside Whitney Cummings, Leslie Grossman, Will Forte, Jenna Ortega, and Jeff Garlin. John Ramsey and James A. Rota produced the film, while the bandmates served as executive producers. Hatchet III filmmaker BJ McDonell directed the film, working from a script written by Jeff Buhler and Rebecca Hughes, based on a story from Dave Grohl inspired by their experiences recording their tenth album.[citation needed]

Filming took place in the same house the band recorded their album Medicine at Midnight. Nearing the end of filming in early 2020, production was shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Production resumed in Los Angeles months later, becoming one of the first films to do so during the pandemic. Six days of filming were planned to finish the film, but it would ultimately span three weeks due to the regulations put in place to film safely.

According to Grohl, the band recorded a whole album for the in-movie fictional band Dream Widow.[6] The album was released on March 25, 2022.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_666