Studio 666 (2022) makes Foo into goo. Nailed it.

The person beside me in a seat I purposefully kept empty when making my reservation leaned over and said, "If you're alone too, we can share my popcorn." That about sums up my time with Studio 666, the new horror film starring the Foo Fighters. A little creepy, kinda funny, and full of "Who let these maniacs into the theater?"

     The Foo Fighters are all front and center in this grindhouse-style horror flick. This is not Phil Collins popping up in Hook or that weird celebrity cameo by Dave Grohl in Bill and Ted Face the Music or whoever played the devil in Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny. The FF need a tenth album, so they move into an abandoned broken down death mansion. Soon, lead singer Dave is possessed and killing e'erybody in the house. Full of self-aware laughs and plenty of gore, Studio 666 is not a good movie but it is damn fun.

     Oh, and I am not gonna talk about the acting. These guys are hams, so they go big, go home, and turn their backs to the camera and say the lines months later in a booth. Looking at you, Pat Smear, you beautiful devil.

     What I will talk about is how you should get your friends and hang the fuck out with this movie. In the great grindhouse tradition, Studio 666 knows it has no money, no pride, and no real moral or belief structure. What it does have is a cast up for anything, a few dozen buckets of blood, and a chainsaw. That's more than enough for a good time.

     The script knows who its stars are. Multiple times the Foo Dogs do a "Pearl Jam high-five" to celebrate themselves. Although none of the band drinks on screen excessively, cans and bottles litter the house, calling out the rockstar lifestyle without mentioning it. The cast and crew fill the screen with so many "hey, what if we made fun of ourselves this way" that at no point do you believe Dave killed all his friends and that this is just a movie. Right? 

     The kills, though. Chef's kiss. Oh do the Foo gang get murdered. Nothing is invented whole cloth, but the use of chainsaws, knives, car tires, cymbals, and barbeque grills is inspiring. Does any of it make sense? Who gives a fuck. Put Dave up there with the likes of Jason and Freddy and sit the fuck down.

     So who should see this movie? I do not care. The movie does not seem to care. The creepy, lonely lady beside me with tasty popcorn did not care. Anyone who has to ask if they want to see Studio 666 has already forgotten the faces of their Foo Fighter brethren and should just watch Cyrano or some other sappy sad bastard shit. Some of us want to have fun.