The Foo Fighters are one of the most successful rock bands working today, having sold millions of albums across multiple decades. Their latest endeavor? Entering the realm of horror movies with Studio 666, a very real genre effort that sees Dave Grohl and the gang contending with the supernatural, all while playing fictionalized versions of themselves. Today brings a brand new red band trailer for the film just ahead of its release next weekend, and, safe to say, this is NSFW. So throw on those headphones at your desk or wait to watch this one from the comfort of home.
Grohl and the band personally provide an intro for the trailer, complete with F-bombs and plenty of blood, earning the R-rating right from the get-go. We get a pretty strong sense of what’s at play here, with a whole bunch of supernatural happenings taking place at the house where the band is recording its next album. Grohl gets possessed, bodies start piling up, and lots of blood is spilled along the way. It certainly seems to be delivering on the promise of rock stars appearing in a horror movie, that much is certain. The synopsis for the film reads as follows:
“In Studio 666, the legendary rock band Foo Fighters move into an Encino mansion steeped in grisly rock and 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.”
The cast includes bandmates Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Pat Smear, Chris Shiflett, and Rami Jaffee, with Whitney Cummings (2 Broke Girls), Leslie Grossman (American Horror Story), Will Forte (The Last Man On Earth), Jenna Ortega (Scream, X) and Jeff Garlin (The Goldbergs) also along for the ride. Ortega, in particular, is having quite the year in horror, having appeared in the new Scream in addition to Ti West’s upcoming X. Let us not forget that she appears on the cover of the April 2022 issue of Fangoria!
BJ McDonnell of Hatchet III fame is in the director’s chair for this one. Jeff Buhler and Rebecca Hughes penned the screenplay working from a story cooked up by Grohl. What is particularly interesting is that the movie isn’t just getting dumped to VOD or a streaming service. Instead, it is getting a very wide, exclusive theatrical release in more than 2,000 theaters from the folks at Open Road Films. This to say, it’s not some cute ploy, this is the real deal, and everyone involved is taking it seriously, while not sucking the fun out of it.
Studio 666 opens in theaters on February 25.
