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The other four Fighters are relegated to reaction shots that don’t produce any laughs nor add to the impact of the would-be scares. Drummer Taylor Hawkins, who reportedly didn’t bother to learn any of the lines, ironically gives the funniest performance of the lot simply by replaying the same note of weirded-outness at the occult occurrences. Of course, the other five members are great musicians, but their unnatural and unconvincing acting feels like the product of Grohl pushing these guys past their natural abilities. However, the rest of the band clearly doesn’t share his affinity for a life in front of the camera.

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In the aforementioned music videos and numerous TV appearances throughout the years, Grohl has exhibited an endearing charm that has served him even outside the context of Foo Fighters fans. Comedians like Whitney Cummings and Will Forte, the latter as a delivery guy who professes Foo Fighters are his “second-favorite band after Coldplay,” pop up to punch things up, but their effort is sadly in vain. When the band members aren’t exchanging naughty four-letter words, they’re stuck with witless dialogue about subpar grilling techniques or aversions to meditation. Grohl is credited with coming up with the story, obviously conceived during his time recording the real album, but the screenplay by Jeff Buhler and Rebecca Hughes is paper-thin and painfully puerile. Lifting visually from horror classics like The Exorcist and The Omen, and narratively from scores of others, Studio 666 simply doesn’t have enough of its own ideas to justify its existence. Listening to the tracks possesses Grohl, not only figuratively in terms of musical inspiration but also literally, as the music unlocks unholy spirits that turn the frontman demonic. Looking for inspiration, they take Shill’s advice and move into an Encino house where a fictional band, Dream Widow, had almost finished an album of their own before the project ended abruptly by grisly means.Īfter regurgitating riffs from tunes that he’d already written, Grohl accepts that he’s going through a bout of songwriter’s block before happening upon the reels from Dream Widow’s partial recordings in the basement. The story features fictionalized versions of the Fighters, pressured by their manager Jeremy Shill (Jeff Garlin) at the outset to complete new music for their record company. Shot partially during lockdown in the same mansion where the band recorded their 10th album, Medicine at Midnight, it’s a lazy and pointless vanity project that inexplicably crept onto 2,000 screens nationwide this past weekend. The visual companion pieces to songs like “Everlong,” “Learn to Fly,” and “Long Road to Ruin” are spearheaded by the goofy charisma of frontman Dave Grohl, who has no compunction about sporting a wig or fake mustache for yuks.Ĭonjured forth from those comedic impulses comes Studio 666, a horror-comedy that could have worked as a five-minute music video but absolutely flounders as a 106-minute feature.

In addition to selling millions of records and packing stadiums around the world during their more than 25-year career as a band, Foo Fighters have also demonstrated a propensity toward silly music videos.