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Studio 666
While I'm writing this
post, a documentary about grunge is playing on TV. Considering that two
of its protagonists were a mile stones in that period, and given my
fondness for films involving bands/musicians, I can say I'm in a good
mood. And that I'll forgive a few basic errors in this 2022 film. Know
this.
So, those wacky Foo Fighters jump into the cinema with a horror comedy
as wild in parts as some of their best and best known songs. It must
also be said, however, that there is a bit of melancholy because we see
the late Taylor Hawkins.
Apart from that, here we find a lot of self-mockery, a lot of blood and
a lot of inspiration taken from horror films, b movies and I would say,
above all, slashers.
Good old Dave Grohl (one of the two I mentioned at the beginning and I
think it goes without saying more), besides being the main character
puts his signature on the screenplay with Jeff Buhler and Rebecca
Hughes. Directing is BJ McDonnel, director of Hachet III and several
Slayer music videos.
The idea for Studio 666 was born in 2019. The Foo Fighters rent a big
house in Encino to record the album 'Medicine at Midnight'. However,
something goes wrong, strange events occur and the guitars go out of
tune. This leads the band to think that the house is cursed and above
all haunted.
We move to the time of the pandemic and find them there, in the
same house, while they secretly shoot this film, which is also a satire
on the creative dynamics of bands and the music industry. See the
ruthless, money-hungry managers.
2019, the Foo Fighters are in the midst of an artistic crisis. Dave
Grohl can no longer write anything convincing. And so under pressure
from their manager, the band retreats to a villa in Encino, where in
1993 a member of a then famous band killed all his bandmates.
The place immediately has the classic eerie connotations and an
accident takes out one of the roadies played by Slayer guitarist Kerry
King. Everyone is scared and wants to leave but Dave Grohl suffers a
kind of fascination that leads him to convince the others to stay and
above all he manages to write convincing songs again. Of course, one by
one the band members come to a bad end, killed, chopped up and whatnot.
A fair price to pay for a good record, no?
Everything is exaggerated and deliberately insane in Studio 666, which,
amidst quotations and important appearances, Jenna Ortega, John
Carpenter (also co-author of the music for the opening credits) and an
extraordinary Lionel Richie, does its duty. Or to put it in a rock way:
his 'fucking' duty.
For the rest, Grohl is good and capable, as are his partners, with a
predilection for Pat Smear (the other one I mentioned at the
beginning). Perhaps they could have exaggerated even more, given us
more, but even so Studio 666 is a good rock film.