Terror en el Estudio 666

Plot

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.

Cast

The Foo Fighters take the leading roles and are assisted by Jeff Garlin, Leslie "American Horror Story" Grossman, Jenna Ortega, Will Forte, John Carpenter and even features a hilarious cameo from Lionel Richie.

Verdict

I went in with almost no knowledge of the film beyond it being a horror comedy about the Foo Fighters and partially written by Grohl himself. This I find is the best way to be, I hadn't even seen the trailer yet.

The "Foo's" camp it up (More than I could have ever dreamed) in exactly that, a horror comedy with a fairly decent plot and some great deaths (Some of the best I've seen in a while). It was a lot gorier than I expected and plenty of the jokes hit the mark.

Other side of the coin? Plenty of the jokes don't, some of the cgi is really quite naff, the ending was a tired horror trope and the pacing is weird. Because of said pacing in fact the movie is oddly boring at times, like you're watching a Foo Fighters documentary then pow someone gets splattered and suddenly you're reminded this is a horror movie.

When the credits rolled I didn't venture my opinion to the other half as it hadn't formed, I was still a tad confused as to what I'd just watched. When it was bad it was dull, when it was good it was really quite entertaining.

It's an odd little film, perfectly watchable but I'd say if you're not a fan of the Foo Fighters it may not appeal.

Rants

Have Dave Grohl and Jack Black spent too much time together? I swear you could close your eyes and think Black was the lead of the film as their voices are so remarkably similar! And appearance? Is it just me or is Grohl turning into Tom Savini? Especially with a certain appearance change later in the film, I thought I was watching Dusk Till Dawn again.

Breakdown.

Some decent effects Many jokes are fantastic Awesome deaths and gore A Foo Fighters wet dream Some poor effects Many jokes fall flat Oddly boring due to the weird pacing.

Will Forte, funny as a dead baby joke.

Lots of laughs, lots of gore, lots of bad acting, bad editing and direction, but, despite all this, I had a lot of fun watching it.

Grohl is pretty good, the rest of the band, not so much.

To be picky, in a movie that is not meant to be taken too seriously, it is a bit too long and that is not how you wire a car, Pat!!

Came into it expecting exactly what it was - a goofy B-movie with plenty of comical gore, horror tropes, and amusing jokes made at the expense of each band mate. I got all of these, however these moments were far too sporadically spaced throughout the movie, with idle chit-chatting that took the plot nowhere and scenes of the band rehearsing and chilling out, eating etc that were much too leisurely employed and dragged out for what felt like eternities at times.

It's a shame because there were enough quality moments in this to make it a great 70-80 minute movie, but space these out over the course of nearly 2 hours and it's a totally different prospect. The latter part of the film contained at least 3 places where the movie could have ended satisfactorily, only for another rather pointless event or 'twist' to take place to stretch it out another ten minutes.

Overall a slightly missed opportunity, as with tighter editing it could have been a cult classic.

You can tell the Foos love a good laugh. This wasn't so much a horror movie but instead was a series of inside jokes and double entendre. I found myself laughing at the jokes and then ultimately at the silliness. Thanks Dave and the rest of the guys!

By watching the trailer you know what's on offer, so let's not get too serious about this.

It's clearly a fun time with the Foos, nothing else.

The directing and cinematography was mediocre at its best, but I didn't watch this (and enjoy it) because I wanted to watch a cinematic masterpiece, I wanted to watch Dave Grohl and the gang being silly, and damn right I've got a lot of that!

As a surprising plus, I was quite impressed by the super gory deaths, Tom Savini style, fans of his B-Class movies will love this, some Mortal Kombat fatality stuff here!

I thank for the show and the fun, Dave always delivers!

Now I've got to go watch interviews and anecdotes about the making of, which I'm sure will be fun too!