Maybe the Foo Fighters should re-name the band ‘BOO Fighters‘ on the heels of the announcement they’re going to make their feature film debut in a new horror/comedy called ‘Studio 666’.
The Foo’s new film was inspired by the making of their latest album, Medicine at Midnight.
Frontman Dave Grohl said in an official statement:
“Filmed at the same house where we recorded our latest album Medicine at Midnight (told you that place was haunted!) we wanted to recapture the classic magic that all of our favorite rock and roll movies had, but with a twist: hilarious gore that fucking rocks. And now, with the help of Tom Ortenberg and the team at Open Road Films we can finally let this cat out of the bag after keeping it our best kept secret for two years. Be ready to laugh, scream, and headbang in your popcorn. Studio 666 will fuck you up.”
Grohl even went on to tell a twisted tale to NME of terrorized tuning that took place in the house.
“We would come back to the studio the next day and all of the guitars would be detuned. Or the setting we’d put on the [mixing] board, all of them had gone back to zero. We would open up a Pro Tools session and tracks would be missing. There were some tracks that were put on there that we didn’t put on there. But just like weird open mic noises. Nobody playing an instrument or anything like that, just an open mic recording a room.”
Along with Foo Fighters members Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Pat Smear, Chris Shiflett, and Rami Jaffee, Studio 666 also stars Whitney Cummings, Leslie Grossman, Will Forte, Jenna Ortega, and Jeff Garlin.
The film was written by Jeff Buhler (Pet Sematary) and Rebecca Hughes and is directed by BJ McDonnell.
Studio 666 will be released in over 2,000 theaters across the U.S. on February 25th, 2022.
