Dave Grohl has directed videos and documentaries, made music for movies and TV, and even worked as an actor. Now, in STUDIO 666, the Foo Fighters frontman becomes a leading man — and he's bringing his whole band along for the ride.

The horror/comedy allows us to observe as the Foo Fighters set up to record a new album in a seemingly haunted mansion. Grohl is possessed by evil, everyone faces horrific dangers, and maybe a great record is written along the way?

Since STUDIO 666 is fiction in which the band members all play "themselves," the movie puts the Foo Fighters in the company of artists like the Beatles, Prince, and the Ramones. We might wonder how Grohl & Co. stand shoulder-to-shoulder with such musical-turned-cinematic greats, but the more important question may be: Will they survive?

So what's STUDIO 666 all about, anyway? The Trailer just above should give you a good idea. It's a familiar story, really: Band rents haunted house, band leader is possessed by evil, everyone dies. Imagine a bizarre and funny intersection of EVIL DEAD 2 and that time when a massively-popular band recorded in a house where horrifying crimes were committed.

(Indeed, the EVIL DEAD link is probably not at all incidental; Grohl and the band riffed on that movie in an early video.)

It's possible to play that scenario as something genuinely dark and disturbing, but that isn't the intention here. STUDIO 666 may be horror, but it's more like a carnival funhouse ride than a grim-n-grisly nightmare. Accordingly, the cast features comedy talents like Whitney Cummings, Will Forte, Jenna Ortega, Leslie Grossman, and Jeff Garlin, in addition to cameos by musical talents such as Lionel Ritchie and Slayer's Kerry King. (We never thought that Lionel and Kerry would ever be billed in the same project.)

STUDIO 666 was actually created in almost total secrecy. The only public awareness of the movie came about when Grohl himself revealed the project. And that was after COVID-19 paused filming for several months in early 2020.

Grohl said, "After decades of ridiculous music videos and numerous music documentaries under our collective belts, it was finally time to take it to the next level… A full-length feature horror-comedy film. Like most things Foo, STUDIO 666 began with a far-fetched idea that blossomed into something bigger than we ever imagined possible."

"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 f***ing ROCKS. Be ready to laugh, scream, and headbang in your popcorn.”

Plenty of musical stars had starred in movies. Christmas crooner Bing Crosby was the biggest musical star and the biggest movie star in the world in the late 1940s, and Elvis made many movies — but they didn't usually play themselves. Then, in A HARD DAY'S NIGHT, the Beatles riffed on Beatlemania and their own image and basically created the template for the rock and roll caper movie.

KISS made a fun horror movie (for television, but still) and the greatest of all indie producers, Roger Corman, put the Ramones at the center of ROCK AND ROLL HIGH SCHOOL. Later, THIS IS SPINAL TAP set up a reversal, where a movie band basically became a real one — and Prince, of course, amplified his own image and fame with PURPLE RAIN.  

And then there's Tenacious D, the musical comedy duo featuring Jack Black. The band was featured in a short-lived HBO series before starring as themselves in TENACIOUS D IN THE PICK OF DESTINY. Tenacious D had become friends with Dave Grohl way back in their early days, and Grohl appeared as Satan in both the music video for "Tribute" and in THE PICK OF DESTINY.

What we're saying is that STUDIO 666 is the latest stop on a long rock and roll journey in which Dave Grohl has always been fated to be possessed by evil. Find out how he gets back to being himself (or if he does!) when the movie opens in theatres.

STUDIO 666 opens on February 25!

All images courtesy of Open Road Films.