I’m not the biggest Foo Fighters fan but I like their music well enough and I like Dave Grohl’s good guy vibe in general. So I really wanted to like this film… I was rooting for it as a big ol’ goof on rock ‘n roll and the Satanism schtick. But just because you’re playing yourself in a film and having fun doesn’t mean it’s automatically good.

Studio 666 stars all the Foo Fighters playing themselves as they get together in a run down mansion to record their 10th album. But Grohl is musically constipated and can’t come up with new tunes… until he gets an assist from shadowy demons and slowly succumbs to their cannibalistic barbecue ways.

Great idea for a rock band who wants to make a fun B genre pick, no doubt about it. I’m sure they were having the time of their lives recreating a big ol rock horror movie. They probably grew up with 80s splatter flicks and were geeked to make one. I respect them their effort.

They aren’t bad actors… though sometimes they overplay things. But that’s hardly their fault… as actors they make great rockers. So I’ll give them a pass for whatever limits their acting chops may have.

The film is delightfully gory at times… it knows what genre it is and wants us to cringe and giggle in delight over the kills. And, sure, that works sometimes.

But really the problem is that the movie just gets repetitive. Sure is funny that Dave Grohl is possessed and wants to make an endless song. Sure is funny he wants to eat Will Forte, with or without ranch dressing. Sure does seem to really spin its wheels when it would have been a lot more fun with twenty or even thirty minutes cut out.

I suppose if you are a Foo Fighters superfan and want to watch them jam out a bit on screen while goofing off in the world’s longest video, you might dig it more than me. I laughed enough and appreciated the attempt, I just didn’t enjoy the experience as much as I wanted to. I grew bored and I’m kind of sad about that.

Score: 70