A rock band chasing a tenth album gets more than writer's block once they set up in a haunted Encino mansion in Studio 666, the 2022 horror comedy starring Foo Fighters as themselves.
What is Studio 666 about?
Foo Fighters move into a sprawling Encino house with a violent history behind its walls, hoping the change of scenery will finally break loose the songs for their long-awaited tenth record. Dave Grohl throws himself into the sessions, but the house has other plans, and forces buried in its past start working their way into his head and into the band's dynamic. What begins as a straightforward recording trip curdles into something the group can't simply pack up and leave, with the album itself becoming tangled up in whatever the mansion is trying to finish. The film plays the premise for both scares and laughs, treating a band's studio grind as fertile ground for a haunted-house story rather than a straight drama.
About the cast
Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Pat Smear, Chris Shiflett and Rami Jaffee play fictionalized versions of themselves as Foo Fighters, with Whitney Cummings and Leslie Grossman rounding out the supporting cast.
Context & significance
Studio 666 grew out of Foo Fighters' own history of turning album-making into a spectacle, and it leans into horror-comedy rather than treating the band's real-life reputation with any reverence. Director B. J. McDonnell, who came up through the horror genre before this project, builds the mansion into a character of its own, and the film's music-scene setting lets it needle both haunted-house conventions and rock-documentary tropes at the same time.
Watching Studio 666 on Ktime
Studio 666 streams on K-Time behind a free account login, with the film's page itself readable without any sign-in at all. K-Time is built around a Farsi-first interface for Persian-speaking audiences abroad, so titles like this one sit inside a catalog shaped for the diaspora's viewing habits even when the film itself carries no Persian dub or subtitle track.