6.1 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
Legendary rock band Foo Fighters move into an Encino mansion steeped in grisly rock and roll history to record their much anticipated 10th album.
Starring: Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, Pat Smear, Taylor Hawkins, Chris ShiflettHorror | 100% |
Music | 7% |
Comedy | 6% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.35:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English SDH, Spanish
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Digital copy
Slipcover in original pressing
Region A (B, C untested)
Movie | 4.0 | |
Video | 3.5 | |
Audio | 4.5 | |
Extras | 1.0 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
Leave it to a rock band to make the most entertaining horror comedy in recent memory. Foo Fighters have been around in one form or another for nearly 30 years, but there’s something about a pandemic that inspires strange ideas. For frontman Dave Grohl, the downtime presented a chance to develop an idea for a demonic possession story, with screenwriters Jeff Buhler and Rebecca Hughes hired to flesh out the concept of a band experiencing a developing nightmare while attempting to record their latest album inside a haunted house. There’s a single setting but lots of ideas for bodily harm in “Studio 666,” which updates the concept of a “band movie” for genre fans, asking members of Foo Fighters to play slightly cartoonish versions of themselves while the tale delivers blasts of ultraviolence and moments of silliness. “Studio 666” is tremendous fun, and while it’s aimed at the fanbase, there are gore zone delights for all.
The AVC encoded image (2.39:1 aspect ratio) presentation for "Studio 666" delivers on textures, with gore zone visits vividly detailed, showcasing shredded, sliced, and burned bodies. Facial particulars emerge with decent sharpness, along with house tours, exploring decorative additions and demonic areas. Exteriors are dimensional. Colors are satisfactory, offering natural skintones and distinct primaries on costuming and greenery. Blood red is expectedly pronounced. Delineation remains intact, often dealing with very dark scenes. Encoding isn't always as tight as it could be, encountering some slight blockiness, and very mild banding is detected.
The 7.1 DTS-HD MA mix delivers crisp dialogue exchanges, tracking muttered joking and escalations of panic. Music is obviously the big draw here, and the soundtrack delivers a full sense of metal edge, with sharp instrumentation and a circular presence, and low-end does well with harder beats. Scoring cues are clean, bringing a spookier synth and piano sound to the movie. More active are demonic happenings, presenting immersive separation effects and active sound effects.
There are a few issues in "Studio 666" that keep it from reaching its full potential, finding pacing a little off, with an excessive run time dragging out a simple story of hellraising. The band is here to have fun with everything, and the feeling is infectious, keeping the feature quite amusing, while horror touches are well-executed, including a dynamite bedroom encounter involving a chainsaw. "Studio 666" gets caught up in the power of an evil book and the wrath of the previous renters, but at the core of the movie is a metalhead dream come true, blending a demonic uprising with headbanging musicianship and goofballery, which makes for an enjoyable ride with big laughs.
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