Warning: This list contains spoilers for Studio 666 as well as descriptions of violence and gore.
Studio 666 is a horror movie starring the Foo Fighters that feels like it came straight out of the 1980s. A good way to describe the movie would be the mockumentary This is Spinal Tap combined with The Evil Dead. The story has the Foo Fighters trying to make their 10th album in a house and then suffering gruesome deaths.
However, these are not the down and dirty gruesome deaths of a movie like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre of Halloween. These deaths are over-the-top and intensely gruesome, using mostly practical effects and delivering as much camp as gore. However, some of the deaths were much more intense than others.
Barb Weems
At the end of the movie, there were two surprise villains who were responsible for the entire haunting and rampage. Only one of the villains got their comeuppance. Sadly, out of all the deaths in the movie, this was also the weakest when it comes to intensity and gore.
Barb, the real estate lady, had lured the Foo Fighters in and hoped the demons would win. At the end of Studio 666, she went to try to finish them off herself but was smashed into and run over by a van. It was barely shown and she died in better shape than anyone else.
The Caretaker
The Caretaker was the name in the credits for the demon who possessed the original lead singer of Dream Widow who slaughtered his entire band before the singer killed himself to stop the curse. The Caretaker then possessed Dave Grohl.
After Grohl’s bandmates used a spell to free him, he released the Caretaker, which reformed in the body of the original Dream Widow singer, and then Grohl started to beat him back to death. However, the ghosts of Dream Widow showed up and used Caretaker’s own blood to destroy him once and for all.
Darren Sandelbaum
Will Forte played Darren Sandelbaum, the food delivery driver that brought food to the Foo Fighters on two different occasions. On the first occasion, he made the offhand comment that he loved the Foo Fighters and they were his second favorite band after Coldplay.
He paid for that later when the Caretaker killed him by chopping his head off. The Foo Fighters later found him with his guts ripped out. While that was gross, most of the mutilation happened off-screen, so it didn’t have the same impact as other gruesome deaths in the film.
Nate Mendel
Nate Mendel was the last member of the Foo Fighters to die. He was trying to get the van started while Pat Smear was under the van trying to hotwire it the old-fashioned way. However, when Pat’s long wire poked through the van, it drove directly into Nate’s eye.
That was pretty intense and gruesome, but then Nate backed up and killed Barb. He got out to check on her and she drove a knife into his next in a surprising kill and the two died together behind the van.
Krug
Krug was the tech for the Foo Fighters, helping the band set up their equipment in the old house. In a great Studio 666 cameo, Slayer guitarist Kerry King had little time for Dave Grohl’s nonsense and just did what he was told with a frown on his face. Despite this, he did his job well and died doing it.
When he tried to get some wiring untangled, a demonic presence went into the wall and fried the circuits while Krug was holding them. He then held on until they stopped and ended up fried to death, blisters popping up all over his burned skin, making his end particularly gruesome and intense.
Pat Smear
Pat Smear was portrayed as one of the most likable guys in the Foo Fighters, mostly just going along with everything and trying to make it through the recording in one piece. He was often seen eating chips and slept in the kitchen to be closer to the snacks.
He was also one of the two remaining Foo Fighters left who saved Dave Grohl in the end. However, when he was trying to hotwire the van to escape, Nate accidentally shifted into reverse and drove over Pat, splitting his entire body in half, in a shocking and intense death scene.
Chris Shiflett
Chris was the first person who got tired of Dave Grohl talking down to everyone. While everyone knew Grohl was not right, Chris was the one who said he was quitting and walked out. However, he went to the patio instead of leaving and started grilling a hot dog.
That is when Grohl, possessed at this time by the Caretaker, grabbed him from behind and drove his face into the grill. He kept slamming it in and out until Chris’s face began to peel off in an intense and very disgusting moment.
Rami Jaffee
Rami Jaffee was the keyboardist and resident hippy of The Foo Fighters. His death came at the same time that he was enjoying the one moment he was most excited about. He was in bed with Samantha and the two were ready to enjoy themselves.
However, Rami started the music and the song that began to play was Jackyl’s “Lumberjack Song.” As the chainsaw solo in the song started, Dave Grohl was lying under the bed with a chainsaw of his own and sawed Rami in half.
Samantha
Samantha’s death was only slightly more intense than Rami’s because he was on top of her and that meant the chainsaw hit her first. She delivered the one fatal line, saying that the chainsaw solo was her favorite part of the song, and at that moment the chainsaw came up through the bed in a scene gruesome enough to match any intense death in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Rami watched in horror as the chainsaw graphically tore Samantha in half, face first, and then it came for Rami. In the end, Rami fell into two pieces and the chainsaw went back under the bed as Samantha rested on top of it, one half of her body on the right and the other draped over the left.
Taylor Hawkins
The one death that happened up close and personal with the best special effects was when Dave Grohl killed Taylor Hawkins, the drummer of the band. He was trying to stall Grohl by not getting the drum track right since that was all that remained of the cursed song.
However, Grohl demanded he do it right and Taylor finally hit it perfectly. He then stood up and said he was finished and Grohl picked up a symbol and threw it like a frisbee, slicing through Taylor’s face and into the wall. Taylor’s body slumped to the floor with the top half of his face sitting on top of the symbol lodged in the wall. The close-up and unexpected nature of the death makes it easily the film’s most intense.
