October Horror Movie Challenge - Studio 666 (2022)

 

Plot

Suffering from writer's block, the Foo Fighters, move into a mysterious mansion with a gruesome rock'n'roll history. Soon lead singer, Dave Grohl, becomes obsessed with a satanic tune, and the bandmates have to work to stay alive and save him.

Review

Let me start out by saying, if you love the Foo Fighters, you need to watch this. Also if you love rock based horror, you need to watch this. The band play themselves are the gents are funny af. Anyone who's seen their music videos could probably figure that one out.  I seriously laughed my ass off during this one. There's a climactic battle that involves to character repeatedly kicking each other in the nuts. Now that's high art. Grohl is fantastic as the lead. It's great to see him slip into the demon's embrace. It's also to see him falling back on his demonic acting chops (having played a demon twice for Tenacious D projects). Finally the movie has some cheesy, but gnarly effects for horror hounds. I was a big fan of the reoccurring shadowy demons.

In Your Game

While What Shadows Hide seems like the obvious place to go to stat out Dave Grohl for SURVIVE THIS!!, I though Dark Places & Demogorgons had two classes that were more appropriate. Dave fits into both the Metal Head and Performer mold. In a lot of ways performer makes more sense, his association with demons and such in the flick (and previous roles), I felt Metal Head was more appropriate. So I present to you, Dave Grohl statted out as a high level player character. 

Dave Grohl

Class/Level: Metal Head 10

Alignment: Neutral 

STR: 13 (+1)

INT: 14 (+1)
WIS: 13 (+1)
DEX: 14 (+1)
CON: 14 (+1)
CHA: 18 (+3)
SUR: 14

Courage: 13

Critical: 14 
Death: 13

Magic: 15
Mental: 13
Poison: 12

AC: 11

HP: 45

Toughness: +3/+3 Shadow 

Move: 12

Attack Bonus

+1 to hit melee

+1 to hit range

+2 to hit unarmed

Damage

Unarmed 2

Brass Knuckles d6+1

Skills: 

Art & Music 8 (+9) 

Cooking 2 (+3)

Fighting: Brawling 2

Intimidation 1 (+5)

Knowledge: Paranormal 4 (+5)

Knowledge: Pop Culture 4 (+5)

Performance 8 (+13)

Persuasion 4 (+7)

Traits:

-2 to all social interactions with authority figures

May use extra SUR point on a failed roll

+1 action per round

Advantage on Performance checks

Metal Powers (10)

Battery

Darkness Descends

Demon Bell

Die By The Sword

Fire In The Hole

Inner Self

Now It's Dark

Number of the Beast

Shake the Foundations

The Unknown Knows

Gear: Anything he wants because he's a f#cking rock star!

New Movies: 1

Other Horror Movies Watched Since Last Post: -

Challenge Total: 1