Character Relationship Map: Studio 666

Characters

• Dave Grohl (played by Dave Grohl) — protagonist

  Dave Grohl is the Foo Fighters' frontman and the story's central figure. He moves the band into the mansion, becomes possessed after hearing a demo, and murders several people while forcing the album'...

• Taylor Hawkins (played by Taylor Hawkins) — protagonist

  Taylor Hawkins is a Foo Fighters member who is pressured by the possessed Dave Grohl to complete the album's song. He finishes the track under Grohl's coercion, but Grohl then partially decapitates hi...

• Nate Mendel (played by Nate Mendel) — supporting

  Nate Mendel is a Foo Fighters member who helps Pat Smear retrieve the book needed to free Dave Grohl from possession. During the final ambush, he is stabbed through the eye, accidentally runs over Pat...

• Pat Smear (played by Pat Smear) — supporting

  Pat Smear is a Foo Fighters member who works with Nate Mendel to recover the book that can release Dave Grohl from the demon's control. While repairing a car, he is accidentally run over when Nate is...

• Jeremy Shill (played by Jeff Garlin) — supporting

  Jeremy Shill is the Foo Fighters' manager who pressures the band to overcome writer's block and record a new album in the mansion. After the possession ends, he ambushes the survivors with Barb Weems...

• Chris Shiflett (played by Chris Shiflett) — supporting

  Chris Shiflett is a Foo Fighters member who is attacked while cooking at the mansion. Dave Grohl pushes his face onto the grill, smashes his head with the grill cover, and repeatedly stabs his neck. G...

• Rami Jaffee (played by Rami Jaffee) — supporting

  Rami Jaffee is a Foo Fighters member caught in the mansion's supernatural violence. He has sex with Samantha while the band seeks a way to free Dave Grohl, but Grohl attacks them beneath the bed with...

• Krug (played by Kerry King) — minor

  Krug is a member of the band's technical crew who is electrocuted by a wire at the mansion. His death prompts the Foo Fighters to dedicate their album to him, making the accident an early event that s...

• Samantha (played by Whitney Cummings) — supporting

  Samantha is a neighbor who helps the Foo Fighters understand the mansion's history and Dave Grohl's possession. She participates in the effort to find the book needed for an exorcism, but while having...

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Krug → Dave Grohl (Professional Music Technician) — A technical working relationship marked by Krug's death and the band's tribute.

  Krug is described as one of the band's techs, and his electrocution affects the group. Grohl and the band decide to dedicate the album to him.

• Jeremy Shill → Dave Grohl (Professional Manager) — A managerial relationship that initiates the mansion recording project.

  Jeremy Shill pressures Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters to overcome writer's block and record a new album.

• Rami Jaffee → Samantha (Romantic Sexual Encounter) — A brief intimate encounter interrupted by the supernatural threat.

  The plot states that Samantha and Jaffee have sex before Grohl attacks them under the bed.

• Dave Grohl → Rami Jaffee (Professional Bandmate) — A documented musical partnership within the recording group.

  Rami Jaffee is identified as a Foo Fighters member working with Dave Grohl on the new album in the mansion.

• Dave Grohl → Chris Shiflett (Professional Bandmate) — A working band relationship destroyed by Grohl's possession.

  Chris Shiflett records with Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters in the mansion. While possessed, Grohl attacks Shiflett at the grill.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Samantha → Dave Grohl (Alliance Exorcism Ally) — An outside ally who provides crucial information about Grohl's condition.

  Samantha helps the band learn the mansion's backstory and Grohl's possession. She participates in the effort to find the book needed to free him.

• Nate Mendel → Pat Smear (Alliance Rescue Partners) — The clearest active partnership in the exorcism effort.

  Mendel and Smear retrieve the book from the basement and use it to free Grohl from the possession.

• Taylor Hawkins → Pat Smear (Alliance Bandmate) — A professional alliance within the endangered band.

  Taylor Hawkins and Pat Smear work together as Foo Fighters members during the mansion recording sessions.

• Taylor Hawkins → Nate Mendel (Alliance Bandmate) — A shared band affiliation under supernatural pressure.

  Taylor Hawkins and Nate Mendel are both members of the Foo Fighters recording the album in the mansion. They face the escalating danger created by Gro...

• Dave Grohl → Pat Smear (Alliance Bandmate) — A professional and loyal bandmate relationship tested by supernatural violence.

  Dave Grohl and Pat Smear are part of the Foo Fighters group recording in the mansion. Smear later joins Mendel in retrieving the book and freeing Groh...

• Dave Grohl → Nate Mendel (Alliance Bandmate) — A band alliance that shifts from collaboration to rescue.

  Dave Grohl and Nate Mendel move into the mansion with the Foo Fighters to record their album. Mendel later helps free Grohl from the possession.

• Dave Grohl → Taylor Hawkins (Alliance Bandmate) — A core musical partnership that becomes coercive after Grohl is possessed.

  Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins are shown as members of the Foo Fighters recording an album together. Grohl later pressures Hawkins to finish the song.

Story Analysis

A band enters a haunted mansion to overcome creative paralysis, only to have possession, betrayal, and violence consume the recording project.

Plot Progression

1. The Mansion Calls — Jeremy Shill pushes the Foo Fighters toward a new album, and the band relocates to the mansion. A fatal accident and Grohl's discovery of the satanic basement establish the supernatural threat.
2. Possession Takes The Studio — Grohl becomes possessed after listening to a demo tape and forces the band to keep recording. The deaths outside and inside the mansion reveal that the threat is moving through the band.
3. The Cost Of The Song — The survivors discover the mansion's history with Samantha's help and search for a book that can break the possession. Their plan collapses as Samantha, Jaffee, and Hawkins are killed.
4. Exorcism And Betrayal — Mendel and Smear use the book to free Grohl, while the mansion's souls send the demon to hell. The survivors are immediately ambushed by Jeremy, who exposes the larger plan.
5. A Solitary Encore — The ambush kills the remaining band members and leaves Grohl facing Jeremy alone. One year later, Grohl prepares for a solo concert while signs of possession remain.