X, which introduced the world to Mia Goth and Pearl. However, her most prominent horror movie role came in Scream, where she became the new leading lady in the franchise, starting with the fifth movie and continuing into the sixth film.

In Scream, Ortega and Melissa Barrera star as sisters Tara and Sam Carpenter, the main replacements for the departing Neve Campbell, and the two stars expected to carry the franchise into the future. While both stars departed the Scream series after the sixth movie, they still proved their worth with their appearances. For fans who loved seeing Jenna Ortega as a scream queen in Scream, one of her early notable horror roles was in the cult horror film Studio 666.

Studio 666 Is A Unique Horror Comedy

The Horror Movie Stars The Foo Fighters As Themselves

When Studio 666 came out in 2022, many horror fans were unsure what to expect. The film is a horror movie starring the rock band The Foo Fighters as themselves. This made it seem like a gimmick movie, and the fear was that it would never work as anything greater than a kitsch release. However, many of these detractors didn't understand that lead singer Dave Grohl is a massive horror fan, and this film was a love letter to the genre rather than a vanity project for the band.

In the end, Studio 666 is a love letter to the video nasties of the 70s and 80s, and anyone who loves movies like the original Evil Dead should love what this film achieved. Studio 666 stars the Foo Fighters as themselves, at a point in their career where the band needed to find a spark for their next album. Grohl learned they could record their album in an old mansion that has an ominous history since an older band was involved in a mass murder-suicide in this mansion years prior.

The result is a bloody, gory, and hilarious horror comedy.

The band not only decided to record their album there, but they decided to live there while recording the album. They realized too late that an evil demonic spirit haunted the house, which was responsible for the tragedy with the past band. Now, it has its eyes set on the Foo Fighters. The result is a bloody, gory, and hilarious horror comedy that owes more to Sam Raimi and the horror movies of the 80s than most throwback horror movies released today.

Jenna Ortega Steals The Show In Just A Few Minutes

Jenna Ortega Opens The Movie With A Splash

While most of the movie sees the Foo Fighters fighting for their survival and mostly losing, the film starts with the end of the massacre that the last band went through. This massacre saw the lead singer of the band Dream Widow, Greg, kill all his band with one remaining. That surviving member was the drummer, Skye Willow, played by Jenna Ortega. The movie's first scene sees Skye crawling through the mansion, a bone protruding from her leg, trying to survive.

She saw the frontman, Greg, standing before her with a hammer. Looking over, she saw a fellow bandmate dead in one of the first gruesome scenes in the film. She then tried to escape but ended up taking a hammer to her head as well. It was a short scene, but Ortega was there to show audiences what Studio 666 was about, and this one shining scene revealed that the movie was a throwback, gory horror comedy. It all paid off with a fun horror movie when all was said and done.