Foo Fighters escalate Ice Bucket challenge

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Foo Fighters escalate Ice Bucket challenge

By Lisa Visentin
Updated

The simple premise of the viral Ice Bucket phenomenon has escalated to a game of one-upmanship, as celebrities post videos of their increasingly outrageous attempts to complete the charity challenge.

Not content to simply self-douse with a bucket of icy cold water as per the challenge's awareness-raising intentions, Foo Fighter's frontman Dave Grohl has completed the latest bar-raising venture, recreating the disastrous prom scene from the 1976 horror film Carrie.

Donning a cheap gold tiara and a prom frock, Grohl reenacts the movie's iconic bucket-of-blood scene which sees Carrie White, the 17-year-old protagonist, doused in pig's blood after school bullies rig the Prom King and Queen nominations to ensure she is handed the crown.

With the blood substituted for icy water, Grohl channels the elation befitting the America prom queen dream, before being drenched from a bucket drop contraption triggered by fellow Foo Fighters Pat Smear and Nate Mendel.

Grohl fittingly passes the challenge to John Travolta, who starred in the film, and Stephen King, upon whose novel the film is based. He also nominated actor and comedian Jack Black.

Last week, Canadian professional ice hockey player Paul Bissonnette raised the stakes when he used a helictor to complete his bucket drop from a mountainside wearing just his briefs.

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