Room Temperature 2025

The new film from legendary underground novelist Dennis Cooper and artist Zac Farley is a side-eyed, tonally unpredictable portrait of a family-run haunted house in the California desert, with an undercurrent of menace that evokes the early films of Bruno Dumont. In the lead-up to Halloween, a family transforms their home and yard into a haunted house and invites a local high schooler to walk through it, but it appears the father's increasingly obsessive fantasies are taking a toll on the family