ROOM TEMPERATURE + Q&A

• Venue: Roxy Cinema New York
• Address: 2 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10013
• Dates:
  • Saturday, December 13
  • Sunday, December 14
• Tickets: Available for purchase via links provided in the text.
• Directors: Dennis Cooper, Zac Farley
• Cast: Charlie Nelson Jacobs, John Williams, Chris Olsen, Ange Dargent
• Activity Description: "Room Temperature" is a horror-drama film (2025, 92 minutes) set in the California desert. It follows a family's annual tradition of transforming their home into a DIY haunted house, an increasingly unhinged ritual driven by the father's obsessive vision. The film rejects traditional horror tropes while maintaining a horror atmosphere, building its haunted house from "plywood, grief, and quiet despair." The cast includes artists, non-actors, and a "possibly spectral French teen known only as 'Extra'," who wander through the film like "costumed ghosts in a stage set they didn't design." Shot in muted tones with deadpan performances and disorienting emotional shifts, the film explores the space between artifice and collapse.
• Post-screening Event: Q&A sessions with directors Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley will follow both screenings.
• Editorial Recommendation: The film is described as "Hilarious, uncomfortable, and deeply strange," and is characterized as "haunted-house cinema as poetic autopsy, a slow, disquieting meditation on control, longing, and the fantasies we force onto others."