Cherub
$11.50
Dir. Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley
2025, USA, France, 92 min
Rated 18A (Unrated)
The new film from legendary underground novelist Dennis Cooper and visual 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 (Chris Olsen) to walk through it, but it appears the father’s (John Williams) increasingly obsessive fantasies
are taking a toll on the family. Willfully eccentric, full of left turns but always controlled and precise, Room Temperature marks an exciting creative breakthrough for one of America’s living masters of regional transgression and surrealism. — LAFM
Join us on November 1 at 7PM for a pre-recorded Q&A with filmmakers Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley.
Content warning: This film contains scenes of violence.
