Exclusive Trailer for Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley’s Room Temperature Finds a Family Haunted

A favorite on the festival circuit since its premiere last year, Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley’s Room Temperature is finally getting a release this month from Altered Innocence. Ahead of a VOD, Blu-ray, and DVD debut on November 24th of the off-center family-drama-turned-ghost-story (and a John Waters favorite), we’re pleased to exclusively debut the trailer.

Here’s the synopsis: “Every Halloween, a family living in the barren sprawl of the California desert transforms their home into a DIY haunted house attraction for the neighborhood. What used to be a group effort has increasingly become the dad’s obsessive fantasy that his family is expected to enact. Hilarious, uncomfortable, and deeply strange, ROOM TEMPERATURE is haunted-house cinema as poetic autopsy, a slow, disquieting meditation on control, longing, and the fantasies we force onto others. Novelist Dennis Cooper (The George Miles Cycle and The Sluts) & visual artist Zac Farley (PERMANENT GREEN LIGHT) team up once more to create a movie that John Waters called ‘weird, creepy, and maybe… just maybe, great’.”

“The whole idea was not to make things scary––it was to present the mechanics of what would be scary,” Cooper told us ahead of the New York premiere last fall. “No one seems even remotely scared in the film. They’re all kind of bemused at most. The film has this false start: at the beginning you see the house, and it’s playing this crazy music, and the lights are going on and off, and it looks like it’s going to be really scary. But then by the time he actually gets inside the house, it just turns out to be a really shitty haunted house.”

See the exclusive trailer below, and pre-order the Blu-ray, DVD, and digital release here.