Directors Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley in attendance.
Wednesday, September 17, 8:00 p.m. | CUFF 2025 opens with the Midwest premiere of ROOM TEMPERATURE, the third and most hauntingly realized collaboration between cult author Dennis Cooper (THE SLUTS, THE GEORGE MILES CYCLE) and filmmaker Zac Farley. Set against the barren sprawl of the California desert, the film follows a family’s annual tradition of transforming their home into a DIY haunted house—an increasingly unhinged ritual now hijacked by the father’s obsessive vision. Hilarious, uncomfortable, and deeply strange, this is haunted-house cinema as poetic autopsy—a slow, disquieting meditation on control, longing, and the fantasies we force onto others. (CUFF) Dialogue: Directors Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley in attendance.
Chicago Underground Film Festival Select Screenings | September 17–21, 2025
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The Film Center is ADA accessible. This presentation will be projected without open captions. The theater is hearing-loop equipped. For accessibility requests, please email filmcenter@saic.edu