Good Boys Film Club Presents: Room Temperature (2025)
Heart Centre Headingley, West Yorkshire, LS6 3HN
Friday 31st July 2026
Good Boys Film Club is proud to present the UK'S first public screening of Room Temperature' (2025), directed by Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley.
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Room Temperature is skimmed straight from pastoral America's cloying surface, stretching taut an uneven flesh wet with violence, familial schisms, and the threat of social alienation. The film follows a family as they attempt to construct a 'Haunted House' attraction within their home, a spectacle of fabricated horror, designed to entice as many people as possible to revel in its shimmering, plastic terror. However, their plans are soon haunted by unintended spectres: interpersonal conflict, strained relations, and the father's controlling vision. Cracks in the façade break open, smudging the boundary of artifice between manufactured dread and that which underlies American life.
Room Temperature is singular in its voice, tracing the broken signal between thought and action, thereby making lucid the familiar struggle of externalised communication. Use of non-actors, designated 'strange' upon the surface of the screen, become bodies made other within comfort-less landscapes, the Californian desert an ideal vista for such an unbecoming. Through waves of bubbling tension, Cooper and Farley close the gap we so desperately employ in our proximity to violence, mediated or otherwise.
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HAUNTED HOUSE attire is encouraged. Don your tackiest mask, lather yourself in fake blood, and unearth that plastic knife from Halloweens past. I want to see every manner of ghoul, ghost, and gremlin!
Leeds-based artist and nightlife demon Sailor Stephens (Weaklings) will be exhibiting new work at the event, made in response to the film. Their practice explores hedonism, sleaze, secret worlds, the desperate search for salvation, the psychogeographies of shitty rented English houses and underground queer culture.
Dennis Cooper is a writer, artist, and filmmaker based between Paris and LA. Previous works include: The George Miles Cycle (1989-2000), The Sluts (2004), Like Cattle Towards Glow (2015), Permanent Green Light (2018).
Zac Farley is a Paris-based visual artist, working primarily in film, video, and installation. Previous works include: Like Cattle Towards Glow (2015), Permanent Green Light (2018).
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Before the screening, attendees are encouraged to explore the work Weaklings has created. At 7:15pm, an intro recorded by Dennis and Zac will play.
Ticket Information
Tickets are at a recommended donation of £5. Unwaged tickets can also be purchased for £3. The event is NOTAFLOF: please do message me if you would like to attend but cannot afford to come.
Accessibility
HEART is a fully accessible venue. For more information, look at their website: https://heartcentre.org.uk/accessibility/
TIMINGS
DOORS: 7pm
RECORDED INTRO: 7:15PM
FILM: 7:30PM
EVENT END: 9PM
Content warnings: violence, blood, horror, themes of abuse
THIS IS AN 18+ EVENT
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Room Temperature is skimmed straight from pastoral America's cloying surface, stretching taut an uneven flesh wet with violence, familial schisms, and the threat of social alienation. The film follows a family as they attempt to construct a 'Haunted House' attraction within their home, a spectacle of fabricated horror, designed to entice as many people as possible to revel in its shimmering, plastic terror. However, their plans are soon haunted by unintended spectres: interpersonal conflict, strained relations, and the father's controlling vision. Cracks in the façade break open, smudging the boundary of artifice between manufactured dread and that which underlies American life.
Room Temperature is singular in its voice, tracing the broken signal between thought and action, thereby making lucid the familiar struggle of externalised communication. Use of non-actors, designated 'strange' upon the surface of the screen, become bodies made other within comfort-less landscapes, the Californian desert an ideal vista for such an unbecoming. Through waves of bubbling tension, Cooper and Farley close the gap we so desperately employ in our proximity to violence, mediated or otherwise.
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HAUNTED HOUSE attire is encouraged. Don your tackiest mask, lather yourself in fake blood, and unearth that plastic knife from Halloweens past. I want to see every manner of ghoul, ghost, and gremlin!
Leeds-based artist and nightlife demon Sailor Stephens (Weaklings) will be exhibiting new work at the event, made in response to the film. Their practice explores hedonism, sleaze, secret worlds, the desperate search for salvation, the psychogeographies of shitty rented English houses and underground queer culture.
Dennis Cooper is a writer, artist, and filmmaker based between Paris and LA. Previous works include: The George Miles Cycle (1989-2000), The Sluts (2004), Like Cattle Towards Glow (2015), Permanent Green Light (2018).
Zac Farley is a Paris-based visual artist, working primarily in film, video, and installation. Previous works include: Like Cattle Towards Glow (2015), Permanent Green Light (2018).
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Before the screening, attendees are encouraged to explore the work Weaklings has created. At 7:15pm, an intro recorded by Dennis and Zac will play.
Ticket Information
Tickets are at a recommended donation of £5. Unwaged tickets can also be purchased for £3. The event is NOTAFLOF: please do message me if you would like to attend but cannot afford to come.
Accessibility
HEART is a fully accessible venue. For more information, look at their website: https://heartcentre.org.uk/accessibility/
TIMINGS
DOORS: 7pm
RECORDED INTRO: 7:15PM
FILM: 7:30PM
EVENT END: 9PM
Content warnings: violence, blood, horror, themes of abuse
THIS IS AN 18+ EVENT
