5.8
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Room Temperature (2025)
Room Temperature (2025)
Overview
Room Temperature is a 2025 horror-drama co-directed by Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley, their third collaboration. Set in the California desert, it centers on a family preparing their annual home haunt for Halloween visitors, with the father's obsessive redesign straining dynamics. Starring Charlie Nelson Jacobs as the father, Ange Dargent as the enigmatic French adoptee, John Williams, and Chris Olsen.
Starring Cast
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Positive
Family Values: Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
5.8
Overview
Room Temperature is a 2025 horror-drama co-directed by Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley, their third collaboration. Set in the California desert, it centers on a family preparing their annual home haunt for Halloween visitors, with the father's obsessive redesign straining dynamics. Starring Charlie Nelson Jacobs as the father, Ange Dargent as the enigmatic French adoptee, John Williams, and Chris Olsen.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The film's core conflict revolves around a father's domineering haunted house project straining family bonds, emphasizing psychological tensions over any ideological stance. This observational approach to dysfunction and artistic ritual avoids promoting progressive or conservative values, resulting in a neutral political profile.
The film features a small cast with visible diversity through an AAPI actor alongside mostly white performers in family roles. Narrative explores family tensions under a domineering father figure with subtle emotional critique, screened in a queer film festival context without overt DEI messaging.
Secondary
Room Temperature weaves a queer romance into its horror tapestry, portraying LGBTQ+ lovers with dignity amid eroticized violence and familial strife. The narrative critiques heteronormative control as the source of tragedy, validating the depth and resilience of queer emotional lives without ridicule or degradation.
The film portrays a nuclear family unit disrupted by the father's domineering obsession with their annual haunted house tradition, incorporating non-traditional elements such as an adopted queer teenager and a queer romantic subplot that normalize alternative relationships within the household.
No transsexual characters or themes appear in the film. The narrative focuses on familial dynamics during a haunted house preparation, featuring queer elements like a love plotline, but lacks any depiction of transsexual experiences or identities.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Room Temperature presents an original narrative centered on a family constructing a haunted house, featuring newly created characters without ties to prior source material or historical figures that would enable gender swaps.
Room Temperature features original characters in a fictional story about a family's haunted house tradition, with no prior canon or historical baselines for races, resulting in no race swaps.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
4.9
6.7
Critic Ratings
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