A late night screening of this 1980 psychological thriller exploring repressed desire. A police detective goes undercover in the underground gay subculture of New York City to catch a serial killer who is murdering numerous gay men with S&M tactics.

Throughout 2025, Showroom Cinema is celebrating the life and work of one of the great film artists with In Dreams. A retrospective of the late David Lynch’s screen dreams and visual nightmares.

The origin of the term ‘gaslighting’ dates back well before the internet made it commonplace. This series of talks and screenings in the Showroom's Film Studies programme will look at four films from the 1940s in this rich vein of murder melodramas.

Boundary-pushing LGBTQ+ cinema from East and Southeast Asia and its diaspora communities. Highlights at the Showroom: stories of two girls working in a cinema in Taiwan, a young gay porn star found dead in Tokyo, and historical brutal passions.