Control Freak
Year: 2025 (March)
Genre:
Horror
Director:
Shal Ngo
Stars:
Kelly Marie Tran, Callie Johnson, Miles Robbins, Kieu Chinh, Zack Gold, Scott Takeda, Toan Le, Chelsea Parsons, Christina Pope, Milton Saul, Justin Piaoan, Mikah Fikes, Apollo Bacala, Stanley White Jr., Samantha Coppola, Ian Choi ...
Storyline:
Her message is clarity... Her brand is control... Her mind is cracking.
In Control Freak, a popular motivational speaker is known for her commanding presence, perfect image, and fierce grip on her personal brand. She inspires others to "take control of their lives", but behind the stage lights, her world is held together with quiet, compulsive rituals.
Then it starts: a relentless itch—just at the base of her skull. Minor. Maddening. Unreachable.
As it intensifies, so does her paranoia. Doctors find nothing. Her followers notice cracks in her polished persona. Her speeches become erratic. Her mirrors distort. And the itch? It begins to feel like something deeper—trying to get out.
As reality blurs and control slips away, she must confront the truth: what is she really running from—and what’s trying to surface through her skin?
Control Freak is a psychological descent laced with body horror, dark comedy, and metaphor, exploring themes of image, pressure, repressed trauma, and the cost of always appearing to be in control.
Similar movies to Control Freak
If you’re into mind-bending, symbolic, and character-focused thrillers, Control Freak scratches the same spot as:
Black Swan (2010) – Perfectionism cracking into madness.
Swallow (2019) – Compulsion as a window into trauma.
The Skin I Live In (2011) – Identity and the horror beneath the surface.
💡 Like these, Control Freak is intimate yet terrifying—a one-woman unraveling played out in full view, but understood only in quiet, distorted flashes.
📌 Final Thoughts
With its tight psychological lens, metaphor-rich storytelling, and a bravura lead performance, Control Freak is a darkly hypnotic psychological thriller about what happens when the person who helps everyone else… can’t stop the voice in her own head.
It’s not just an itch.
It’s everything she’s been trying to hide.
Which of these films have you seen? Let us know your thoughts in the comments!
