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Control Freak

2025 · 104 min

A slow-burn body horror that burrows under your skin, blending family trauma with visceral dread and an unsettling sense of inherited curse.

Tagline: It's in your head.
Overview: A motivational speaker, plagued by an uncontrollable itch on her head, becomes infected with a parasitic demon from her homeland.
How it feels: Dark, tense, eerie and melancholic. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Trauma, family, identity, guilt
Content: Strong violence and gore. Mild sexual content and language.
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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: trauma
family
identity
guilt
madness
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: twist ending
Content intensity: Gore strong
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild