Control Freak
Control Freak is a 2025 American body horror film written and directed by Shal Ngo. It stars Kelly Marie Tran, Callie Johnson, Miles Robbins, Kieu Chinh, Zack Gold, and Scott Takeda.
Plot
Valerie "Val" Nguyen is a successful motivational speaker who secretly struggles with a compulsive urge to scratch the back of her head. This behavior intensifies following the death of her mother, Chi, which occurred during a traumatic boating accident in Val's childhood.
More details
| author | Shal Ngo |
|---|---|
| director | Shal Ngo |
| editor | Dagmawi Abebe |
| genre | horror |
| keywords | birth control pill boating accident drive end estranged family folk tale inner demons motivational speaker old photograph pass speak swimming pool vietnam war |
| musicBy | Jay Wadley Landon Knoblock |
| producer | Arbi Pedrossian David Brooks Jenna Cavelle Shaum S. Sengupta |
| productionCompany | WorthenBrooks |
| publisher | Hulu |
| theme | body horror |