Parents' Guide to Control Freak

Parents need to know that Control Freak is an American horror movie about a Vietnamese American motivational speaker named Val (Kelly Marie Tran) who's become successful and virally famous. But just as her career is about to jump to the next level, she starts feeling an itch at the back of her head, and it doesn't go away. Expect strong violence, gore, injury detail, self-harm, and mutilation. A large demon creature with scary claws, head, and thousands of insects constantly crawling all over its skin repeatedly threatens, chases, and attacks a character. A character scratches a spot on the back of her head until she makes a bloody hole, which she pushes her own finger into before passing out. A person uses a saw to cut through their own wrist; it's gory, with skin, bone, and blood flying everywhere. It's then cauterized. A character also saws through a demon's arm, face, and head. Other scenes include stabbing, hordes of countless crawling bugs, images of rashes/bumps/ther skin conditions, drowning, vomiting, and a child being shot by a soldier. A character drugs, knocks out, and ties another character to a bed. Adult characters have sex a few times, one character performs implied oral sex, a woman's side breasts are shown during a sex scene, and a man masturbates in the shower (bare buttocks shown). Characters often smoke cigarettes, and one often vapes. A character with a drug dependency hides his drugs in his bedroom, and a person snorts some kind of powder. Strong language includes "f--k," "s--t," "ass," "sucks," "hard-on," and "junkie."

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