Movies like Control Freak (2025)
The best movies like Control Freak (2025) are The Ruse (2025), Appendage (2023) and The Beldham (2025). If Control Freak hooked you with its horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedObsession (2026)8.2/10 from 6,549 votes
- NewestNightborn (2026)Released 2026
The Ruse (2025)
An in-home caregiver fears for her life after being assigned to a mysterious elderly patient in a remote seaside home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Appendage (2023)
After hitting a breaking point, Hannah's inner thoughts physicalize into a monstrous creature that threatens to upend her life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Beldham (2025)
At the edge of postpartum psychosis, new mother Harper moves in with her own mother at their family's rural farmhouse. Soon she finds herself hunted by a threatening monster who has designs on her child.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Front Room (2024)
Everything goes to hell for newly-pregnant Belinda after her mother-in-law moves in. As the diabolical guest tries to get her claws on the child, Belinda must draw the line somewhere.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisNightborn (2026)
In Finnish forest, Saga and her husband Jon embark on a new chapter as parents. But Saga's joy is overshadowed by a chilling suspicion about their newborn, unbeknownst to Jon, causing a rift as she alone grapples with the disturbing truth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisTraumatika (2025)
Mikey's night terrors become reality when his mother begins showing signs of demonic possession. What he's about to experience will haunt him for the rest of his life and claim countless lives across generations.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Speed Demon (2026)
Aboard a high-speed train, a nun who has lost her faith must perform her first exorcism on a possessed passenger hellbent on crashing the runaway train.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Hokum (2026)
When novelist Ohm Bauman retreats to a remote inn to scatter his parents' ashes, he is consumed by tales of a witch haunting the honeymoon suite. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance forces him to confront dark corners of his past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSleep No More (2018)
It's 1986 and a group of grad students are close to discovering what happens to the human brain after staying awake for 200 hours, but something goes terribly wrong with a test subject. After their department is shut down, the team moves forward in secret - only this time on themselves.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBed Rest (2023)
After struggling to start a family, Julie Rivers becomes pregnant and moves into a new home with her husband. She's ordered to mandatory bed rest, and begins seeing ghostly happenings throughout the house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisObsession (2026)
After breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisPossession (1981)
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMaa (2025)
A mother and daughter encounter a demon in a village where girls have been disappearing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLet Her Out (2016)
Twenty-three years after her hooker mother tried to kill her in the womb Helen remains damaged psychological goods. A mindset that gets worse when she suffers a traumatic head injury in an accident. Awakening in hospital, it’s discovered Helen has a tumour growth in her brain causing her to experience dark visions, disembodied voices and the omnipresence of a strange young woman. Soon, lost in a walking nightmare, in which nothing is what it seems, and her vicious actions barely remembered, it becomes crystal clear that whatever is inside her cracked psyche will stop at nothing to get out.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisHost (2020)
Six friends hire a medium to hold a séance via Zoom during lockdown — but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong. When an evil spirit starts invading their homes, they begin to realise they might not survive the night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMother of Flies (2025)
When a young woman faces a deadly diagnosis, she seeks dark magic from a witch in the woods... but every cure has costs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDolly (2026)
Young Macy is abducted by a deranged, monstrous figure who wants to raise her as its child.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBring Her Back (2025)
Following the death of their father, a brother and sister are sent to live with a foster mother, only to learn that she is hiding a terrifying secret.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisShaman (2025)
A Missionary converting an Indigenous Community in a remote Ecuadorian volcano must come to terms with her own Faith when her son is possessed by dark forces older than her own religion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisTastes of Horror (2023)
A new concept horror IP cross project that turns six selected works out of 19 serial webtoons of the same name (Tastes of Horror) into movies. "DingDong Challenge: The reason why you shouldn't do dance challenge carelessly", "Four Legged Beast: Story of meeting a doppelganger with broken neck", "Jackpot: what happened when I took a taxi nearby", "The Residents-Only Gym: A woman who appears after 10 PM", "Rehabilitation: Cruel clinical trials currenly underway in the lab", and "Gluttony: The strange things that happened during a live broadcast."
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Lullaby (2022)
A new mother discovers a lullaby in an ancient book and soon regards the song as a blessing. But her world transforms into a nightmare when the lullaby brings forth the ancient demon Lilith.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisClock (2023)
On the eve of her 38th birthday, a woman desperately attempts to fix her broken biological clock.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisAnnihilation (2018)
A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJagged Mind (2023)
When Billie finds herself reliving different versions of the same first date, she must break out of a series of loops created by her manipulative ex-girlfriend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Fly (1986)
When brilliant, eccentric scientist Seth Brundle makes a huge technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRelic (2020)
When elderly mother Edna inexplicably vanishes, her daughter rushes to the family's decaying home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered around the house in her absence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIt Follows (2015)
A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNightbitch (2024)
A woman, thrown into the stay-at-home routine of raising a toddler in the suburbs, slowly embraces the feral power deeply rooted in motherhood, as she becomes increasingly aware of the bizarre and undeniable signs that she may be turning into a dog.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Arborist (2025)
A grief-stricken arborist and her son awaken a haunting when they begin felling trees at the estate of a mysterious recluse.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Possessor (2020)
Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies to terminate high profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment, Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Control Freak?
The closest matches to Control Freak are The Ruse (2025), Appendage (2023) and The Beldham (2025). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Control Freak?
People who watched Control Freak most often go on to The Ruse (2025), Appendage (2023) and The Beldham (2025).
What is the highest-rated movie like Control Freak?
Obsession (2026), rated 8.2/10 by 6,549 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Control Freak?
Nightborn (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Control Freak?
Yes: The Ruse (2025), Appendage (2023) and The Beldham (2025).
How are movies similar to Control Freak chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Control Freak, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.