{"id":1148645,"date":"2026-02-07T17:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=539751"},"modified":"2026-02-07T17:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:20:13","slug":"kelly-marie-trans-new-horror-movie-turns-the-pressure-we-feel-to-have-it-all-together-into-a-monstrous-consuming-itch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/kelly-marie-trans-new-horror-movie-turns-the-pressure-we-feel-to-have-it-all-together-into-a-monstrous-consuming-itch\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Marie Tran\u2019s new horror movie turns the \u2018pressure we feel to have it all together\u2019 into a monstrous, consuming itch"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kelly Marie Tran reaches a hand up to scratch her head in Control Freak. Blood is visible on her hairline\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/kelly-marie-trans-new-horror-movie-turns-the-pressure-we-feel-to-have-it-all-together-into-a-monstrous-consuming-itch.jpg\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The horror movie <em>Control Freak<\/em>, now streaming on Hulu, has a super relatable premise: the intense, nagging sensation of a persistent itch. It stars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2018\/6\/5\/17429164\/kelly-marie-tran-leaves-instagram\">Kelly Marie Tran<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/animation-cartoons\/2021\/3\/2\/22309833\/raya-and-the-last-dragon-dragon-design-disney\"><em>Raya and the Last Dragon<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2017\/12\/12\/16749732\/star-wars-review-the-last-jedi-rian-johnson-luke-rey\"><em>Star Wars: The Last Jedi<\/em><\/a>) as Val, a motivational speaker tormented by an itch on the back of her head that she can\u2019t leave alone. She tries bandages, wears many beanies, and ties down her hands when she sleeps. But the demonic itch steadily breaks down her body and her will, summoning something monstrous into her ordered existence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The movie, written and directed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shalngo.com\/the-park\"><em>The Park<\/em><\/a>\u2019s Shal Ngo, manifests the source of this torment as a paranormal monster connected to the generational trauma of Val\u2019s parents\u2019 flight from the Vietnam War. But the itch also has a psychological dimension anyone can relate to: It represents Val\u2019s persistent, suppressed anxiety breaking through her attempts to clamp down on it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u201cI\u2019m playing in these really high-anxiety moments in someone&#8217;s mind, and it got really intense,\u201d Tran told Polygon in a video call alongside Ngo. Tran had never been in a horror feature before, let alone in a starring role requiring her to be in virtually every shot of a movie that was filmed in a 22-day sprint. \u201cI\u2019ve never done anything like that before. There were days where I would have, I&#8217;m not exaggerating, seven outfit changes in a day,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was wild. I had a great time, and it was also really hard, and I learned so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">But the physical and mental demands of the shoot took their toll. \u201cBy the end, I was pretty unwell,\u201d she laughed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Control Freak | Official Trailer | Hulu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZxJ-raCdP6w?rel=0\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" allowfullscreen allow=\"accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Ngo got the idea for the movie from a disturbing true story, recounted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2008\/06\/30\/the-itch\">New Yorker article<\/a>, about a woman who had an itch so bad, she scratched through her skull and into her brain. \u201cIt started with realistic body horror, like the actual horrors of having a body and having something go wrong in your wiring to the degree where something like that can happen,\u201d Ngo said. \u201cI thought [that] was very, very terrifying.\u201d Hard agree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Developing the concept from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shalngo.com\/control\">his earlier short<\/a>, Ngo initially went down a medically angled route that was \u201cmuch more pedantic and about the science of the brain.\u201d In that version, Val was a video game programmer. But Ngo felt the story worked better when he brought in elements that made it more personal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">That started with a light satire of self-help culture, inspired by Ngo\u2019s experiences with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.landmarkworldwide.com\/the-landmark-forum\">Landmark Forum<\/a> and David Lynch\u2019s beloved transcendental meditation. (\u201cIt started to get a little culty,\u201d he said.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">For Tran, Val\u2019s status as a motivational guru unlocked the character. \u201cIt hyper-pressurizes this feeling she has that she has to present herself in a way that seems polished and professional. She wants people to view her this very specific way,\u201d Tran said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u201cAnd yet on the inside, she&#8217;s basically the opposite,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I think there are a lot of people walking around in the world who have the same perspective no matter what your job is. I think that there&#8217;s a pressure that we can feel to try and seem like we have it all together and we might not.\u201d In this context, Val\u2019s self-help aphorisms have an ironic undertone. \u201cFor so much of the film, you&#8217;re seeing this person not listen to any of the things she&#8217;s telling other people to do, which I think is just the funniest, smartest juxtaposition,\u201d Tran said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/kelly-marie-trans-new-horror-movie-turns-the-pressure-we-feel-to-have-it-all-together-into-a-monstrous-consuming-itch-1.jpg\" alt=\"Kelly Marie Tran looks shocked while a man in the foreground shows her his bloody hand in Control Freak\" title=\"Kelly Marie Tran looks shocked while a man in the foreground shows her his bloody hand in Control Freak\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Then there were the paranormal elements, rooted in East Asian folklore. Ngo says the monster plaguing Val in <em>Control Freak<\/em> is based on \u201can ancient Chinese parasite that has to do with bad karma and this endless hunger. Then I used some creative license and turned it into something that was a little bit more Vietnamese. There&#8217;s different versions of these hungry demons in Korea and Japan that can never be satiated, that induce this hunger in you, and that just seemed to be a good starting-off point for the incessant itch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Initially, Ngo says, he toyed with using generative AI to create a visually surreal monster. \u201cI thought it would be very cool to do a pure AI monster in a movie. I was like, <em>What if this is the first movie with an AI monster?<\/em>\u201d He discussed it with a friend \u201cwho does a lot of really cool stuff with AI,\u201d playing with the idea of \u201cthis presence that was just constantly changing and shifting into something else.\u201d In the end, though, he went with \u201csomething much more grounded and physical and practical [that] could really touch you and move you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Ngo introduced <em>Control Freak<\/em>\u2019s focus on the Vietnamese American immigrant experience, which Tran really responded to. Val\u2019s spiral begins with a quest for a missing birth certificate, which leads her to track down her estranged father and explore roots she had purposefully disconnected from. Just like Val\u2019s father in the film, Ngo\u2019s grandfather was a Buddhist monk who had served in the South Vietnamese army. That\u00a0specificity spoke to Tran when she read the script.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u201cMy parents are refugees from the Vietnam War, so having that be part of Val&#8217;s father&#8217;s story and his experience, and that being the source of the demonic curse that&#8217;s taking over their lives \u2014 yeah, it felt really personal and relevant,\u201d Tran said. \u201cI&#8217;m just such a huge fan of horror, and I found the concept of addressing generational trauma within the genre really exciting, in addition to it being such a Vietnamese story.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>Control Freak<\/em> is streaming on Hulu now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/horror\/539751\/control-freak-hulu-kelly-marie-tran-interview\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The horror movie Control Freak, now streaming on Hulu, has a super relatable premise: the intense, nagging sensation of a persistent itch. It stars Kelly Marie Tran (Raya and the Last Dragon, Star Wars: The Last Jedi) as Val, a motivational speaker tormented by an itch on the back of her head that she can\u2019t leave alone. She tries bandages, wears many beanies, and ties down her hands when she sleeps. But the demonic itch steadily breaks down her body and her will, summoning something monstrous into her ordered existence. The movie, written and directed by The Park\u2019s Shal Ngo, manifests the source of this torment as a paranormal monster connected to the generational trauma of Val\u2019s parents\u2019 flight from the Vietnam War. 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