Sometimes, when I go through lists of Halloween-ish movies released in a year, I come across titles that I’m not quite sure fit the “Halloween” genre. I just cross my fingers and hope they are both good and on theme. I’m not sure Control is either of those things.

Eileen (Sara Mitich) is a captive inside a strange container. In between bouts of unconsciousness, she is given tasks by a mysterious voice. If she does not complete these tasks within the given timeframe, her daughter will be killed.

While a movie doesn’t need a huge cast in order to be good, this movie consists of three actors - two adults and one child - and one voiceover actor. They are all perfectly fine actors. However, they aren’t really given anything good to work with. In order to try to figure out when the “good part” would happen, I kept pausing the movie to look at how much time was left. Alas, the good part never came. Instead, we keep getting the same thing over and over - Eileen getting testing in an attempt to bring out psychic powers. We never get a reason why the mysterious voice wanted to bring out her psychic powers and we only vaguely get a reason why she was being tested. Spoiler alert: It wasn’t a good reason. It was actually quite stupid.

Needless to say, I do not recommend watching Control. Nothing happens for a majority of the 90-minute runtime. And when something does happen, it is so boring that you wish it didn’t. I am very disappointed that I wasted my time on it.