Incontrol

Incontrol is a 2017 science-fiction film written and directed by Kurtis David Harder.

The story follows Samantha, a sociology student who's introduced to a group of friends who use a device that allows users to control another person. Sam, Mark, Victor, and Jenny use the machine to possess rich students to attend parties with lots of sex and drugs without consequences. However, their actions soon have unforeseen consequences, leading to a deepening sense of paranoia and loss of control.

• Bittersweet Ending: All four of the main characters are dead, but the ending implies that Sam was able to live on as Marissa, whom Sam wanted to be.
• Body Snatcher: The story revolves around four people who use a device to take control of other people's bodies without those people being aware that they're being controlled. Towards the end of the movie, two of them become controlled in the same way by unknown people.
• False Friend: The main characters are brought together by their use of the mind-control device. Later, it's implied that their friendship was arranged by other people controlling the characters to bring them together so that they could be experimented on.
• Flashback: In order to let the audience infer what is happening during the big reveal, there is a flashback to Sam explaining the panopticon to Mark.
• Gender Bender: Sam talks with Mark about "gender hopping" by using the device. Victor and Jenny like it while Mark himself does not. Sam then tries to have sex while controlling a man but she doesn't like it.
• Grand Theft Me: The four main characters use the mind-control device to disguise themselves as rich people to attend parties, do drugs, and steal money. In the end, Max and Jenny become controlled by others to kill Sam and Victor and then themselves.
• The Hedonist: All of the main characters use the device to control other people for partying, sex, drugs, and money since the mind-control device lets them do so without facing consequences. Victor in particular also mugs a man because he thought it would be funny.
• In Medias Res: The film begins with Mark's girlfriend Marissa in her car panicking and trying to call other people before crashing her car. Most of the rest of the movie leads up to this moment.
• Lecture as Exposition: The opening credits are accompanied by a lecture from Sam's professor about the erosion of privacy as a result of new technology, which is the premise of the movie.
• Mind Control: Throughout the movie, the main characters use the mind-control to take control of other people's bodies. They do this to indulge in hedonism without needing to experience the consequences in their own bodies.
• Mind Control Device: The device that enables the characters to control minds is unnamed and is of unknown origin. It's a black cube with wires connected to electrodes that can be attached to people's heads. Users can hook up to the device to remotely take control of other people, and the people being controlled aren't aware that they're being controlled.
• Power Perversion Potential: The four main characters regularly use the mind-control device to attend parties and have sex while controlling other people's bodies.
• Showing Off the New Body: When Sam uses the mind-control device to take control of Mark's girlfriend Marissa, she strips and admires Marissa's nude body in the mirror.
• Sole Survivor: All of the main characters are killed by whoever has the other mind-control device, but Marissa begins to act like Sam after Sam is killed while controlling Marissa, implying that Sam lives on in Marissa's body.