Parasitic mind control movies

In memetics, memes are the non-DNA genes of symbiotic visitors from the cultural realm. They influence our behavior for their own ends. Some of them are parasitic - in the technical sense that they typically reduce the fitness of their hosts. They do this by manipulating the minds of their hosts, so the hosts spend more resources on spreading their memes. As a result there are often fewer resources available for spreading host DNA around. Some memes are sometimes characterized as "mind viruses" or "viruses of the mind". This is a similar idea. The analogy to organic parasitic mind control seems pretty obvious.

Mind control parasites are a popular phenomenon in science fiction movies. Here are some trailers for some of those movies:

Shivers (trailer)

Slither (trailer)

Rabid (trailer)

The Thing (trailer)

The puppet masters (trailer)

Night of the creeps (trailer)

Dawn of the Dead (trailer)

Splinter (trailer)

This list was partly inspired by the TV tropes "Puppeteer Parasite" page.

Many other "zombie" movies have a mild "mind control" theme.

For some real parasitic mind control perhaps try my previous collection of videos on this topic.