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HIM
2025 96 min United States of America R 18+
★4.9
Horror, Mystery
Director: Justin Tipping
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Description
After suffering a potentially career-ending brain trauma, Cameron Cade receives a lifeline when his hero, legendary eight-time Championship quarterback and cultural megastar Isaiah White, offers to train Cam at Isaiah's isolated compound that he shares with his celebrity influencer wife. But as Cam's training accelerates, Isaiah's charisma begins to curdle into something darker.
Budget:
$27M
US Gross:
$25.01M
Worldwide:
$27.83M
Starring
Marlon Wayans
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Tyriq Withers
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Julia Fox
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Awards
7 nominations total
Key opinion
Him is a polarizing sports-horror project that prioritizes visual style and thematic ambition over traditional narrative coherence. While some viewers admire its bold, stylized critique of football culture and toxic masculinity, many critics find the film to be an aimless, self-indulgent experiment that collapses under the weight of its own metaphors.
| Cinematography | The film utilizes striking, high-contrast cinematography and a polished visual palette to create a distinct aesthetic identity. | |
| Acting | Marlon Wayans provides an expressive and menacing performance that serves as the film's strongest anchor amidst a chaotic script. | |
| Screenplay | The screenplay fails to maintain narrative momentum, devolving into a collection of abstract ideas and unresolved symbols rather than a cohesive story. | |
| Pacing | The film's pacing is deeply divisive, with an engaging initial sports-drama setup that stalls significantly as the narrative shifts into unfocused arthouse territory. | |
| Originality | Opinions on the film's genre-bending nature are split between those who value it as an intellectual, experimental puzzle and those who find its lack of conventional horror elements frustratingly deceptive. | |
| Ending | The conclusion is widely panned as unsatisfying, hollow, and failing to provide a meaningful resolution to the setup. |