‘HIM’ (2025) – Movie Review: Is It A Touchdown?

It’s rare in 2025 that we get a truly unique mashup of genres fused together that we haven’t seen before. Such is the case in the newest film from Jordan Peele’s (Get Out 2017) Monkeypaw Productions, Him. Let’s take a look at this movie and see if it’s worth filling the stands for.

Him is a football/horror genre-blend written by Zack Akers (Limetown TV series 2019), Skip Bronkie (who also wrote for Limetown), and Justin Tipping (Kicks 2016) and directed by Tipping. It stars Tyrik Withers (I Know What You Did Last Summer 2025, read our review here) and Marlon Wayans (Air 2023). Withers plays football prodigy Cameron Cade, who’s raised and destined to be the next big star at any cost. Wayans represents Isaiah White, the best quarterback in football history who’s approaching retirement. White takes an injured Cade under his wing to see how far he’ll go to be the best. The chemistry between the two is wonderful, and the acting throughout is eccentric and intense in all the best ways.

Him manages to do a spectacular job at accurately nailing the culture of football and the energy around the locker room and its atmosphere. They also lay out a ton of metaphors, like the cost of success, worshipping false idols, and selling your soul for fame. Everything is shot and edited very smoothly in spite of the larger-than-life circumstances, like a fever dream that’s controlled by the slumbering narrator. Him is both pretty and psychotic, simultaneously.

Him starts to lose steam on its over reliance on trippy imagery and a confusion of motivation for its protagonist. The last act begins to fumble away any remaining semblance of reality, losing the stakes in a battlefield of blood. The gore is well executed, but our connection to the characters fails to cash in on what it spent a lot of time building up.

In any case, Him offers a genuinely fresh sports related horror movie that is sure to pull in an audience that might not normally touch down in theaters.