Him

Him is an incoherent and exhausting horror film that mistakes chaotic imagery and blunt metaphor for meaningful storytelling.
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Starring
Marlon Wayans, Tyriq Withers, Julia Fox
Director
Justing Tipping
Rating
R
Genre
Horror, Sport
Release date
Sept 19, 2025
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Rating Summary
Him is a single overly simplistic metaphor sledgehammered into its audience like a circus tent stake in the center of a screaming contest. It's an over-directed hellscape of scenes ripped from the final projects of a first-year community college remedial film course. Him is the JaMarcus Russell of football movies.

In the cutthroat arena of professional football dreams, rising star Tyriq Withers pours every ounce of sweat into becoming the next big thing, only to find his shot at glory hijacked by a shadowy mentor played by Marlon Wayans, whose twisted coaching blur the line between tough love and outright demonic possession—leaving the kid’s body and soul on the line in a game where the real score settles in blood, not points.

Him REVIEW

Him is demonic noise.

Director Justin Tipping be trippin', because what he's given us instead of a movie is the most disjointed and incoherent mess to hit the screens since Megalopolis. It's what I imagine Malcolm McDowell's character was forced to watch in A Clockwork Orange, football-themed horrors strobing their way directly into your brain with no story or rhythm.

In place of a cohesive narrative, its micron-thin plot is barely an excuse to bludgeon audiences with its overly simplistic metaphor (the generational trauma of pushing yourself and your loved ones for excellence in sports), and abuse them with hyper frenetic and often satanic imagery.

There is virtually no time (literally) given to character or plot development, and the only sense of cohesion is the feeling of being abused for daring to have purchased a ticket.

It's impossible to critique the performances because there weren't any. The main character walks around looking half asleep for 99% of the movie, while Wayans does whatever the hell (get it) it is that he is doing all movie long.

This is a movie best forgotten.

 

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James Carrick

James Carrick is a passionate film enthusiast with a degree in theater and philosophy. James approaches dramatic criticism from a philosophic foundation grounded in aesthetics and ethics, offering insight and analysis that reveals layers of cinematic narrative with a touch of irreverence and a dash of snark.

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  1. Cecil.Frank.Hamilton September 20, 2025 at

    “The JaMarcus Russell of football movies” is a really good one.

  2. aroh100876 October 7, 2025 at

    And just like that, another movie I won’t watch… not even from the torrents.

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