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HIM
A suffocating psychological descent into athletic mania, HIM drowns the glitz of professional sports in visceral body horror, portraying ambition as a gilded slaughterhouse where the human soul is systematically drained for an idolatrous crowd.
HIM
HIM

"Greatness demands sacrifice."

18 September 2025 United States of America 96 min 5.6 (450)

Director: Justin Tipping

Cast: Tyriq Withers, Marlon Wayans, Julia Fox, Tim Heidecker, Jim Jefferies

Thriller Mystery Horror Toxic Hypermasculinity & Generational Trauma Commodification & Exploitation of Black Athletic Bodies The Faustian Pact & Ambition at Any Cost Sports as Fanatical Modern Religion
Budget: $27,000,000
Box Office: $27,834,512

HIM — Movie Quotes

Memorable Quotes

That’s what real men do. They make sacrifices. No guts. No glory.
— Cam’s Father

Context

Spoken during the prologue as young Cam watches Isaiah suffer an agonizing compound bone fracture on television.

Meaning

Serves as the ideological prison that dictates Cam's destructive choices throughout his life.

The game is the game. It can be joyful and beautiful and all those things... but it demands your blood.
— Isaiah White

Context

Delivered mid-way through Cam’s isolation training when Cam questions the extreme nature of the drills.

Meaning

Isaiah strips away sports romanticism to reveal the brutal commercial and metaphysical exchange required of elite competitors.

You think you’re here to throw a ball? You’re here to become HIM.
— Isaiah White

Context

Spoken during a grueling late-night confrontation between Isaiah and Cam.

Meaning

Defines the title of the film as an apex status stripped of humanity and individual identity.

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