Him was first released in Mexico on September 18, 2025, and was released in the United States by Universal Pictures on September 19, 2025. It received generally negative reviews from critics.
Plot
Young Cameron "Cam" Cade watches his favorite team, the San Antonio Saviors, win the league championship. His joy turns to distress when his idol, quarterback Isaiah White, suffers a violent, possibly career-ending injury while scoring the winning touchdown. Cam's father tells him that real men are willing to make sacrifices.
Years later, Cam's father has died and Cam is now a rising football star. Encouraged by his family and girlfriend, he trains for the league combine. While practicing late on an empty field, Cam is attacked by someone in a goat costume, causing a head injury that endangers his career. Motivated by his agent, Tom, Cam plans to attend the combine to pursue the Saviors' quarterback role despite brain damage risks. After concussion issues, Cam lashes out, refusing to participate. Tom, also Isaiah's agent, reveals that Isaiah is considering retirement and has offered to train Cam for a week at a remote desert compound to prove himself a worthy successor. Cam accepts and travels there, encountering crazed Isaiah fans who try to intimidate him out of replacing their hero.
At the compound, Isaiah puts Cam through disturbing challenges, including a practice drill where a football machine repeatedly hits a player in the head. Cam secretly receives shots of Isaiah's blood, thinking it boosts energy, and hallucinates masked figures, attributing it to the concussion. While in a sauna, Cam is attacked by a crazed fan but overpowers her. Isaiah kills her, leaving Cam unsettled by his lack of remorse. As Cam tries to leave, Elsie, Isaiah's wife, apologizes and seduces him. Cam wakes the next morning to Isaiah holding him at gunpoint, demanding to know if Cam and Elsie slept together. Isaiah ridicules Cam's guilt, saying killers are remorseless.
Elsie invites Cam to a secret party to meet the Saviors' owners. Upon arrival, Marco, the team doctor, whispers to Cam to "run" before leaving. The owners offer Cam a strange red liquid, which he drinks, unaware it is Isaiah's blood. Cam gets disoriented and finds Marco's severed head in a plastic-lined room. Elsie comforts him as he loses consciousness. Cam later wakes up in an ice bath at Isaiah's compound, connected to an IV of Isaiah's blood. He rips out the IV and grabs a jagged trophy, aiming to kill Isaiah and escape. Cam finds Isaiah watching a fan-recorded video. Isaiah reveals he is part of a line of manufactured "Greatest of all Time"s (G.O.A.T.), players who gain enhanced powers from ritual blood transfusions. After Isaiah tells Cam they must fight to the death for the title, the two brawl, Cam eventually killing Isaiah with a helmet.
Cam leaves the room and enters a football field where Tom, Elsie, and the Saviors' owners, wearing animal masks, await him to sign a contract. They reveal that Cam's father arranged for him to be the next G.O.A.T., having been manipulated by the elites, and that the mask attack was orchestrated to lead Cam to the Saviors. Cam retaliates; he kills his attacker with a shark, then the owners and Elsie with a sword, but spares Tom, who is then dragged into a pentagram and destroyed by an unseen force. Outside the compound, a half-bloodied Cam walks past masked cheerleaders and into the desert.
Cast
Marlon Wayans as Isaiah White, a legendary quarterback for the San Antonio Saviors.
Tyriq Withers as Cameron "Cam" Cade, a young football player who is mentored by Isaiah.
Julia Fox as Elsie White, a social media influencer and Isaiah's wife.
Zack Akers and Skip Bronkie wrote a spec script initially titled Goat—in reference to the sports term "greatest of all time" (GOAT)—and took it out for sale with WME in April 2022.[7][8] In June 2022, Monkeypaw Productions, in a deal with Universal Pictures, bought the script.[9] At the end of the year, the script was voted onto the Black List of best unproduced screenplays in 2022.[10] In January 2024, Justin Tipping was announced as the director with Marlon Wayans starring,[11] and later Tyriq Withers joined the cast.[12] In February, Julia Fox joined the cast.[13] The film was retitled Him with the setting of its release date in September 2025.[14]Principal photography was completed by November 2024.[15] The production budget had a net cost of $27 million.[2] It was filmed on location in and around Albuquerque, New Mexico. Spaceport America was used as an exterior location.[16]
Music
Bobby Krlic had composed the score for the film by April 2025.[17] The film's soundtrack was released on September 19, 2025.[18][19] On September 4, 2025, "Swim" by Guapdad 4000 and Mavi, and "Tip Toe" by Tierra Whack were released as singles from the soundtrack.[19] "Blitz" was released by Jean Dawson as the soundtrack's third single on September 10, 2025.[20] The soundtrack's fourth single, "Him" by Denzel Curry, was released on September 18, 2025.[21] The soundtrack released on September 19, 2025, alongside the film.[21]
Release
Him was first released in Mexico on September 18, 2025, and was theatrically released on September 19, 2025, by Universal Pictures.[14]
Reception
Box office
In the United States and Canada, Him will be released alongside A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, and is projected to gross $15–18 million from 3,100 theaters in its opening weekend. The film made $2 million from Thursday's previews.[3] On Friday it placed number one at the box office with $6.47 million, $2 million ahead of Demon Slayer.[22]
Critical response
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 28% of 130 critics' reviews are positive.The website's consensus reads: "Fumbling the ball well before the red zone, Him has style to spare but botches its promising concept with rookie execution."[23]Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 38 out of 100, based on 30 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.[24] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C-" on an A+ to F scale.[25]
References
↑ "Him (18)". BBFC. September 9, 2025. Archived from the original on May 6, 2025. Retrieved September 17, 2025.
1 2 "Him". Deadline Hollywood. September 19, 2025. Archived from the original on September 18, 2025. Retrieved September 20, 2025. Him was made for a net $27M.
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