HIM

Name: HIM
Item: HIM
Author: Review

"Bloody Fight with a Demonic Cult"

Family Content: -3 Excessive sex, violence, immorality, and/or worldview problems. (Sometimes excessive content such as violence is in otherwise redemptive movies.)

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What You Need To Know:

HIM is a striking, crazy, scary horror thriller about football madness in America. Cameron Cade, a young mixed-race football phenom, is mysteriously attacked and suffers a head injury. He may have to sit out the upcoming football season. However, several months later, Cameron accepts an invitation from The Saviors team to come to their fancy training facility in the desert to train under his idol, star quarterback Isaiah White. During the intense training, Cameron discovers Isaiah and the team’s owners have a dark secret.

HIM is a vivid piece of entertainment. It has many intense scenes, especially scenes involving Isaiah, who’s played with insane wild abandon by Marlon Wayans. Eventually, the movie becomes a fight against demonic evil and includes some allusions to Christianity and sacrifice. However, HIM goes over the top multiple times, especially at the end, which turns into a bloodfest. The movie also has lots of strong foul language, bloody violence where the hero goes beyond just defending himself, and glimpses of explicit nudity and implied orgiastic sex. So, all in all, HIM ultimately is excessive and unacceptable.

Content:

(PaPa, CC, O, PC, AP, LLL, VVV, SS, NN, A, DD, M):

Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Mixed pagan worldview with some strong Christian elements, including a positive reference to Scripture, sacrifice and other allegorical content, about a young football player who eventually takes a stand against a demonic cult but when the cult members start to violently come at him, though he mostly acts in self-defense, the violence is still extreme, and he also goes overboard with the violence, though he performs an act of mercy at one point, plus there’s some scary demonic images showing how evil the villains are, but there’s a politically correct theme of white owners of American football franchises taking advantage of black players;

Foul Language:

At least 123 obscenities (including at least 82 “f” words), two strong profanities mentioning the name of Jesus Christ, nine GD profanities, two light profanities, and man vomits after an intense training session;

Violence:

Lots of very strong and strong bloody violence includes man is hit in the face multiple times by a football until his face is all bloody, quarterback breaks his leg during a game with bone sticking out, young football player is hit from behind in the head by a primitive ax or a tomahawk, bloody fight to the death between man and his idol, deadly bloody fight between man and demonic villains trying to kill him (he has a sword to protect himself), crazy woman attacks a man, and another man kills her, some football violence, and rookie football player is injected several times by team physician;

Sex:

An implied orgy scene with nude bodies writhing;

Nudity:

Images of upper and rear nudity, especially in implied orgy scene;

Alcohol Use:

Some alcohol use;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

Man smokes cigar in one or two scenes, and apparent marijuana smoking in one scene; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Team tries to force man to sign a contract, and the signing has demonic connotations, protagonist is deceived.

More Detail:

HIM is a striking, crazy, scary horror thriller about football madness in America, in a story about a young mixed-race football phenom who attends an intense, spooky, brutal training camp being run by a champion quarterback for a team with a dark secret. HIM is a vivid piece of entertainment, with a bloody fight against an evil demonic cult, but it’s over the top and has lots of strong foul language, bloody violence where the hero goes beyond just defending himself, and glimpses of explicit nudity and implied orgiastic sex.

The movie opens with a young mixed-race child, Cameron Cade, watching his football hero, Isaiah White, play for The Saviors, a popular professional football team.

Ten years later, Isaiah has miraculously recovered from his injury to win eight championship rings for The Saviors. Meanwhile, Cameron Cade has become the new football phenom in the college draft. There’s speculation that Cameron could be even better than Isiaih and that he could take over Isaiah’s spot as quarterback for The Saviors. People are also wondering whether Isaiah may decide to retire.

One night, however, Cameron is walking alone on an empty football field near the endzone. Suddenly, a strange costumed figure with horns comes up behind Cameron and hits him on the head with what looks like a primitive ax or tomahawk. Months later, Cameron is still recovering and still has staples in his head from where he was hit. The doctor advises Cameron to skip the new football season until he recovers more fully.

However, over his mother’s objections, Cameron accepts an invitation from The Saviors to come to their fancy training facility in the desert to train under Isaiah. Isaiah is a very intense guy who tells Cameron after he arrives that his motto is Football, Family, then God, not God, Family, Football. However, Cameron also discovers that Isaiah is somewhat of a sadist.

For example, in one training exercise, Isaiah uses an electronic passing machine to feed footballs to Cameron quicker and quicker while Camerin must throw successful passes downfield to some receivers near the endzone of an indoor football field. Meanwhile, another machine throws footballs into the face of another player. The more passes Cameron fails to complete, the more the other player is getting a football flung hard into his face until it’s all bloody.

Eventually, Cameron discovers that Isaiah and The Saviors have a dark secret that puts his very soul in danger.

HIM is a striking, crazy, scary horror thriller. It’s a vivid piece of entertainment. The scenes are intense, especially the scenes involving Isaiah, who’s played with insane wild abandon by Marlon Wayans. Eventually, the movie becomes a fight against demonic evil and includes some allusions to Christianity and sacrifice.

However, HIM goes over the top multiple times, especially at the end, which becomes a bloodfest. The movie also has many strong obscenities and profanities, more than 93. In addition, there’s an implied orgy scene and some explicit nudity. Finally, although the protagonist takes a stand against a demonic cult that uncovers, his efforts to destroy it go somewhat overboard. So, all in all, HIM ultimately is excessive and unacceptable.

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