HIM(2025)
2025 · Justin Tipping · 96 min
After suffering a potentially career-ending brain trauma, Cameron Cade receives a lifeline when his hero, legendary eight-time Championship quarterback and cultural megastar Isaiah White, offers to train Cam at Isaiah's isolated compound that he shares with his celebrity influencer wife. But as Cam's training accelerates, Isaiah's charisma begins to curdle into something darker.
Horror · Mystery · Thriller
5.6448 votes
TMDB score
4/5
Intensity
3/5
Gore
4/5
Stays with you
How HIM scares
There's a woozy, pressure-cooker feeling to this one, like your body and mind are both being pushed past their limits at the same time. The pace is more slow-build than jump-scare, with training sequences that start normal and slowly tip into strange, hallucinatory territory. The fear mixes body horror around injury and physical punishment with a creeping dread about loyalty, hero worship, and losing yourself to someone else's control. It's the kind of horror that sits with you afterward rather than making you jump in your seat, good for viewers who like their scares uncomfortable and a little surreal rather than fun and jumpy.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, HIM rates psychological 4/5, visceral 4/5, gore 3/5, lingering effect 4/5, and overall intensity 4/5.
- Psychological: 4 of 5
- Visceral: 4 of 5
- Gore: 3 of 5
- Lingering: 4 of 5
- Intensity: 4 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 30 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 50 of 100 — balanced
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 70 of 100 — leans Disturbing
Intensity over runtime
Shape only — no eventsReveal pacing shapeHide pacing shapeHidden by default — shows where the tension peaks and lets up.
Starts grounded and slowly tightens, building through escalating training sequences into a punishing, chaotic final stretch.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5.
How scary is HIM?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, HIM rates 4/5 — one of the more punishing watches in the catalog, building its fear through slow-burn dread rather than shocks. It works on both fronts, unsettling the mind while going for the body. Expect it to be moderately gory and genuinely disturbing. Expect it to stay with you for days.
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