Movies like HIM

“HIM (2025) is a 2020s United States folk-horror that relocates athletic aspiration to a secluded celebrity compound and frames rehabilitation as a moral contest. It stages a recuperation-turned-rite between a vulnerable quarterback and his charismatic mentor, using lighting-grammar, high-contrast chiaroscuro and close-subjective framing to literalize bodily fragility. The film argues that celebrity charisma can mask coercive ritual and deliberately leaves audiences with a quiet lingering mistrust that reframes sports stardom as a site of cultic power.”