Jordan Peele’s Most Polarizing Horror Movie Just Dropped on Peacock

Peacock just dropped one of 2025's most hotly argued-over horror movies. It is a sports thriller with a mean streak, it is produced by Jordan Peele, and yes, Marlon Wayans is front and center. If you waited for streaming, the wait is over.

Quick catch-up: what it is and who is in it

• Title: 'Him'
• Now streaming: Peacock (as of today)
• Vibe: Sports horror/thriller about a quarterback whose big break spirals into something much darker
• Star: Marlon Wayans
• Cast: Tyriq Withers, Julia Fox, Tim Heidecker, Jim Jefferies, Guapdad 4000, Tierra Whack
• Director: Justin Tipping
• Writers: Zack Akers and Skip Bronkie (creators of 'Limetown')
• Producers: Ian Cooper, Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld, Jamal M. Watson for Monkeypaw Productions
• Executive producers: David Kern, Kate Oh

So what is 'Him' actually about?

Marlon Wayans plays Cameron Cade, a rising quarterback who has basically built his entire identity around football. Right before the pro league's scouting combine, an obsessed fan attacks him. The result: a brutal head injury that could wreck his career before it even starts.

Enter Isaiah White, the sport's ultimate alpha: an eight-time championship QB and full-on celebrity. He reaches out and offers to rehab and train Cam at his secluded compound, where he lives with his influencer wife, Elsie White. At first, it looks like a miracle fix. Then the hero worship starts to rot. The training gets intense, the mind games creep in, and Cam realizes the price of this lifeline might be way steeper than he thought.

'Just when all seems lost, Cam receives a lifeline when his hero offers to train him at an isolated compound.'

If that setup makes you think 'cult energy by way of training montage,' you are not far off. The movie leans into obsession, fame, and the dangerous power imbalance between idols and the people who want to be them.

Why people are talking about it

'Him' has been dividing audiences since its first screenings, partly because it mixes sports mythology with straight-up psychological horror and uses some very familiar faces in unexpected ways. Wayans playing it serious, plus a cast that includes comedians and musicians (Tim Heidecker, Jim Jefferies, Guapdad 4000, Tierra Whack), gives the whole thing an off-kilter energy. That is by design.

The Peele factor

Jordan Peele did not direct this one, but his fingerprints are on it as a producer through Monkeypaw. If you have followed his track record: he broke out directing 'Get Out' in 2017, followed with 'Us' (2019) and 'Nope' (2022), co-wrote 'Keanu' (2016), the 2021 'Candyman' revival, and 'Wendell & Wild' (2022), and produced all of those. He also produced 'BlacKkKlansman' (2018) and 'Monkey Man' (2024). 'Him' slots into that larger run of projects that twist genre with social fixations and media hype.

Bottom line: if you are curious about the much-discussed sports horror movie with the cult-y mentor angle, it is on Peacock now. Decide for yourself which side of the split you are on.