Him

Jordan Peele's "Him" (2025) centers on a faded Black child-star mentor (Marlon Wayans) grooming a talented young Black boy amid supernatural horror in a Hollywood house. It heavily embeds progressive messaging on racial exploitation in entertainment, generational trauma for Black performers, and critiques of white-dominated industry gatekeeping. Identity politics dominate, with diversity casting and social justice themes (e.g., stolen Black talent, systemic abuse) overshadowing plot, echoing Peele's prior race-parable style in Get Out/Nope. Prioritizes messaging over scares.