Football is like a religion in America. That’s a juicy premise for a horror movie that conflates one with the other. But just as the most clever play on paper can get botched by the 11 players on the field, Him fumbles a solid premise with a tedious, one-note execution that delivers very few scares and zero insights into either of its central subjects.

The Biblical imagery starts immediately and never lets up. Little Cameron Cade, cross dangling from his neck, grows up in a family obsessed with the San Antonio Saviors, one of the top teams in the “USFF.” The Cade home contains what might be described as an altar to the football gods, chief among them the Saviors’ star quarterback Isaiah White ( Marlon Wayans ). After Isaiah wins a big game at the cost of a gruesome leg injury, Cam’

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