{"id":2040807,"date":"2025-09-22T11:15:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2040807"},"modified":"2025-09-22T11:15:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:15:39","slug":"horror-movie-star-claims-new-film-is-ahead-of-the-curve-despite-negative-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/horror-movie-star-claims-new-film-is-ahead-of-the-curve-despite-negative-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Horror movie star claims new film is \u2018ahead of the curve\u2019 despite negative reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Marlon Wayans<\/a> has encouraged fans to go and see his new horror film Him<\/a> despite it receiving overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics.<\/p>\n

The film, which Get Out\u2019s Jordan Peele<\/a> produces, currently has a score of just 28 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> and reportedly earned just $13.5m (\u00a310m) at the box office<\/a>, against a budget of $27m.<\/p>\n

Wayans, who stars as the film\u2019s antagonist, Isaiah White, has since taken to Instagram to implore people to see the film, claiming that it is \u201cahead of the curve\u201d.<\/p>\n

Sharing a post that featured screenshots of the negative scores of his other films, such as White Chicks and Scary Movie, Wayans wrote: \u201cI respect critics. Their job is to critique. I respect their work. It shapes our industry. But an opinion does not always mean it\u2019s everyone\u2019s opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Marlon<\/span><\/div>\n

Marlon Wayans, left, and Tyriq Withers in \u2018Him\u2019 (Universal Pictures)<\/p>\n

\u201cSome movies are ahead of the curve,\u201d he added. \u201cInnovation is not always embraced and art is to be interpreted and it\u2019s subjective. I\u2019ve had a career of making classic movies that weren\u2019t critically received and those movies went on to be CLASSICS. So don\u2019t take anyone\u2019s opinion just go see for yourself. Love to all. Him in theatres now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 53-year-old has since shared numerous positive reviews that fans have posted, with some calling it \u201cinspirational\u201d and the \u201cbest piece of visual storytelling\u201d they\u2019d seen in a long time.<\/p>\n

In another post, Wayans responded to a headline about his comments, saying that it wasn\u2019t a \u201cclap back\u201d at critics but was a \u201cperspective\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"Marlon<\/span><\/div>\n

Marlon Wayans says he was providing a ‘perspective’ in response to negative reviews (Marlon Wayans\/ Instagram)<\/p>\n

Produced by Peele\u2019s Monkeypaw production company and directed by Justin Tipping, Him is about a promising young quarterback (Tyriq Withers) who is invited to train with a veteran (Wayans) at an isolated compound but soon discovers that something much darker is at play.<\/p>\n

The film finished second overall at the North American box office over the weekend, trailing behind anime Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle<\/a>, which opened with a huge $70m box office earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Him was also nearly upstaged by another horror, The Conjuring: Last Rights, which made an estimated $13m in its third weekend. With a global total of $400 million, it\u2019s now the biggest film in the Conjuring universe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marlon Wayans has encouraged fans to go and see his new horror film Him despite it receiving overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics. The film, which Get Out\u2019s Jordan Peele produces, currently has a score of just 28 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes and reportedly earned just $13.5m (\u00a310m) at the box office, against a budget […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2040808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[329323,340432,315770,311778,320249,363129,320410],"class_list":["post-2040807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-horror-film","tag-isaiah-white","tag-jordan-peele","tag-marlon-wayans","tag-rotten-tomatoes","tag-tyriq-withers","tag-universal-pictures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Horror-movie-star-claims-new-film-is-\u2018ahead-of-the.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2040807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2040808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2040807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2040807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2040807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}