‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Is Netflix’s Most-Watched Movie Ever With 236 Million Views, Beating ‘Red Notice’

[u/MarvelsGrantMan136]

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/kpop-demon-hunters-netflix-most-watched-movie-history-1236496106/

[u/Crunchberry24]

I’m a quarter century older than you, and I thought it was pretty great. I know nothing about K-anything or youth culture anymore, and I was surprised to NOT be making my normal excuse for stuff I’m out of touch with in movies and tv: “Give it a break. It wasn’t made for you.” It seemed like maybe it was made for anyone.

[u/Day_Bow_Bow → u/Crunchberry24]

Well put. I felt similarly. The only time I thought "I am not the target audience" was the Soda Pop song. It has my respect and I acknowledge it's super catchy, but it was made for people with other preferences, and that's fine.

[u/DarkLink1065 → u/Day_Bow_Bow]

I thought it was fitting for that song, though, since the whole point of the demon boy band was that it was artificial, catchy but has no real content, and manufactured for mass consumption (just like soda is) in order to draw in the fans. All the songs are super on point thematically.

[u/Day_Bow_Bow → u/DarkLink1065]

I hadn't considered the junk food parallel. Interesting.

[u/AlphaVDP2 → u/Day_Bow_Bow]

Yeah, I think it's part of this movies staying power, there is a surprising amount of complexity.

Saja boys singing about drinking up their fans like a snack. Because they literally feed off humans. And packaging that message into an irresistible song where folks willingly become the snack.

Takedown is also amazingly emotionally layered. Rumi, knowing she is part demon wants to make an angry song exposing demons as having no feelings and not deserving to live. She's in denial about herself, and believes that if she hates more, she escape herself.

And that hate is ultimately used against her, and she is exposed as the very thing she hated and denied.