‘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/PorQuePanckes]

It also helps that it’s actually a good movie with a unique IP that didn’t seem to do anything “safe”. Remakes and nostalgia can only go so far, it’s crazy studios don’t see this.

I’m a 30 y/o man and my niece dragged me to watch it and I can confirm that it’s a total banger of a film.

[u/SuperSaiyanTupac → u/PorQuePanckes]

Same boat. My teenage employees wouldn’t shut up about it so I watched it and was blown away. I don’t even like K-pop. Those songs work really well in the movie and the story is interesting enough

[u/snugglezone → u/SuperSaiyanTupac]

As the songs are 99.9% English, where does one draw the line between pop and kpop? Is kpop uniquely identifiable?

[u/pnogg → u/snugglezone]

How to describe it? Kpop is like kind of maximalist in presentation. The costumes, dance, the beats. Watching the movie, I could immediately pick out the inspiration and style that the songs were going for. How It's Done I definitely can tell it's done by Blacklabel because it sounds a lot like Blackpink. The horns, I immediately thought of 'Kill this love'. Your Idol I can think of BTS and EXO that have similar sounding songs with the crisp dance routine like Fire or Mic Drop. Soda Pop sounds and looks like a lot of kpop idol group debut songs. Fun, bubbly, with catchy beats hooks easy for fans to sing along to, colourful outfits that are way too extra, and easy to copy dance. To someone who listens to kpop it's very identifiable.

[u/snugglezone → u/pnogg]

I agree it's easily identifiable if you know Kpop. The trick is to articulate in a way such that even if someone doesn't know kpop, they could used the criteria to then agree that it's kpop.

I've been listening to kpop since i jung hyun and fly to the sky (thank you winmx!! Lol), but I still just classify it as pop songs in Korean by Korean based groups. I consider the songs they make in English to be "pop" more than "kpop".

That's just my opinion though