It has been a full year since KPop Demon Hunters debuted on Netflix, and the animated hit has just achieved a major first for the streaming platform. Since its release, the film has grown into a global phenomenon, earning recognition from both the Grammys and the Academy. With a sequel already in development, KPop Demon Hunters continues to make its mark and expand its legacy on Netflix.
KPop Demon Hunters follows a K-pop idol group called Huntr/x, which consists of Rumi (Arden Cho/Ejae), Mira (May Hong/Audrey Nuna), and Zoey (Ji-young Yoo/Rei Ami). Alongside their K-pop career, they’re also demon hunters whose singing creates a barrier called the Honmoon. Tired of his plans getting thwarted, the demon king, Gwi-Ma (Lee Byung-hun), agrees to follow a plan made by one of his demons, Jinu (Ahn Hyo-seop/Andrew Choi), to form a demon boy band and use the fans against Huntr/x. Since its release, KPop Demon Hunters has become a massive phenomenon, earning a 91% Certified Fresh critics’ score and a 99% Verified Hot audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, plus billions of streams on Spotify. But now, the movie has a new record under its belt.
Since its Netflix debut, KPop Demon Hunters has become the most-streamed movie on the platform, with over 541 million watched hours, surpassing Red Notice‘s 454 million. But recently, not only has KPop Demon Hunters become the most viewed movie on the platform, but it has also become the first title for a movie or TV show to stay on the Top 10 charts for a year straight. After last week’s streaming performance, where it sat at the bottom of the charts, this week’s results showed a massive push, especially as Netflix has been promoting the 1-year anniversary of the film. Now, KPop Demon Hunters sits at #6 on Netflix’s Top 10 Movies Global Overview, generating 3.6 million views, sitting between Fast Charlie and David, thus cementing its 52nd week on the charts, a first for the platform that no other title has achieved.
Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture Quiz Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie? Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country
Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be — and what it can do to you. One of them is the film that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.
Parasite
Everything Everywhere
Oppenheimer
Birdman
No Country for Old Men
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What kind of film experience do you actually want? The best movies don’t just entertain — they leave something behind.
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Which idea grabs you most in a film? Great films are driven by a central obsession. What’s yours?
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How do you like your story told? Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.
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What makes a truly great antagonist? The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?
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What do you want from a film’s ending? The final note is the one that lingers. What do you want it to sound like?
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Which setting pulls you in most? Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what’s even possible.
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What cinematic craft impresses you most? Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.
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What kind of main character do you root for? The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.
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How do you feel about a film that takes its time? Pace is a choice. Some films sprint; others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately.
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What do you want to feel walking out of the cinema? The best films leave a mark. What kind of mark do you want?
The Academy Has Decided Your Perfect Film Is…
Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.
Parasite
You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it’s ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn’t want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it’s about.
Oppenheimer
You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.
Birdman
You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it’s about. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor’s ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn’t be possible. Michael Keaton’s performance and Emmanuel Lubezki’s restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.
No Country for Old Men
You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.
What’s Next for ‘KPop Demon Hunters’?
Following the success of KPop Demon Hunters, a sequel has been confirmed and is scheduled for release in 2029. At the moment, the plot for the next installment has yet to be revealed, but its creator, Maggie Kang, shared that if she got the chance to work on a follow-up, it would address some of the unanswered questions the first movie left behind. Additionally, last month it was announced that a KPop Demon Hunters World Tour would take place, bringing Huntr/x’s music to real stages. Tour dates and locations have yet to be announced, and it has not been revealed whether Huntr/x’s singing voices will be part of the performance, or whether the Saja Boys will be involved as well.
KPop Demon Hunters is available to stream on Netflix. Follow Collider for more updates.
