One of Netflix’s biggest hits is on the verge of missing out on a major milestone. Since its release, it has become a massive phenomenon, with the soundtrack generating not only huge streaming numbers but also winning awards at the Oscars and Grammys. Will this Netflix exclusive miss out on an eye-watering achievement that was never achieved on the platform?
The title in question is KPop Demon Hunters, which came out in June 2025. It follows a 3-member all-female Kpop Idol group called Huntr/x, who are also actual demon hunters. Since then, it has become the most-streamed movie on Netflix, with over 541 million viewing hours worldwide, just under Red Notice‘s 454 million. Following its success, a sequel has been confirmed for 2029. But there’s one milestone that KPop Demon Hunters has to reach, one that no other title has ever achieved.
Netflix has released its latest Top 10 rankings, and KPop Demon Hunters sits at number 10, having generated only 6.2 million views, just below Creed, which made its Netflix Top 10 debut. Sitting at the bottom of the charts, there is a chance that this animated feature could miss out on a major milestone: staying in the top 10 for a whole year straight, an achievement that was never obtained by any title on the platform. Only time will tell if KPop Demon Hunters will achieve this feat.
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 To Watch If You Like ‘KPop Demon Hunters’
The sequel to KPop Demon Hunters is scheduled to come out in a few years. So, if you’re after something new to watch during the wait but with a similar premise, there are other titles worth watching.
The first is Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. This four-season anime series came out in 2019 and follows Tanjiro Kamado (Zach Aguilar), who comes home to see his family slaughtered by a demon attack, and his sister, Nezuko (Abby Trott), transformed into a demon. In hopes of finding a way to turn his sister back into a human, he joins the Demon Slayer Corp, a group of fighters that hunt and kill demons. All four seasons have already been released, with the final chapters being adapted through feature films, starting with Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle.
If you’re looking for something that leans more heavily into classic K-drama romance and fantasy, My Demon is also worth watching. The 2023 series follows Do Do-hee (Kim You-jung), a successful heiress who enters into a contract marriage with a demon named Jeong Gu-won (Song Kang), after his supernatural abilities were accidentally transferred to her. Just like KPop Demon Hunters,My Demon is also available on Netflix.
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