The candy-coloured animated musical comedy is out on Netflix.
In 2025, Gints Zilbalodis’s low-budget and high-impact Flow won the Animated Feature Oscar, surpassing such heavyweights as Wild Robot and Inside Out 2. Might KPop Demon Hunters be that film this year – the one that beats the blockbuster Zootopia 2 and Elio?
KPop Demon Hunters has two Oscar nominations: one for Animated Feature and another for the song Golden. Music is an integral part of the film, about the K-pop girl band Huntrix, whose three members are secretly protecting the world from demons when not packing stadia with swooning fans.
Once upon a time, demons ruled over humans, extracting their souls to propitiate their god Gwi-Ma. Three women managed to break free, using their voices to create a barrier called the Honmoon. Over the centuries, trios of demon hunters have protected the world from their tormentors.
