Movie -- 2025 -- Netflix
K-Pop Demon Hunters
Rumi, Mira, and Zoey are Huntrix: a K-pop trio who also hunt demons and hold up a barrier called the Honmoon. Rival boy band the Saja Boys are demons in disguise, serving Gwi-Ma. Stylish, loud, and funny -- with soul-eating, scary faces, fight sequences, and a shame story about the patterns Rumi hides.
Not suitable under 8; parental guidance to 11 (demons, soul-eating, shame/identity, fight sequences); ok from 12.
- Not suitable
- Parental guidance
- Ok
GentleGuide scale for sensitive kids. Not an ACCM or Classification Board rating.
About this title
- Classification
- PG
- Length
- 99 minutes
- Consumer advice
- Mild animated violence, themes, injury detail, fantasy themes, and scary scenes
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Before you press play
A loud, glossy animated musical: concert lighting, sword-dance fights, and jokes that go gross-out. Under the hooks, it is about hiding a part of yourself until shame runs the show. Demons drain souls. Gwi-Ma is a flame-face that feeds on guilt. Treat this closer to a PG anxiety-fantasy than a gentle Ghibli.
- Demons and soul-eating
- Hiding who you are
- Shame and identity
- A rival who is not what he seems
- Fight sequences and weapons
- Loud concert sound
What may feel big
An opening of demons feeding on souls; a midair fight with demon crew; Gwi-Ma punishing minions; patterns spreading on Rumi's skin; Celine teaching her to hide; bathhouse combat; shame-voices; Idol Awards betrayal; Rumi asking Celine to end her life; Gwi-Ma's trance, a soul harvest, and Jinu's sacrifice.
4-6. Not a fit. Demon faces, soul-eating, weapons, and shame-as-identity are too much, however catchy the songs.
7-9. Seven is below this scale. Eight and nine need a grown-up, a skip list (opening souls, Gwi-Ma, fights, the Celine despair beat), and volume control. The humour does not cancel the faces.
10-12. Ten and eleven are still parental guidance: they can hold the idol plot and still want skips (soul-drain, Gwi-Ma, the 'end my life' ask, the finale harvest). Twelve is the year this is more often ok; loud K-pop and identity-shame can still sit in the body after the credits.
Triggers in this guide
Counts are how often that theme shows up in the notes -- not when it happens.
- Sadness 3
- Scary Imagery 3
- Loud Noises 1
- Peril 1
- Violence 2
- Relational Conflict 1