The Netflix film “KPop Demon Hunters” has slayed the world.
The animated film about Huntr/x — a female K-pop trio who are secret guardians of the world, battling rival boy band the Saja Boys — quickly became Netflix’s most popular movie ever. Three months after its release, it remains near the top of the Netflix top global top 10 while seven of its song dominate the Billboard Hot 100. “Golden” has been No.1 for six weeks.
Chris Appelhans, a co-director for the film, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in a recent interview that the film’s massive success has been nothing short of “surreal.”
“It’s a little trippy,” he said. “It’s sort of meta. In the movie, there’s this competition between Huntr/x and Saja Boys for the top spot on the charts. For the past couple of months, it’s actuall