Stacy Lee Kong Special to The Globe and Mail Published 30 seconds ago
Ellis Lo sings and dances along to a scene from her favourite movie, Kpop Demon Hunters.
When cake decorator Joey Lo took her seven-year-old daughter, Ellis, to a friend’s barbecue over the summer, she didn’t know she’d be kicking off a months-long obsession with KPop Demon Hunters , the ultra-popular K-pop inspired animated feature that has steadily grown in popularity, not just in Canada but around the world.
“Our friend was playing the music videos on loop on the TV and we all gravitated to it,” Joey Lo says. “We went home and watched the movie after that.”
And they haven’t stopped watching, or listening to the soundtrack, or trying to recreate the characters’ dance moves.
There are plenty of reasons why s