KPop Demon Hunters

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Not suitable under 10; parental guidance to 11 (animated violence, injury, scary scenes, themes)

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This topic contains:

  • overall comments and recommendations
  • details of classification and consumer advice lines for KPop Demon Hunters
  • a review of KPop Demon Hunters completed by the Australian Council on Children and the Media (ACCM) on 8 July 2025.

Overall comments and recommendations

Children under 10 Not suitable due to animated violence, injury, scary scenes and themes.
Children aged 10–11 Parental guidance recommended due to animated violence, injury, scary scenes and themes.
Children aged 12 and over Ok for this age group.

About the movie

This section contains details about the movie, including its classification by the Australian Government Classification Board and the associated consumer advice lines. Other classification advice (OC) is provided where the Australian film classification is not available.

Name of movie: KPop Demon Hunters
Classification: PG
Consumer advice lines: Mild animated violence, themes, injury detail, fantasy themes, and scary scenes
Length: 99 minutes

ACCM review

This review of the movie contains the following information:

A synopsis of the story

Korean pop stars Rumi (voiced by Arden Cho), Mira (voiced by May Hong) and Zoey (voiced by Ji-young Yoo), in the girl-band Huntrix, are tasked with not only maintaining global fame but also saving the world from the demon king Gwi-Ma (voiced by Lee Byung-hun) and his minions. However, the huntresses are stopped in their tracks when a demon boy-band, headed by the handsome Jinu (voiced by Ahn Hyo-seop), takes the world stage and hijacks their fans.

Will the girls be able to come together and save the world from demon-kind before it is too late?

Themesinfo

Children and adolescents may react adversely at different ages to themes of crime, suicide, drug and alcohol dependence, death, serious illness, family breakdown, death or separation from a parent, animal distress or cruelty to animals, children as victims, natural disasters and racism. Occasionally reviews may also signal themes that some parents may simply wish to know about.

Good vs Evil; Demons; Positive impact of music; Complex family dynamics; Violence and Death; Shame; Cultural diversity.

Use of violenceinfo

Research shows that children are at risk of learning that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution when violence is glamourised, performed by an attractive hero, successful, has few real life consequences, is set in a comic context and / or is mostly perpetrated by male characters with female victims, or by one race against another.

Repeated exposure to violent content can reinforce the message that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution. Repeated exposure also increases the risks that children will become desensitised to the use of violence in real life or develop an exaggerated view about the prevalence and likelihood of violence in their own world.

There is some violence in this movie, including:

  • There are many fight scenes throughout the film. Rumi and her friends have a variety of weapons, including swords, daggers and other blades, and are shown in hand-to-hand combat, wrestling, stabbing, slashing and killing demons as they are getting attacked.
  • When the demons are killed, they turn to dust so their bodies are not seen.
  • A character yells at her friend, upset that she has been lying to them.
  • Gwi-Ma controls the demons by tapping in to their guilt and shame. He is often verbally berating them, saying things like they “don’t deserve a family” and are “too much” and “not enough”.
  • Gwi-Ma berates the demons further, calling them “weak, pathetic and useless”, after killing one of his demon minions.
  • Jinu sacrifices himself to save Rumi, giving her his soul, before turning into dust and dying.

Material that may scare or disturb children

Under fiveinfo

Children under five are most likely to be frightened by scary visual images, such as monsters, physical transformations.

In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children under the age of five, including the following:

  • The demons throughout the movie are very scary or creepy-looking.
  • Demons with scary faces suck blue, orb-like souls out of humans from behind.
  • There is a large, blue, cat-like tiger with glowing yellow eyes.
  • ‘Humans’ transform into scary-looking demons, before attacking the main characters.
  • In a number of scenes, Rumi, Mira and Zoey’s facial expressions distort in a cartoonish, exaggerated way.
  • Gwi-Ma gets bigger and tries to kill Rumi, with a large mouth and scary-looking teeth.

Aged five to eightinfo

Children aged five to eight will also be frightened by scary visual images and will also be disturbed by depictions of the death of a parent, a child abandoned or separated from parents, children or animals being hurt or threatened and / or natural disasters.

In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes and scary visual images, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children aged five to eight, including the following:

  • Characters mention the death of Rumi’s mother, and how Rumi must hide her marks from the world.
  • The ground is shown shaking and splitting open several times, with demons spilling out and attacking human characters.
  • Rumi and her friends are fighting demons while their plane is breaking apart and crashing.

Aged eight to thirteeninfo

Children aged eight to thirteen are most likely to be frightened by realistic threats and dangers, violence or threat of violence and / or stories in which children are hurt or threatened.

In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children aged eight to thirteen, including the following:

  • Rumi holds out her sword and asks her maternal figure to kill her; before crying and asking why she couldn’t accept and love her as she is.
  • Rumi is visibly distressed. She falls to her knees, crying over her marks reaching her voice. She screams in frustration and her voice sounds demonic.
  • Rumi begs her friends to not leave her, sobbing, then runs away after her voice turns demonic.
  • Rumi expresses that she feels as if she is a mistake, and has been since she was born.
  • It is revealed that a character betrayed his family in order to have a better life, leaving them to die.

Thirteen and overinfo

Children over the age of thirteen are most likely to be frightened by realistic physical harm or threats, molestation or sexual assault and / or threats from aliens or the occult.

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Product placement

  • None noted.

Sexual references

There are some sexual references in this movie, including:

  • Female characters hypersexualize male characters cartoonishly, with their eyes turning into hearts or popcorn streaming out of their eyes.
  • Male characters flex their muscles and show off their abs to distract the female characters.
  • Rumi and a male character flirt throughout the movie, make intense eye contact, and blush.

Nudity and sexual activity

There is some nudity and sexual activity in this movie, including:

  • One character in the boy-band flexes his muscles so much the buttons pop off his shirt, revealing his bare chest and abs.
  • A man in a bath house wears only a towel around his waist.

Use of substances

  • None noted.

Coarse language

There is some coarse language in this movie, including:

  • Jeez
  • Butts
  • Idiots
  • Jerks.

In a nutshell

KPop Demon Hunters is a fun and fresh family film with a catchy soundtrack and a unique story that is suitable for slightly older children while still being interesting for an older audience. Due to animated violence and injury, as well as scary scenes, this film is best suited for families with children aged 10 and up. Additionally, parental supervision is required until 11 due to heavier themes such as death.

The main messages from this movie are that to get through hard times, you need to accept both the good and bad things about yourself. The movie also emphasises the importance of friendship and relying on each other in times of need.

Values in this movie that parents may wish to reinforce with their children include:

  • Honesty
  • Self-acceptance
  • Relying on friends.

This movie could also give parents the opportunity to discuss with their children attitudes and behaviours, and their real-life consequences, such as:

  • Rumi had lied to her friends for a long time about her demon heritage and was taught to feel ashamed of it. Parents may want to discuss with children the importance of being honest, and embracing all parts of yourself – even the parts you may feel ashamed of.
  • Jinu lies to Rumi about his past and double crosses her, before eventually doing the right thing. Why do you think that Jinu acted this way? How do you think he could have done things differently?
  • Parents may like to consider that particularly sensitive children who struggle with themes of death, shame and guilt may need parental guidance at an older age.