‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Is the Anti-‘Sinners’
The major difference between these two films—whose soundtracks are competing for Grammys—is where the power in the music is coming from.
Editor’s note: This story features spoilers for KPop Demon Hunters and Sinners.
Since its August premiere on Netflix, the sleeper-hit animated musical KPop Demon Hunters has been compared to the April theatrical live-action juggernaut Sinners. Even the recent Grammy nominations have lumped the music of Sinners and KPop Demon Hunters together in competition for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media and Best Song Written for Visual Media.
It’s apparent why audiences have found overlapping themes in each film. Sinners features a group of Black blues-loving patrons at a juke joint fighting off white vampires who want to steal their songs and their souls in 1932 Mississippi. KPop Demon Hunters is a modern tale of a K-pop girl group who uses the musical genre to hunt demons who want to steal people’s souls.
But while the movies are certainly in conversation with each other, what they’re saying isn’t as aligned as folks seem to believe.
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