Holy Night: Demon Hunters [Movie Review]

Holy Night: Demon Hunters [Movie Review] | I wanted to watch this one, but didn't have the time until recently. 

You know there will be some bulldozing and fist-fighting when you see Ma Dong-seok on the poster. 

SYNOPSIS

Holy Night: Demon Hunters (2025) Trivia

• Hangul: 거룩한 밤: 데몬 헌터스
• Starring: Ma Dong-seok, Seohyun, Lee David, Kyung Soo-jin & Jung Ji-so
• Director: Lim Dae-hee
• Producer: Ma Dong-seok
• Production Company: Big Punch Pictures & Nova Film

• Distributed by: Lotte Entertainment

• Release date: April 30, 2025
• Running time: 92 minutes
• Rating: MA
• Country: South Korea
• Language: Korean
• IMDb: 4.7/ 10
• Tomatometer: 79%
• Metascore: NA
• It is Lim Dae-hee's debut film directorial job. 
• Before the film’s release, a prequel webtoon Holy Night: The Zero (Naver Webtoon, Oct 2024) expanded the universe with deeper lore and backstory. 
• It debuted strong in Korea, topping the box office on 933 screens with over 121,000 admissions on day one and climbing past 777,000 viewers by July 2025.

Something dark is brewing beneath the neon lights of modern-day Seoul. It starts with whispers. Then it become ritualistic killings, possessions and unholy ceremonies that soon erupts into full-blown chaos. The police are powerless, the city trembles and all clues point to one sinister source: The Black Mass, a cult obsessed with summoning an ancient demon, Asmodeus.

When reason fails and faith falters, a mysterious trio steps out from the shadows. Known only as Holy Night, they are the last line between humanity and hell.

Leading the charge is Ba Woo, a brawler with fists of steel and a heart weighed down by tragedy. He’s seen evil before and this time, he’s not backing down. Beside him stands Sharon, a serene exorcist whose prayers burn hotter than hellfire. Her unwavering faith is the team’s soul. Completing the trio is Kim Gun, a tech genius and documentarian, who is also the brain who keeps their mission grounded, even as his own family history begins to unravel dark secrets of its own.

Their latest case: Eun-seo, a young girl showing terrifying signs of demonic possession. Her sister, Jung-won, a rational neuropsychiatrist, has exhausted every medical explanation. Desperation drives her to Holy Night and into a nightmare that will challenge everything she believes.

What begins as a rescue spirals into war. As the cult prepares to turn Eun-seo into the vessel for Asmodeus, the trio races against time through desecrated churches and underground cathedrals. Each encounter with the cult’s possessed soldiers chips away at their strength and sanity. Ba Woo wrestles with ghosts of his past, Sharon’s faith wavers and Kim Gun learns his father once served the darkness they now fight.

The final battle is brutal and breathtaking. In a decaying cathedral beneath the city, Ba Woo makes the ultimate sacrifice by letting Asmodeus possess him, only to use the demon’s own power to destroy the summoning circle. The explosion of divine and infernal energy almost kills them all, but it ends the ritual.

But did the Demon truly die — or is it merely waiting, patient and unseen, for its next chance to rise?

MY REVIEW

What I Like:  

• Of course, the action and some joke/ funny moments thrown into the movie. 
• Refreshing to see brawl and brain works in this movie.

What I Don't Like:

• Not so horror, to my liking.  

Will I Watch It Again: I probably would. 

Overall: 4.2/ 5.0

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