Every spring, Ma Dong-seok, who has swept the screens and energized the theater district, is going on a spring box office hunt this year as well. It is through the movie ‘The Holy Night: Demon Hunters’.

‘Holy Night: Demon Hunters’, which opens on the 30th, is an occult action film about a city thrown into chaos by an evil-worshiping group, and the dark solvers ‘Holy Night’ Team Bau(Ma Dong-seok), Sharon(Seo Hyun), and Kim Gun(Lee David) with special abilities, who punish the evil group.

Ma Dong-seok has been exploding with strong box office potential every spring, achieving triple 10 million viewers with “The Outlaws 2”(12.69 million viewers) in May 2022, “The Outlaws 3”(10.69 million viewers) in May 2023, and “The Outlaws 4”(11.5 million viewers) in April 2024. He is a true representative actor of South Korea, having set the first record of six 10 million viewers with his films, three of which were achieved in spring theaters. Having garnered the spotlight by greatly invigorating spring theaters, which were traditionally considered an off-season, he has now thrown down the gauntlet with a new occult action film.

In ‘Holy Night: Demon Hunters’, he plays the role of Bow, who hunts demons with rock-like strength and fists. He is a character who has been given special abilities that have never been seen in Ma Dong-seok’s worldview, and he stimulates the audience’s interest endlessly. Attention is focused on how Ma Dong-seok, the fist action icon that no one can stand against, will wipe out the forces of evil with his more powerful and merciless punches.

Director Lim Dae-hee praised Ma Dong-seok for perfectly portraying “a character who is an action icon, a leader, and also has wounds,” further raising expectations for the film.


Reporter Seungmi smlee@donga .com

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