The movie "Saltburn" has become a point of interest for many parents as their children are participating in a TikTok trend that originated from the film. "Saltburn" stars actors Jacob Elordi and Barry Keoghan where they play friends Oliver and Felix. “SALTBURN is the tense, disturbing story of an Oxford student named Oliver, whose infatuation with his classmate, Felix Catton, turns obsessive. The obsession begins when Felix invites Oliver to spend the summer at Saltburn, his family’s manor. Oliver sees the sex-fueled, wealthy lifestyle of the Catton family as a means to improve his circumstances. So, he manipulates them into tearing their own lives apart. Finally, Oliver comes up with a truly devious, evil plan to manipulate Felix’s mother so he can steal the family’s manor for himself,” Movieguide®’s review reads.
Fans of the movie have started a trend on TikTok where they run around their house dancing to the song "Murder on the Dancefloor," where it showcases their wealthy homes. The scene that inspired the trend “shows Oliver dancing naked around the Cattons’ mansion while ‘Murder On The Dancefloor’ plays. The song choice is also apt as Oliver had just killed Felix’s mother, Elspeth (Rosamund Pike) while she was in a coma.”
Reality star Scott Disick recently shared a video to his Instagram where it shows his daughter Penelope, whom he shares with Kourtney Kardashian, participating in the "Saltburn TikTok trend." He captioned the video, "Huge Saturday night 4 me with the girls." In the video, “[Penelope] ran around the house recreating the film’s unforgettable final scene, in which Barry Keoghan’s character dances around a mansion to the Sophie Ellis-Bextor earworm ‘Murder on the Dancefloor,’” PEOPLE reported. A group of Penelope's friends, including cousin North West—Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s daughter—follow Penelope as they video the recreation.
Wile Disick's daughter may not have watched the movie, many parents warn that social media and entertainment can profoundly influence their children. “Just as children spend the first 14 years of their lives learning grammar with respect to the written word, they also need to be taught the grammar of twenty-first-century mass media so that they can think critically about the messages being programmed for them,” Movieguide® founder Dr. Ted Baehr writes.
