A Catholic school dance team’s drug-fueled initiation ritual spirals into town-wide hysteria in The Body, Netflix’s new eight-episode horror series created by Quinn Shephard. The trailer follows new recruit Grace, played by Sofia Wylie, after her initiation goes horribly wrong, leaving the whole community asking what actually happened to her, with the series set to premiere November 11.
Shephard, who previously created the Emmy-nominated Under the Bridge, has described The Body as her most personal project yet, built from her own teenage experiences and pulling tonal influence from several ’90s and Y2K teen horror and coming-of-age films, as well as Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. She’s called the show “gritty camp,” a raunchy teen psychodrama layered with Catholic horror, and said it also works through her own experience of growing up queer and repressed.
The series stars Kristina Bogic as Anya Butler, Sara Boustany as Elise Zakaria, Geena Meszaros as Lisbeth Anderson, Nnamdi Asomugha as Father Franklin, Louisa Krause as Catherine Anderson, Shirley Chen as Maddie Delaney, Jackson Kelly as Leo Anderson, and with Gabby Windey as Coach Miller.
The cast also includes Kyra Pierce as Bailey Bradley, Phallon Pierce as Brit Bradley, Marcel Ruiz as Tyler Santos, Orlando Norman as Steven Maxwell, Ashley Madekwe as Theresa Franklin, and Motell Foster as Michael Franklin, rounded out by Cale Ambrozic, Anna Tierney, Chloe Longname, Sarah Abbott, Emily Roman, Michela Luci, Bella Neuspiel, Julia Lowe, and Christine Solomon.
The Body is produced for North Road by Amy Israel, Peter Chernin, and Josh Stern, alongside Riley Keough, Gina Gammell, and Sacha Ben Harroche for Felix Culpa, with Gammell and Blair Breard also executive producing.
With a premise already pulling from decades of teen horror touchstones, the real test for The Body will be whether its specific blend of Catholic guilt, teenage ritual, and camp horror finds the same cultural foothold as the films that clearly shaped it.
