Netflix’s ‘The Body’ Brings Catholic School Mass Hysteria on Nov. 11: The Trailer, the Cast and Everything We Know
Netflix is about to send a Catholic school dance team straight into the arms of the devil, or at least into the arms of a town that is very sure the devil is involved. The Body , the eight-episode horror-tinged teen series from Under the Bridge filmmaker Quinn Shephard, drops all at once on Wednesday, November 11 . The pitch is simple and nasty: a dance-team initiation goes wrong, the girls who survive it start having prophetic visions, and the community around them tips into full-blown mass hysteria.
That puts the show in a lane horror fans know well, somewhere between Carrie , Jennifer's Body and The Crucible , and it lands at a moment when streaming horror about teenage girls is having a serious run. With three days to go, here is everything confirmed about The Body : the trailer, the cast, the team behind it, how long it has been in the works, and what its arrival says about where Netflix's horror slate is headed.
Watch the Trailer
Netflix released the first full trailer on October 12. It plays like a confession tape: pleated skirts, candlelit rituals, a party that goes somewhere it shouldn't, and adults who look increasingly terrified of the girls they are supposed to be protecting.
The Details: What's Confirmed
- Premiere: Wednesday, November 11, 2026, on Netflix.
- Episodes: eight, all released the same day.
- Format: billed as a limited series and a coming-of-age psychological drama, with a heavy dose of religious horror.
- Creator and showrunner: Quinn Shephard, who also wrote and directed the pilot.
- Production companies: The North Road Company, Chernin Entertainment and Felix Culpa.
- Filming: shot in Canada in late 2025, with locations including Dundas, Ontario.
- Not announced yet: episode runtimes and an official maturity rating.
The core cast is a mix of rising young actors and a few familiar faces. Sofia Wylie plays Grace Franklin, whose fate appears to be the central mystery; Netflix's own synopsis teases the question of what happened to her. Kristina Bogic is Anya Butler, Sara Boustany is Elise Zakaria, Geena Meszaros is Lisbeth Anderson and Shirley Chen is Maddie Delaney. On the adult side, Nnamdi Asomugha plays Father Franklin, Louisa Krause plays Catherine Anderson, and Jackson Kelly plays Leo Anderson.
The recurring cast is deep, too: Kyra and Phallon Pierce as twins Bailey and Brit Bradley, Marcel Ruiz as Tyler Santos, Orlando Norman as Steven Maxwell, Ashley Madekwe as Theresa Franklin and Motell Foster as Michael Franklin. In the most unexpected bit of casting, Gabby Windey, the reality TV personality who won The Traitors , plays the dance team's Coach Miller.
Sofia Wylie plays Grace Franklin. Photo: Sofia Wylie via Wikimedia Commons ( author and license), cropped.
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Who's Behind It
Quinn Shephard
Shephard has been working in front of the camera since she was five, when she appeared in the 2001 drama Harrison's Flowers. TV fans may remember her as Morgan Sanders on CBS's Hostages or as Claire Mahoney on Person of Interest , and she played Coley Taylor in The Miseducation of Cameron Post.
Her filmmaking is where it gets interesting. Her 2017 debut Blame , which she wrote, produced, edited and starred in, premiered at Tribeca, where she became the youngest female director to debut a film at the festival. It sits at 80% on Rotten Tomatoes. She followed it with the social media satire Not Okay for Hulu in 2022, then took on her biggest project yet: Hulu's 2024 true-crime limited series Under the Bridge , which she developed, executive produced, co-wrote and partly directed. That series, starring Riley Keough and Lily Gladstone, holds an 87% Tomatometer score and earned Gladstone a Primetime Emmy nomination for supporting actress in a limited series.
In other words, Shephard has spent nearly a decade circling the same subject: teenage girls, group cruelty and what happens when a community decides who is guilty. The Body looks like the version of that obsession with the supernatural dial turned all the way up.
The producers
The executive producer list is strong. Peter Chernin, Amy Israel and Josh Stern come from The North Road Company, and Chernin Entertainment is already proven in Netflix horror: it produced Leigh Janiak's Fear Street trilogy, which rolled out weekly in July 2021 and scored 84%, 88% and 89% on Rotten Tomatoes. Riley Keough, Gina Gammell and Sacha Ben Harroche come in through Felix Culpa, the company behind Keough and Gammell's War Pony , which won the Caméra d'Or for best first feature at Cannes in 2022. Blair Breard and Shephard also executive produce, and Gammell directs as well.
The writers' room includes Stuti Malhotra, Julian Breece, Catherine Schetina, Lily Houghton, Naledi Jackson and Greta Heinemann, with Shephard writing or co-writing three of the eight episodes.
The cast
Sofia Wylie is the most recognizable of the young leads. She broke out as Buffy Driscoll on Disney Channel's Andi Mack , spent four years as Gina Porter on Disney+'s High School Musical: The Musical: The Series , and played Aggie in Netflix's dark fairy tale The School for Good and Evil. A Catholic horror story is a sharp left turn from the Disney machine, which is exactly why it is worth watching.
Nnamdi Asomugha spent 11 seasons as an NFL cornerback, mostly with the Oakland Raiders, before rebuilding himself as an actor and producer. He starred in and produced Crown Heights and Sylvie's Love , appeared in The Good Nurse , and directed and starred in 2024's The Knife. Louisa Krause brings serious indie credentials: Martha Marcy May Marlene , the lead in season 2 of The Girlfriend Experience , recurring roles on Billions and Ray Donovan , and a part as Sapphire Stagg in 2025's Superman.
Louisa Krause plays Catherine Anderson. Photo: Louisa Krause via Wikimedia Commons ( author and license), cropped.
The Backstory: From Order to Premiere
This has been a fast-moving project by streaming standards. Netflix ordered the series in May 2025, announced in reports from Variety and the streamer's Tudum site. The main cast was revealed in early October 2025, with the recurring players added later that month, and cameras rolled in Ontario before the end of the year. Netflix set the November 11 date and released first-look images on August 11, 2026, then dropped the trailer on October 12. That is roughly 18 months from order to premiere, quick for an eight-episode drama.
There is no book or comic behind it. Shephard has said the show grows out of her own adolescence, and she has been open about her influences: Carrie , Jennifer's Body , Heavenly Creatures , Mean Girls and Arthur Miller's witch-trial play. In Netflix's materials she described the tone as a kind of gritty camp and framed the show around a big idea: "I've always been interested in the idea of girlhood as a religious experience." She has also called it "a raunchy teen psychodrama with a dash of Catholic horror," which might be the most honest logline Netflix has put out all year.
By the Numbers
- 8 episodes, all dropping November 11.
- 8 series regulars and 16 recurring players announced.
- 3 of 8 episodes written or co-written by Shephard.
- 87% : Under the Bridge 's Tomatometer score on Rotten Tomatoes.
- 84-89% : the Rotten Tomatoes range of Chernin's Fear Street trilogy.
- About 18 months from series order (May 2025) to premiere.
No reviews or scores were out as of this writing, so the critical verdict will likely arrive right around launch.
Analysis: What This Really Means
Start with the obvious comparison. Yellowjackets proved that a story about teenage girls, group belief and ritual violence could become one of TV's most-discussed horror shows, and its final season begins November 20 on Paramount+. The Body arrives nine days earlier with a similar engine (a tight-knit team, a shared secret, a slide into something that might be supernatural) and a very different setting. Netflix does not need it to be Yellowjackets. It needs it to catch the audience waiting for Yellowjackets to come back.
The second comparison is Netflix's own. Wednesday showed the streamer that dark, stylish, girl-centered genre TV can be a global monster: within three weeks of release its first season ranked as Netflix's second most-watched English-language series ever. The Body is clearly far less of a mainstream play, with more blood and more sex, but it chases a similar audience, and casting a Disney-bred star like Wylie is a smart bridge to younger viewers. Meanwhile, Chernin's Fear Street is the proof that this production team can deliver teen horror Netflix subscribers actually finish.
The bigger question is tone. Gritty camp is a hard target. Lean too campy and the mass-hysteria story loses its sting; lean too gritty and it becomes another grim prestige drama with a few creepy visions sprinkled on top. Jennifer's Body , one of Shephard's stated influences, is the cautionary and hopeful example at once: misread on release in 2009, now beloved, and reportedly heading for a sequel. Shephard's track record suggests she knows how to handle the social horror of a group turning on one girl. Whether she can make the supernatural side genuinely scary is the open bet.
There's also the format. Netflix is calling this a limited series, which signals a complete story rather than a mystery box built to stretch over five seasons. If it hits, expect the streamer to find a way to come back to this town anyway. Plenty of "limited" shows have found a second season once the numbers came in.
What We Still Don't Know
- Episode runtimes and the official maturity rating.
- Which episodes Gina Gammell and other directors helmed, beyond Shephard's pilot.
- How literally supernatural the visions turn out to be, and what happened to Grace.
- Reviews, which should land around the November 11 premiere.
- Viewership: Netflix's weekly Top 10 data for the show's first days should arrive the following Tuesday.
The Bottom Line
The Body has the pieces: a filmmaker who has been building toward this story her whole career, producers with a Netflix horror hit already on the shelf, a lead making a bold jump away from Disney, and a premise that taps one of horror's richest veins. It is also walking a tonal tightrope that has tripped up plenty of teen horror shows before it. We'll know Wednesday whether it is the next cult favorite or a sleepover watch that's forgotten by Thanksgiving.
Are you binging The Body on day one, or waiting for word of mouth? And which is scarier: possession, or a whole town convinced you're possessed?
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Header photo: Quinn Shephard via Wikimedia Commons ( author and license), cropped with text added.
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