Next Netflix #1?
If you thought your high school days were dramatic, just wait until you get a look at Netflix’s latest psychological thriller, The Body. Between creepy religious rituals, possible demonic possessions and a whole lot of teenage secrets, this new series has pretty much everything you’d want in a binge-watch. And after watching the trailer, I’m already convinced it’s going to be Netflix’s next big hit.
The trailer opens with an aerial shot of two teenagers riding their bikes down a quiet country road before a girl asks, “Can a person really contact the devil?” What follows is a series of unsettling classroom scenes, flickering lights and students who seem to be dealing with something far beyond typical teenage drama.
“Lucifer wouldn’t be a true foe if he couldn’t be summoned, would he?” another voice responds. When the girl follows up with, “How would you know if he was around?” she’s met with a chilling answer: “There would be signs.”
Cue nosebleeds, mysterious blackouts and a particularly ominous warning from one student: “Do not be afraid of what you’re about to suffer.”
And that’s all within the first 20 seconds of a trailer that’s just over two minutes long. So, yeah, consider me intrigued (and maybe a little scared).
Netflix’s The Body, which premiered Nov. 11, is set on Halloween 2004 at a Catholic high school in the Northeast. The eight-episode psychological horror drama follows a dance-team initiation ritual that goes horribly wrong.
When team co-captains Anya Butler and Elise Zakaria pressure new recruit Grace Franklin, the niece of the school’s headmaster, Father Sam Franklin, into taking ecstasy at an abandoned building, Grace slips into a coma and begins experiencing prophetic visions.
As those visions spark religious fanaticism and mass hysteria throughout the town, the students scramble to cover their tracks.
The series blends Y2K-era teen thriller nostalgia with supernatural horror, leaving viewers questioning whether the strange events are divine intervention or an elaborate web of teenage deception.
And just when you think the trailer couldn’t get any creepier, it ends with one student Googling, “Is my friend possessed by the devil?”
All eight episodes of The Body are now streaming on Netflix.
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