Shows Like Netflix’s ‘The Body’ for Viewers Craving Teen Psychodrama and Religious Dread
Viewers who have finished ‘The Body’ on Netflix are looking for shows like ‘The Body’ that carry the same mix of teen psychodrama and religious horror. The series follows an all girls Catholic school dance team whose Halloween initiation ritual sets off prophetic visions and mass hysteria across the community.
Creator Quinn Shephard told Netflix Tudum that she drew on favorite teen movies and erotic thrillers from the nineties and early 2000s, along with a long fixation on The Crucible. The picks below echo different parts of that mix, from occult rituals and secret filled schools to small towns that turn on themselves.
‘Yellowjackets’
A high school soccer team survives a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness and turns to increasingly drastic tactics to stay alive. The story runs across two timelines that follow the teen and adult versions of the survivors. Where ‘The Body’ leans on visions, this one leans on feral survival and fractured loyalties.
‘Devil in Ohio’
A distressed teenager is found on a country road with religious symbols carved into her skin, and a psychiatrist takes her in while authorities look for a foster home. As the doctor learns about the devil worshipping cult the girl grew up in, she starts to doubt her decision. It suits viewers who responded most to the religious horror in ‘The Body’.
‘Midnight Mass’
An isolated island community sees miraculous events and frightening omens after a charismatic young priest arrives. The tone is more solemn than a teen psychodrama, but the focus on faith and collective belief is familiar. It turns community faith into horror and examines how mass belief takes hold.
‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’
A half witch and half mortal teenager approaches her sixteenth birthday while facing supernatural threats to her family and the human world. The story pairs occult ceremonies and demonic pacts with teenage rebellion and school based cliques, which mirrors the unholy desires and rites in ‘The Body’.
‘Dare Me’
A small town cheerleading squad is pulled into a dangerous power struggle when a new coach arrives and old relationships start to fracture. With the paranormal stripped away, the focus shifts to toxic loyalty and ambition within a competitive female team. It works as a grounded companion to the squad politics of ‘The Body’.
‘Elite’
This Spanish drama follows students at Las Encinas, a school for the privileged youth of wealthy families. The first season centers on three working class students who receive scholarships after a deadly accident. Netflix’s own recommendation notes that the Lions could learn something about partying and romantic entanglements from these teens.
‘Tiny Pretty Things’
A young dancer receives a late offer from a prestigious ballet school in Chicago and learns that she was invited because another dancer fell from a roof, or perhaps was pushed. The series matches the physical intensity, competitive performance atmosphere and secrets that define ‘The Body’.
‘The Midnight Club’
At a hospice for terminally ill young adults, patients gather each night to trade frightening stories and agree that whoever dies first will send the others a sign. It shares the somber atmosphere, youth driven rituals and eerie brush with the supernatural found in ‘The Body’.
‘A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder’
Emma Myers stars as a teenager in a small English town who suspects that a missing persons case from years earlier was pinned on the wrong person. Her school project becomes a new investigation that upsets the families involved and puts her in danger. It is based on the young adult novels by Holly Jackson, and its slow reveal of buried truths echoes the unsettling revelations in ‘The Body’.
‘Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen’
Created by Haley Z. Boston, this atmospheric horror series sends a bride to be and her fiancé to his family’s lavish home for an intimate wedding. The locals behave strangely and the relatives are creepily eccentric, and her unease grows as she links her own family’s cryptic past to coming doom. The Duffer Brothers serve as executive producers. For anyone still thinking about the Lions and their ritual gone wrong in ‘The Body’, the comments are the place to say which of these companion watches comes closest to that blend of party chaos and Catholic dread.
