Where was Below filmed? St. John's, Pouch Cove, Brigus South and the Icy waters of Newfoundland

St. John's – Newfoundland's capital city and the oldest city in North America – served as the primary production and studio base for the series. Its infrastructure, its established film production networks and its proximity to the coastal communities used for location shooting gave the production its operational anchor throughout the four-month shoot.

Pouch Cove – a small coastal community on the northern shore of the Avalon Peninsula, just north of St. John's – was used for on-location seaside shoots.

Brigus South – located along the Irish Loop on the Avalon Peninsula – provided the rugged backdrop for the show's remote fishing town setting. Its cliffside landscape, its narrow coves and its isolation from St. John's give it a character that feels genuinely removed from the world. Brigus itself was a major production hub throughout the shoot, with the production company using the local paint shop for set supplies.

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Harbour Main – another Avalon Peninsula community on Conception Bay – contributed two of the production's most specific location details. The local pub Fureys was used for filming interior scenes. And outside the town, a house was built specifically for the production and towed out from nearby Conception Harbour for the water sequences. One local noted they "built the fish plant right over the front of a whole house – it was a cool set to drive through." A full-scale prop structure was also submerged underwater for a month before filming, allowing it to accumulate a genuine waterlogged decay.

Locals also spotted sets and crew in Conception Harbour and Twillingate – the latter a picturesque island community in Notre Dame Bay, in the island's central north, whose dramatic iceberg-watching coastline and traditional fishing culture make it one of Newfoundland's most visually distinctive communities. Some sets were built specifically for the show and later removed, leaving the communities as they were before the production arrived.

Production workers reportedly pumped artificial fog across the bays to enhance the series' eerie atmosphere – adding the only element that nature occasionally forgot to provide.

Below premieres on Netflix on October 8, 2026.