Come face to face with the horrors of ‘Clayface’
The DCU is reshaping the rules of a host of classic legacy characters, and following 2025’s Superman, and the soon-to-be-released Supergirl, we’re now about to take a sharp turn to the shadows with the arrival of Clayface, a hard-hitting piece of body horror dread that offers up imaginable oozing scares.
Here’s the official synopsis:
Here’s the official synopsis:
“Clayface” unravels one man’s horrifying descent from rising Hollywood star to revenge-filled monster in a story that explores the loss of one’s identity and humanity, corrosive love, and the dark underbelly of scientific ambition.
Directed by James Watkins directs from a screenplay by Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini, Clayface is set to tell the thus far untold story of one of Gotham City’s most legendary, and tragic figures, Clayface, with the creative team bringing an edgy new sci-fi horror style to the premise, along with a gritty, in-your-face noir element that creeps in on the idea of dreams turning into nightmare, and just how brutal beauty can cut.
Rising star Tom Rhys Harries steps into the role of aspiring actor Matt Hagen, who thanks to his shocking good looks is on the precipice of greatness, until he runs afoul of a nasty gangster, and is left mutilated, leading him into the arms of fringe scientist Dr. Caitlin Bates (Naomi Ackie), whose character has been described as an almost ‘Elizabeth Holmes type figure’, and offers him a desperate cure that leads him down a path of literal horrors as he exacts a cruel and very personal revenge.
The Batman mythos has long lead to some of the most intriguing villains as a part of the ‘Rogues Gallery’, and Clayface is no exception, and what we see here in this origin story is not only a radically different framing of classic Batman character, but also a showcase that this new DCU is not afraid to push the boundaries or change things up, and with a filmmaker as innovative as Watkins in the director’s chair, we’ll be in for something genuinely scary, and a ‘superhero’ film that will no doubt seriously unnerve it’s audience in the best way possible.
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Get ready to embrace the horrors, and look fear right in the eye when Clayface arrives in cinemas on October 22 just in time for Halloween.
Image: Warner Brothers Pictures
