Clayface is a 2026 American body horror psychological thriller film based on the eponymous character from DC Comics. Directed by James Watkins from a screenplay by Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini, it is the third film in the DC Universe (DCU). Tom Rhys Harries stars as Matt Hagen / Clayface, alongside Naomi Ackie, David Dencik, Max Minghella, and Eddie Marsan. In the film, after becoming disfigured by a mobster (Dencik), Hagen turns to a scientist (Ackie) who transforms his body into clay to restore his former look. While pursuing revenge, he begins to lose his sanity as he is unable to recognize himself. It is produced by Matt Reeves and Lynn Harris alongside James Gunn and Peter Safran of DC Studios.
Why the popularity?
Clayface, the shape-shifting Batman villain, finally has his own movie, and it opened in theaters just before Halloween.
Tom Rhys Harries plays an actor disfigured by a mobster, who turns to a scientist for a fix that turns his body into clay.
Producer Peter Safran promised no camp, comparing it to the body horror of The Fly, which is a dark turn for a superhero movie.
Harries shot every scene with a torn ACL, and Liverpool's courthouse and library stood in for Gotham.
Thomas H. "Boston" Corbett was an American soldier and milliner who, on April 26, 1865, killed John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln. Continue reading →
