‘Clayface’ Review: DC Comics Horror Movie Is Good, Gross Fun, With No Franchise Homework Required

‘Clayface’ Review: DC Comics Horror Movie Is Good, Gross Fun, With No Franchise Homework Required hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Oct 21, 2026 12:00pm PT ‘Clayface’ Review: DC Comics Horror Movie Is Good, Gross Fun, With No Franchise Homework Required Just a little sharper and smarter in every department than it needs to be, James Watkins’ film may be the third in the supposed DC Universe, but it plays as an enjoyable, unpretentious one-off. By Guy Lodge Plus Icon Guy Lodge Film Critic @guylodge Latest ‘Klara and the Sun’ Review: There’s No Life — Intelligent, Artificial or Otherwise — in Taika Waititi’s Calamitous Android Fantasy 4 days ago Iranian Auteur Majid Majidi Wins Top Prize at Busan Film Festival With ‘Midday Meal’ 6 days ago ‘To Be Ordinary’ Review: A Compassionate, Even-Handed Taiwanese Family Melodrama 7 days ago See All Add us as a Google Preferred Source Comments We are now three movies into the so-called DC Universe — branding that so far doesn’t appear to have cut through to any but the most devoted of nerds.

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Last year’s “Superman” reboot was respectable enough, this summer’s “Supergirl” a bit less so, but the prospect of a larger story world connecting them hardly sets the pulse racing. A comparatively obscure comic-book adaptation, “ Clayface ” is considerably more interesting all round, in large part because it doesn’t yet feel bound to any superhero property.

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Tonally and stylistically, this nasty, gnarly body-horror movie is its own ugly animal; perhaps the characters and conflicts introduced here would pall if given the franchise treatment, but in the context of a single, genre-melding romp, they’re fresh and ickily enjoyable. Rowling Docuseries Set at BBC BBC Denies ‘Celebrity Traitors’ Contender James Acaster Complained Over Competitors’ ‘Macho Banter’: ‘Categorically Untrue’ The character history of Clayface is long and imprecise, taking different names and incarnations through an assortment of DC Comics products over the last 86 years — absolutely zero knowledge of which is required to watch “Clayface.” Mike Flanagan’s story loosely co-opts the villain origin tale behind many of those incarnations — actor with an ax to grind gains shapeshifting abilities — but otherwise starts more or less from scratch.

The film, directed with good humor and a healthy sense of the grotesque by reliable British genre craftsman James Watkins (“Eden Lake,” “Speak No Evil”), is as indebted to cartoonish Nineties horror outings like “Darkman” and “Thinner” as it is to anything in its own direct franchise history. Right down to its grisly practical makeup effects, it’s a pleasing throwback.

Popular on Variety It’s fitting that the role of Matt Hagen, a young actor taken down just as he hits the big time, is cast with a face we don’t yet know by heart. indies like “Effi o Blaenau” and a supporting role in Guy Ritchie’s “The Gentlemen,” the Welsh actor Tom Rhys Harries brings the requisite sandy handsomeness to proceedings, but also an anguished hunger: You can believe he’d do just about anything to regain the chance that has slipped through his fingers once before.

When we meet Matt, being limo-driven to set in the bronzing sunlight of Coast City (that’s DC-speak for Los Angeles), he’s on the verge of becoming a household name, charming the talk-show circuit in the wake of his first Oscar nomination. But he’s still reasonably grounded, spending much of his free time hanging out with less successful actor bestie Corey (Joshua James), and capable of bad behavior that a good publicist wouldn’t countenance — like a nightclub

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