Clayface: Teaser and Horror Soul for the DC Villain
Story follows the fall of a rising actor into a monstrous form
The first teaser for Clayface leaves no room for comfortable interpretations: Matt Hagen's transformation is brutal and graphic. Expected in Italian cinemas on October 22, 2026, the project marks a clear change of pace for the DC universe, which here unreservedly embraces body horror.
Tom Rhys Harries plays the protagonist, at the center of a story that follows the fall of a rising actor into a monstrous and unstable form. Not just an aesthetic mutation but a progressive loss of identity, in line with a narrative that intertwines obsession, ambition, and self-destruction.
An Origin Rewritten Between Cinema and Nightmare
James Watkins directs, while the screenplay is penned by Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini. A pairing that explains the chosen tone: closer to distressing experiments like David Cronenberg's The Fly than to classic comic book movies.
The film is presented as one of the riskiest operations by DC Studios, led by James Gunn and Peter Safran. Not a simple origin story but an extreme reinterpretation of a villain tied to the world of Batman.
The cast also includes Naomi Ackie, David Dencik, and Eddie Marsan, supporting a project that focuses more on atmosphere than traditional spectacle.