‘Clayface’ Is Horrific To Watch for All the Right Reasons | Review

DC’s first horror film, *Clayface*, embraces graphic body horror as Hollywood actor Matt Hagen’s face and body melt, stretch and mutate after an experimental treatment. The review finds the film effective as a deliberately repulsive spectacle, though its conventional revenge plot is less compelling.

Tom Rhys Harries plays Hagen, whose career collapses after a mobster disfigures him. He turns to Dr Catelyn Corr, played by Naomi Ackie, whose experimental nanotechnology initially restores his appearance but transforms him into a shape-shifting, nearly invulnerable creature. The review praises the film’s gruesome effects while saying it falters when it tries to be more than a monster film.