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

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/clayface-is-horrific-to-watch-for-all-the-right-reasons-review/
- Published: 2026-10-21T19:00:15+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-21T19:41:08+00:00
- Original publisher: Collider
- Original article: https://collider.com/clayface-review-mike-flanagan-james-watkins-dcu/
- Topics: Film

## Key points

- *Clayface* delivers graphic body horror.
- Matt Hagen’s experimental treatment turns him into a shape-shifter.
- The review finds its revenge story conventional.

## Summary

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.

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