The final trailer for “Clayface” arrived Wednesday, four weeks ahead of the film’s Oct. 23 theatrical debut. The roughly minute-and-a-half cut expands on Matt Hagen’s disfigurement and his descent into revenge, though the character’s comic-accurate final form remains absent from marketing.
“Clayface” marks the DC Universe’s first horror film and its first R-rated release. Directed by James Watkins, whose credits include “Eden Lake” and the “Speak No Evil” remake, the movie was written by Mike Flanagan, known for “The Haunting of Hill House” and “Midnight Mass.” Tom Rhys Harries stars as Hagen, a Gotham City actor whose disfigurement at the hands of a crime boss sets him on a destructive path after an experimental treatment restores his appearance while unraveling his grip on reality, according to the official synopsis from Warner Bros.
Watkins has said the studio is deliberately keeping Hagen’s final clay-formed state out of trailers and posters to preserve the reveal for theaters. “You don’t want to show the shark,” Watkins said, according to GamesRadar+.
Harries has previewed the design in blunter terms. “It’s [expletive] sick,” the actor said of the character’s final form, per ComicBookMovie.com.
DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn has previously called “Clayface” a “complete horror film.” The movie is set largely apart from the broader DCU slate, with Batman absent from the story, though it is expected to tie into the character’s later appearance in “Creature Commandos.”
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