Kulture Meltdown: Clayface (2026) — "They stole everything from me."
DC goes full body horror, and the Kulture Meltdown asks whether a superhero movie can ever go far enough. Clayface (2026), directed by James Watkins from a Mike Flanagan story, follows Matt Hagen (Tom Rhys Harries), a rising Gotham actor whose ruined face is rebuilt by an experimental treatment that won't hold. Is it baby's first body horror next to The Fly, Videodrome and The Substance? What was lost when Flanagan's script went to another writer and another director? Did this story need a whole movie, or fifteen minutes at the top of a Batman film? The talk also takes in the movie's place in…
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