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Clayface Opens Strong as Crawlers Collapses | The Final Cut 10/26/26

Can DC horror carve out a winning place at the box office?

On today’s The Final Cut, Clayface gives us a new reason to examine DC’s theatrical strategy. We also look at a new ranking of America’s best cities for horror fans and the brutal theatrical drop facing Crawlers.

TODAY’S STORIES

1. Clayface and DC’s horror experiment

The latest box-office numbers raise an interesting question: Can a smaller, darker comic-book movie find an audience without the scale of a traditional superhero blockbuster?

2. America’s best cities for horror fans

A new ranking puts Wilmington, North Carolina, at the…

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