Clayface: honorable step aside from horror for the DC universe (review)

After Superman and Supergirl, the DCU heads to Gotham with this nice body horror attempt centered on the character of Clayface, who sorely lacks nerve but not humanity.

Joker + The Substance. This is undoubtedly the equation which governed the creation of Clayfacethird film in the new DC Universe headed by James Gunn, after a Superman with youthful energy and a Supergirl unanimously considered to be an intergalactic crust. Focus, therefore, on theorigin story of a historical antagonist of Batman (that’s for the side Joker), intertwined with a fable body horror in the world of cinema (for the dose of The Substance).

Clayface tells the misadventures of Matt Hagen, a rising Hollywood actor (Tom Rhys Harries), who finds himself horribly disfigured after an unfortunate encounter with the boss of Gotham’s underworld. Abandoned by his agents and his loved ones, lonely and desperate, Matt will decide to try the experimental remedy invented by a scientist (Naomi Ackie), who promises him that he will quickly regain his good looks. But the experience turns into disaster: Matt gradually transforms into “Clay Mouth”, a shape-shifting creature with terrible homicidal impulses…