Clayface Has the Potential to Be One of the Best DC Movies Ever Made

A new trailer for Clayface was recently released, and my excitement has only grown. This is one of my most anticipated DC movies of all time, and I haven’t been this excited since the The Suicide Squad, one of the few DC films I consider to be one of the best ever made. 

(It sucks how the sequel to Suicide Squad did so bad in the box office, but I’m at least thankful it got a massive cult following. It’s massively underappreciated, and I think it has to do with how bad the first film was).

Clayface appears to be the first ‘horror’ movie for the DC franchise. I wouldn’t consider Joker a horror movie, but it is seen as one of the darkest films in the DC universe. It appears that Clayface is following the same path, focusing on the origin story of a super villain. 

From the research I have done online, fans claim that the movie is going to be following another origin story of Clayface, from an old school cartoon. An actor named Matt Hagen is making it into the spotlight in Hollywood, and while he is experiencing the rush of fame, he is betrayed in the worst way imaginable. 

In the movie’s version, (I have no idea why he becomes Clayface in the original cartoon), he is ambushed by a group of men, and they purposely disfigure his face, the main thing that he idolized, a symbol that got him in Hollywood. Now he wears a mask to cover his face, ashamed of what happened to him. He is desperate to be put back in the spotlight, and he meets a random young woman, who offers to conduct an experiment on him. Matt agrees, beyond desperate to get back his old life. 

At first, it looks like it worked, and now his face is back to normal. 

Until he starts to experience the side effects. 

While on an airplane, Matt starts to rub at his face, realizing that his eyes are starting to morph, no longer resembling human eyes. Matt panics, and runs to the bathroom, preparing to use scissors on himself to somehow alter this change. The trailer only gets worse from here, showing multiple scenes of Matt going through body horror transformations. 

He later runs into the same young woman who conducted the experiment on him, and she warns him that perhaps his anger towards the people who destroyed his career is haunting him, and his body is reacting to this anger within him. 

Matt then states that he wants to take revenge on the people who scarred his face, hinting that he will go off the deep end, falling into his villain arc. I assume like the Joker from 2019, I’m going to feel sorry for the guy, and then I’m going to hate him later. 

There is no excuse to become a monster, but I guess some people truly snap inside, turning into a completely different person. In Matt’s unfortunate case, that is 100% going to happen to the guy. 

The trailer ends with Matt showing his true form off screen towards the woman who helped him, and I have a bad feeling that things won’t end well for her. Most likely she will be killed by Matt, as he embraces his true monster self. 

I’m so excited for this movie. 

I’m going to be there for the first couple days for this film, and I’m so happy that DC is now tackling ‘horror movies.’ This is where DC should start aiming for, to make them stand out among Hollywood. 

If Marvel refuses to leave behind their repetitive storylines, then DC has a chance!

Thank you for reading!

Emy Quinn