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Based on a story by horror heavyweight Mike Flanagan and directed by James Watkins, Clayface is the latest entry in James Gunn's and Peter Safran's DC Universe, which kicked off with Superman in 2025 and has continued on somewhat unevenly since. Like 2019's Joker, this is a movie about a Batman villain, but without Batman in it.
Clayface is the story of actor Matt Hagen (Tom Rhys Harries), an up-and-coming Hollywood star who is at a career high point thanks to a recent best actor nomination. But while he's out partying one night, he makes the mistake of sleeping with the girlfriend of a Gotham City mob boss (David Dencik) who retaliates by slicing up Hagen's movie star face. Hagen gets a bunch of surgeries which save his life, but they leave him incredibly disfigured, so he hides his face behind a plastic mask.
Without his looks, Hagen's career falls apart. His agency drops him, his money gets stolen by a lawyer, and he's forced to move back to the Narrows of Gotham City, where he grew up and experienced an unhappy childhood. Hagen finds some hope, however, when he learns of an experimental treatment invented by Dr. Caitlyn Corr (Naomi Ackie) involving something called nanocells. At first, the nanocells work their magic and restore Hagen's appearance, but soon his face starts to melt and disfigure, requiring ever more of the treatment.
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