SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for “Clayface,” now playing in theaters.
\n\nBatman fans will have to wait patiently for the next installment in Matt Reeves and Robert Pattinson’s Caped Crusader saga, but they can get a peek at the rebooted DC Universe’s Gotham City in “Clayface.”
\n\n“Clayface” is an R-rated body horror that follows the shape-shifting Batman foe. It blends a supervillain origin story with some stomach-churning scares and comes from horror veterans including director James Watkins and a story by Mike Flanagan. Tom Rhys Harries plays Matt Hagen, an A-list actor who is brutally disfigured by a gangster. With his face ripped up and his career destroyed, Matt turns to an experimental procedure from Dr. Caitlyn Corr (Naomi Ackie), which heals him — but slowly turns him into a clay-covered monster.
\n\nMatt’s blood cells gain the ability to transform and instantly reshape his body into someone else, such as Corr or the gangster who disfigured him or even his own father (played in a quick cameo by Aaron Paul). He loses control of his own body and sanity as these newfound shape-shifting powers help him enact bloody revenge on the mob who ruined his life. In the end…
Original source: https://variety.com/