Oct 26, 2026 · 39 min · 9 segments
Based on a story by Mike Flanagan, Clayface is the DCU’s first foray into horror as James Watkins brings one of Batman’s villains centre stage. Listen as Ashley and Dylan discuss the film, talk about…
Ashley HobleyHost
Dylan BlightHost
I guess first, Dylan, what are your overall thoughts on Clayface going into this?
I don't think I've ever particularly like in the nineties animated show and everything was sort of just played off for a bit of a goof.
Um, I don't have any particular huge lovers like, Oh, Clayface is one of my favorite Batman rogues gallery sort of thing.
I don't, I think he's always like a solid, like, uh, villain ally you know uh the one that comes to mind is uh him and hush like trending to be jason todd to fuck with batman on hush's behalf um but overall it's like his own villain he doesn't really strike me as super interesting it was interesting obviously uh well not obviously i was fortunate enough to go to a press screening for clay face before they gave like uh a comic book version of like anthology of like some of his appearances and included the first appearance of Matt Hagen's version of Clayface because there have been multiple different Clayfaces throughout history or whatever.
And in that version, he gets his powers from a magical pool of water that allows him to go very Clay, have Clay powers for like 48 hours or something like that.
I think the most prominent thing, I'm sorry, Clayface, in recently, there was the Caped Crusader series on Prime Video.
The first season had a lot of singularly focused villains per episode, and he was one of them and had a very similar, kind of a similar thing where he was a working actor who wasn't good enough, in that he was a working actor who wasn't good looking enough, and then does stuff to his face that allows him to become Clayface-like.
I will go first and say, as someone who doesn't watch a lot of horror movies, I thought it was solid.
I don't know that it strikes the right balance between wanting to be a body horror kind of film and the slow burn that it's trying to pull off.
I think there is significant portions of the film where it's just kind of bland or kind of a little bit of a struggle to get through um just as they're building the world and like trying to make this relationship between uh matt hagen and uh naomi aki's character which i don't think really lands i don't think you get the very funny.
I'm like, I'm not sure that's the case because a guy really liking a girl is not that far-fetched.
I guess first, Dylan, what are your overall thoughts on Clayface going into this?
I don't think I've ever particularly like in the nineties animated show and everything was sort of just played off for a bit of a goof.
Um, I don't have any particular huge lovers like, Oh, Clayface is one of my favorite Batman rogues gallery sort of thing.
I don't, I think he's always like a solid, like, uh, villain ally you know uh the one that comes to mind is uh him and hush like trending to be jason todd to fuck with batman on hush's behalf um but overall it's like his own villain he doesn't really strike me as super interesting it was interesting obviously uh well not obviously i was fortunate enough to go to a press screening for clay face before they gave like uh a comic book version of like anthology of like some of his appearances and included the first appearance of Matt Hagen's version of Clayface because there have been multiple different Clayfaces throughout history or whatever.
And in that version, he gets his powers from a magical pool of water that allows him to go very Clay, have Clay powers for like 48 hours or something like that.
I think the most prominent thing, I'm sorry, Clayface, in recently, there was the Caped Crusader series on Prime Video.
The first season had a lot of singularly focused villains per episode, and he was one of them and had a very similar, kind of a similar thing where he was a working actor who wasn't good enough, in that he was a working actor who wasn't good looking enough, and then does stuff to his face that allows him to become Clayface-like.
I will go first and say, as someone who doesn't watch a lot of horror movies, I thought it was solid.
I don't know that it strikes the right balance between wanting to be a body horror kind of film and the slow burn that it's trying to pull off.
I think there is significant portions of the film where it's just kind of bland or kind of a little bit of a struggle to get through um just as they're building the world and like trying to make this relationship between uh matt hagen and uh naomi aki's character which i don't think really lands i don't think you get the very funny.
I'm like, I'm not sure that's the case because a guy really liking a girl is not that far-fetched.
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