Clayface - Getting Better as we Go

All right, Clayface, directed by James Watkins, who has brought us the remake of Speak No Evil, Eden Lake, The Woman in Black.

I've seen a couple of those horror films.

Also, I think notably, this movie is written by Mike Flanagan, who is... uh maybe like more of a modern like master of horror in a sense if you've seen any of his work uh he's morally more in the tv space if you've seen uh haunting of uh hill house uh gosh where his other shows um i forget them off the top of my head a black mass i think is one of them uh he also did gerald's game and uh hush if you've seen those in terms of the film space uh but he and dr sleep He is somebody who has a real grasp on the genre right now, but he's mainly more working in the TV space.

I wouldn't go as far as to say I don't feel elements of him in here, but his style is a little bit more hiding in plain sight kind of things.

Which is interesting for a movie like this or a villain like this that can...

I'm not exactly familiar with Clayface too much.

I do know that Batman villains along with Spider-Man villains are probably the most entertaining or at least the most unique in terms of just villains in a... particular heroes uh path and clay face i do know is one of them i don't know how like true to comic book any of this is at all because again i i'm not really a comic book person so i don't really know but i'll always find a origin story at least somewhat interesting and that's the case here there's a lot that this movie doesn't do really all that well um But once it starts to really lean into what it's becoming, I think that's where it succeeds.

But unfortunately, I think most of its issues fall in the front half.

So let's talk a little bit more about Clayface itself.

Starring Tom Rhys-Harris, who I was not familiar with, Naomi Aki, who was in Mickey 17 last year.

Eddie Marsan, Max Minhella, David Denzik, Francesca Corny, Ruby Sear, Will Coben, Joshua James, Jay Curran, among others.

Matt Hagans...

So where to start? Where to start? So, I'm saying that the front half of this movie doesn't work as well, and that, I think, is because it's just trying to...

All right, Clayface, directed by James Watkins, who has brought us the remake of Speak No Evil, Eden Lake, The Woman in Black.

I've seen a couple of those horror films.

Also, I think notably, this movie is written by Mike Flanagan, who is... uh maybe like more of a modern like master of horror in a sense if you've seen any of his work uh he's morally more in the tv space if you've seen uh haunting of uh hill house uh gosh where his other shows um i forget them off the top of my head a black mass i think is one of them uh he also did gerald's game and uh hush if you've seen those in terms of the film space uh but he and dr sleep He is somebody who has a real grasp on the genre right now, but he's mainly more working in the TV space.

I wouldn't go as far as to say I don't feel elements of him in here, but his style is a little bit more hiding in plain sight kind of things.

Which is interesting for a movie like this or a villain like this that can...

I'm not exactly familiar with Clayface too much.

I do know that Batman villains along with Spider-Man villains are probably the most entertaining or at least the most unique in terms of just villains in a... particular heroes uh path and clay face i do know is one of them i don't know how like true to comic book any of this is at all because again i i'm not really a comic book person so i don't really know but i'll always find a origin story at least somewhat interesting and that's the case here there's a lot that this movie doesn't do really all that well um But once it starts to really lean into what it's becoming, I think that's where it succeeds.

But unfortunately, I think most of its issues fall in the front half.

So let's talk a little bit more about Clayface itself.

Starring Tom Rhys-Harris, who I was not familiar with, Naomi Aki, who was in Mickey 17 last year.

Eddie Marsan, Max Minhella, David Denzik, Francesca Corny, Ruby Sear, Will Coben, Joshua James, Jay Curran, among others.

Matt Hagans...

So where to start? Where to start? So, I'm saying that the front half of this movie doesn't work as well, and that, I think, is because it's just trying to...