Don't Watch the Brilliantly Disgusting Clayface Trailer While You're Eating

DC Studios has released a caller trailer for Clayface, and portion it looks ace cool, I wouldn’t urge watching it portion eating.

The trailer gives america our champion look yet astatine Clayface, the adjacent movie successful James Gunn’s ongoing DC Universe. We get a bully thought of the root communicative for Matt Hagen / Clayface, who undergoes experimental attraction aft helium is near disfigured.

There are a fig of standout moments successful the trailer, but the 1 that’s stuck with maine is erstwhile Hagen is forced to the restroom connected a level due to the fact that his eyelids are melting together. He is truthful hopeless to spot that helium looks similar he’s astir to chopped his ain eyelid skin. Ouch.

But determination are plentifulness much disgusting moments of assemblage horror, which is precisely however it should beryllium for a movie of this kind. Directed by James Watkins from a screenplay by Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini, Clayface is deliberately positioned arsenic a counterpoint to the agleam and breezy Superman and Supergirl films. It presents a nightmarish mentation of Peter Parker discovering his Spider-Man powers, but alternatively of sticking to walls and shooting retired webs, Matt Hagen finds himself successful the unfortunate presumption of coming to presumption with his look falling off.

I volition admit to the imaginable of immoderate assemblage disorder with the merchandise of Clayface, who is precise overmuch a Gotham-based Batman villain. The movie comes retired earlier the precocious delayed The Batman 2, which is not a portion of Gunn’s DCU, alternatively Matt Reeves’ “Batman Epic Crime Saga.” So, don’t expect Robert Pattinson to popular retired from the shadows successful an extremity recognition country to temper Clayface's quest for revenge.

In fact, don’t expect Batman to amusement up astatine each — Gunn has yet to adjacent denote who’s playing his Batman for the upcoming The Brave and the Bold movie, which volition presumably instrumentality spot successful the Gotham we spot successful Clayface. Gunn has insisted helium won’t commencement talking astir it successful immoderate meaningful consciousness until The Batman 2 is retired the door, and close now, that's February 18, 2028.

So, for now, Clayface is thing of an oddity: a chill looking DCU standalone that whitethorn oregon whitethorn not person connections to the events we’ve already seen successful Superman and Supergirl, and volition spot successful adjacent year’s Man of Tomorrow, and the DCU's aboriginal Batman. That’s good by me, due to the fact that if this trailer is thing to spell by, Clayface has much than capable tegument successful the game.

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