Warner Bros. Releases First Trailer for Clayface Movie, Teasing the DCU’s First Body Horror Movie

Warner Bros. has released the first trailer for director James Watkins’ Clayface, giving fans their first taste of the upcoming DCU movie. Clayface stars Tom Rhys Harries as the titular character and Naomi Ackie as Dr. Caitlyn Corr.

Check out the new trailer embedded below:

As the trailer makes plain, this is a decidedly darker shift for the DCU, whose first few projects have included James Gunn’s Superman, Peacemaker Season 2, and the animated series Creature Commandos. As promised, there’s a distinctly body horror-flavored vibe to this one.

While light on plot, the trailer shows us images of Harries’ Matt Hagen, an up-and-coming actor whose career is cut short when a mobster horrifically scars his face. Hagen turns to Corr and her experimental procedure that restores, only to find it comes at a heavy cost. As Hagen transforms into a clay-like monster, he’ll set out to punish those who wronged him. The film seems to draw as much inspiration from Batman: The Animated Series as it does the classic Batman comics.

The cast of Clayface also includes Max Minghella, Eddie Marsan, and David Dencik. The film will hit theaters on October 23, 2026.

Naturally, we have a lot of burning questions surrounding Clayface, not the least of which being whether we’ll see Batman in this Gotham City-based movie. Can it succeed where Sony’s Spider-Man-less Marvel movies have largely failed? We’ll find out later this year.

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