The First ‘Clayface’ Footage Was Splendidly Disgusting

That Clayface is getting a new DC movie earlier than Batman, Surprise Girl, Aquaman, and the Flash—mainly each single non-Super person within the DC Universe—at first appears bizarre. After all, we’ve all heard how DC Films co-president James Gunn learn a script by the prolific Mike Flanagan and immediately knew he needed to make it. However why? How was it going to work? It’s all onerous to image.

That’s, till you truly see footage, which we now have because of the Warner Bros. panel at CinemaCon 2026 this week. Gunn’s DC co-president, Peter Safran, took the stage to point out the first-ever footage from the DC movie, and it was chilling and gross. It additionally made it a lot clearer why this film is going on earlier than all the remainder.

Within the footage, which has not but made it on-line, we begin with a shot of a person in a hospital mattress. The sunshine is harsh and yellow. His face is totally wrapped in bloody bandages. However his eyes are open. WIDE OPEN. Nearly like he’s taking a look at one thing terrifying. The digital camera slowly pushes in on this man, and we get a number of fast, jarring cuts. Of a face being reduce. Of somebody getting injections. A number of disgusting stuff. Is that this what occurred to this particular person? Is he remembering it? It positive appears that means.

We then go to a montage of footage of a way more good-looking man: Matt Hagen, performed by Tom Rhys Harries. We see him working down the road, by way of neon-lit tunnels, previous a police automotive that claims Gotham Metropolis on it. It’s onerous to know what’s occurring, however mainly, we simply know this man is fearful of one thing and making an attempt to get away from it. The scenes are intercut with the phrases “Look worry within the face.”

Lastly, and most memorably, the final shot of the footage options this man trying completely regular, then placing his hand to his brow and wiping straight down, fully eradicating his face. His face, as you may guess, is clay.

Safran described Clayface as “a riveting horror thriller,” and we obtained all three of these issues from the footage. This film goes to be tousled. And we can not wait.

Written by Mike Flanagan, directed by James Watkins, and starring Harries and Naomi Ackie, Clayface is presently set for launch on October 23.

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