DC is entering the world of body horror for their Clayface film. Warner Bros. and DC Studios released the first teaser for the movie, showing the grotesque journey that awaits the Batman villain.

The trailer establishes the tone very quickly by showing the title character in a hospital bed with bloody bandages wrapped around his face and one bloodshot eye starring intensely. The movie follows Matt Hagen (Tom Rhys Harries), an actor whose star is rising before a terrible incident turns him into Clayface.

As the camera moves in on the injured man, viewers see flashes of Matt waving to fans, and being held down and attacked. It shows Matt wearing a plastic mask over his scarred visage, the extreme treatment he will undergo, and ends with Matt using his hand to literally wipe the features off his face.

There have been multiple incarnations of Clayface in comics, going back to the Golden Age original version, Basil Karlo. The character was a B-list actor who goes on a killing spree dressed as Clayface, the killer he portrays in a horror movie. Matt Hagen, the second Clayface, is a treasure hunter who gets immersed in a radioactive pool of protoplasm. After the incident, his body becomes a clay-like substance that can be transformed into whatever he wants.

Clayface is directed by James Watkins (Speak No Evil), with a screenplay written by Hossein Amini (Obi-Wan Kenobi) and Mike Flanagan, the horror master behind The Haunting of Hill House and Hush.

The movie also stars Eddie Marsan, Max Minghella, Naomi Ackie, David Dencik, Ruby Sear, and Wil Coban.

Clayface will be released in theaters in time for Halloween on October 23, 2026.