Watching 'Clayface' Is Like Eating Play-Doh
Rolling Stone reviews the new DC Comics film "Clayface," a body-horror movie featuring the lesser-known Batman villain. The article critiques the film's quality, suggesting it fails to reverse DC's recent struggles and struggles to blend horror with the DC universe. It notes the film's troubled production history, including director changes.
Why it matters
This article reflects on the ongoing challenges faced by the DC cinematic universe in producing critically successful films and its attempts to diversify genres, which has implications for the future of major superhero franchises.
The rogue’s gallery of Batman villains has a deep bench, and given that a certain Clown Prince of Crime received not one but two solo outings and Gotham’s waterfowl-related kingpin got his own prestige-TV drama , it makes sense to start pulling out other MVP bad guys for side projects. Personally, we might have gone with a few other first-stringers before landing on Clayface, a character whose name goes back to 1940s Batman comics. The original was simply an actor moonlighting as a criminal; the better-known version was introduced in the Fifties, a shape-shifter who could take on anyone’s appearance but usually presented as a giant, hulking lump of clay. In terms of Hall of Fame status, he’s somewhere between Killer Croc and Solomon Grundy. (IYKYK.)
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