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Clayface (2026); or, All That Range and He Still Played The Bad Guy
· 1 h 36 min · Bonus · Explicit
Episode Clayface (2026); or, All That Range and He Still Played The Bad Guy
He can become anybody. The one person he can’t stand being is himself.
For our Halloween special sidefile, Dash, Melz, and Dash’s dad Steve, get into a spoiler-filled discussion about Clayface (2026), DC’s body horror movie starring Tom Rhys Harries. The celebrity, the vanity, and all the messed up stuff in between. Also, holy shit, Gotham actually feels like Gotham.
We talk about the mostly fantastic effects, the little performance details that sold them, and a few moments where we had to look away in the theater. When does Matt Hagen stop being a victim and become a villain? How much sympathy does this guy get before we have to say, okay, bro, you could’ve done literally anything else? We get into the tragedy underneath the transformations, his fractured identity, and whether this Batman villain needs Batman anywhere near his movie. There’s plenty to love, a few things to argue about, and some deeply unpleasant shit happening around the eyes.
We also need to know whether Clayface works without Wi-Fi. His nanobots are masturbating, he's getting hugged by his own feet, and Melz' favorite deleted scene has him performing every role in Annie down in the sewer. Honestly, let him have that.
No X-Files homework required. Full Clayface spoilers, though. We’re getting into the whole fucking thing.
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