Clayface (2026)

What earned the score

• Explicit Male-Male Attraction

  A man calls another man very attractive and says he cannot decide whether to have sex with him or fight him. The film inserts same-sex attraction as a brief sexual-politics beat.

• Woman Cast as Scientist

  Dr. Caitlyn Corr, played by Naomi Ackie, is the scientist who conducts the experiment on Matt Hagen. The film places a woman in a traditionally male scientific role.

• Woman as Combatant

  A woman transforms, stabs an attacker, knocks him down, and beats him with a mace; in a nightclub fight, another woman grabs a man by the groin. Women are placed in active fighting roles.

• Woman as Scientific Authority

  A woman researches cell technology intended to repair damaged tissue and performs procedures involving cell injections and skin reconstruction. She occupies the scientist and medical authority roles.

• Woman as Scientific Inventor

  Dr. Caitlyn Corr invents the nanocell technology that drives Matt’s transformation, placing a woman in the scientist-and-innovator role.

Details

Matt Hagen's meteoric rise from Gotham street kid to Hollywood leading man is tragically cut short when a local crime boss's actions leave him horribly disfigured. Abandoned by his team and with nothing left, Matt seeks out a cutting edge treatment that miraculously returns him to his former self… but also unexpectedly affects his grip on reality, spiraling him down a destructive path of all-consuming revenge.

Starring

Tom Rhys HarriesNaomi AckieEddie MarsanMax MinghellaDavid Dencik

Director

James Watkins

Writer

Bill FingerBob KaneMike FlanaganHossein Amini

Genre

HorrorThrillerScience Fiction

Release Date

Oct 19, 2026

Parents Guide

• Sex Moderate

  Female breast and buttocks nudity of a fully nude female shown getting out of bed with several men present.

  Erotic female dancing is depicted while many males fondle her body.

  Sexualized female imagery featuring bare breast details in revealing attire.

• Violence Severe

  A man cuts his closed eyelids open while on a plane.

  A character is electrocuted, thrown through a window.

  A character is hit by a car.

  Characters are shot, suffocated, stabbed, sliced, beaten and kicked. One has his throat ripped out.

  A character cuts his own face and bleeds on another, causing him to choke and ingest it.

  A character jams a blade into a man's face, destroying his eye, then bludgeons him to death. The mangled skull with brains spilling out is shown.

  Gangsters pin a man down and carve his face with blades, slicing his cheek apart. Surgeons then rebuild his face.

  A woman bites off a chunk someone's arm; it expands and chokes her.

  A character off slices of her own skin.

  Matt Hagen Gets on top of Markos,pulls out the knife and cuts the exact place markos had cut on his face,causing the blood to be on his markos face and after that.the blood of Matt's starts to come back on Matt's face. Markos is dead when the police arrives.

• Profanity Moderate

  At least 50 F-words and other strong language.

• Drugs Moderate

  Characters drink shots in quick succession.

  A woman passes an unspecified pill from her mouth to a man's.

  A unlicensed chemical is used to heal wounds.

• Frightening Scenes Severe

  A character is visually frightening.

  The aftermath of reconstructive surgery is seen.

  A character's face and body seemingly start to melt.

  A character is hit by a car.

  Jump Scare: Matt is asleep and shapeshifted into a woman. He then suddenly turns around with a man's face and there is a loud jump scare sound.

  Jump Scare: After Matt attends a red carpet event, he looks at his face in the reflection of a window. There is then a very loud jumpscare as a car hits him.

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