DC's CLAYFACE Officially Rated R
The MPA cites strong bloody violence, gore, language, nudity and brief drug use in the DC Studios horror film.
- The Motion Picture Association officially assigned an R rating to Clayface on Wednesday for "strong bloody violence, gore, language, some nudity and brief drug use," with the DC Studios horror film arriving in theaters October 23, 2026.
- Co-CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran previously signaled the film would be a "Hard-R" body horror experience, which director James Watkins is now fulfilling from a script by Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini.
- Tom Rhys Harries stars as Matt Hagen, a heartthrob actor whose "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." He spirals into a revenge-filled existence.
- As the third theatrical film in the DC Universe, Clayface leans into what director Watkins called a "smaller-budgeted" but "big, bold swing" in horror while remaining "fairly self-contained" within the shared universe.
- The film marks DC Studios' first theatrical foray into horror, exploring "the loss of one's identity and humanity" in a mature experiment that signals the studio's willingness to diversify beyond standard superhero narratives.
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