Clayface, starring Tom Rhys Harries, is the first villain-centered, R-rated, body-horror movie. The results are ... mushy.'/> Like its protagonist, the film shoots out its goopy, mud-brown, protoplasmic feelers into the undiscovered territory of horror, but it does so too tentatively.
'Clayface' is underbaked body horror
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