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Clayface (2026)

★ 7.6 · 188 ratings on TMDB

Look fear in the face.

Clayface poster★ 7.6

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.

The emergence reading

Clayface keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, revenge, corruption, justice, power.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.