Kulture Meltdown: Clayface (2026) — "They stole everything from me."

DC goes full body horror, and the question is whether a superhero movie can ever go far enough. Clayface (2026), directed by James Watkins from a Mike Flanagan story, follows Tom Rhys Harries' Matt Hagen, a rising Gotham actor whose ruined face is rebuilt by an experimental treatment that won't hold. Next to The Fly, Videodrome and The Substance, is it baby's first body horror? What was lost when Flanagan's script went to another writer and another director, and did this story need a whole movie, or fifteen minutes at the top of a Batman film?

Movie Meltdown's Bryan Renfro joins Chris Stachiw, the Doctor of Podcasting, to talk James Watkins, Mike Flanagan, James Gunn's DCU, and so much more.

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The Kulturecast is a film and culture podcast from Weirding Way Media, hosted by Chris Stachiw, the Doctor of Podcasting, alongside a rotating table of guest co-hosts. Each week digs into where film and culture meet — and how each one bends the other. Now home to sub-feeds including Required Viewing: A 360° Film Study with Dr. David D. Perlmutter.

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