Clayface review: grisly DC body-horror thriller

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorClayface, the new DC spin-off, is a grisly, vengeance-fuelled body-horror thriller with no sign of Batman, and the South China Morning Post gives it three and a half stars out of five.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFolks, I've read the reviews, and I want to talk about what the critics are actually upset about. Because it's not the gore.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPoint one.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe Hollywood Reporter says one scene happens in an airplane lavatory, during severe turbulence, with the lead trying to cut skin off his own eyes.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThink about that.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPoint two. The film is rated R and called not for the squeamish. Fine. That's what the R is for. Nobody's lying to you here.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPoint three. IndieWire's critic wants to know whether the shape-shifting is subconscious, or whether the guy has to touch you. That's the complaint.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThat's the note.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA man is carving at his own eyelids in a moving aircraft, and the question on the table is the paperwork. Really?

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorBecause Clayface has been around since nineteen-forty. Eighty-some years. Somebody could have written the rules down by now, and nobody did.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAnd Variety says it's good, gross fun, no homework required.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorVariety says no homework required. Indiewire handed in three paragraphs on whether he has to touch you.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA man cuts the skin off his own eyes in a plane bathroom, and the critic says, fine, but does he have to touch me.