“Clayface” Does Not Save a Cat
This feels like the creative team wanted to make a body horror film, but the studio wanted to make another generic blockbuster.

Jon Harris (born 11 July 1967) is a British film editor known for his work on Snatch (2000), Layer Cake (2004), The Descent (2005), Stardust (2007), 127 Hours (2010), The Woman in Black (2012), T2 Trainspotting (2017), Yesterday (2019), The Dig (2021), Speak No Evil (2024), Long Day's Journey Into Night (2025), 28 Years Later (2025) and Clayface (2026). He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing for 127 Hours (2010). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jon Harris (film editor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
This feels like the creative team wanted to make a body horror film, but the studio wanted to make another generic blockbuster.
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