Clayface tickets are on sale in Malaysia, with fan screenings the night before opening

Clayface opens in Malaysia on Thursday 22 October classified 18, and its seats are already on sale. TGV has 211 sessions listed for Wednesday 21 to Friday 23 October, beginning with fan screenings the day before opening; GSC has added its first four.

A Gotham villain, as body horror

Free Malaysia Today's October preview describes a rising Hollywood actor, Matt Hagen, played by Tom Rhys Harries, whose career ends when a crime boss leaves him disfigured; an experimental procedure then turns his body into living, shape-shifting clay. FMT reports that producers Matt Reeves and James Gunn are positioning it as DC's first official R-rated body-horror thriller. Screen Daily reported when shooting began in September 2025 that Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini wrote the screenplay and that Liverpool stood in for Gotham. James Watkins directs, with Naomi Ackie, Eddie Marsan and Max Minghella in the cast, according to the chains' listings.

Why the rating matters here

The Numbers records the American R rating as being for strong bloody violence, gore, language, some nudity and brief drug use, and TGV's listing classifies it 18, for viewers aged 18 and above. That rules out the teenagers who make up much of a superhero audience: a reader taking a 16-year-old to a DC film this month should know this one is not it. TGV lists the running time as 108 minutes, in English with Malay subtitles.

A modest film with a lot riding on it

The Numbers puts the production budget at US$40 million, small for a comic-book film. Its American release is on 23 October, a day after Malaysia's. The Star, carrying a New York Times report in June after Supergirl disappointed at the box office, said analysts were optimistic about Clayface; the first weekend's figures will show whether they were right.

The day before, and after midnight

The first 29 sessions are on Wednesday 21 October at 16 cinemas, from 11:20am to 11:30pm, most of them in the evening between 6:30pm and 10pm. TGV's fan-screening listing promises exclusives for those who come early. GSC's first four sessions are all at GSC LaLaport BBCC in the small hours after the first full day, from 12:15am to 2am on Friday 23 October, which suits a horror film. Kuala Lumpur and Selangor hold 170 of the week's 215 sessions so far; Perak, Penang and Johor have about a dozen each, and more cinemas will follow as other chains publish.

Before you book Nearly all of this week's sessions are TGV's, mostly in standard Deluxe halls, with a handful in Atmos, 4DX and BIG at the moment. The Clayface page lists every cinema as more are added, and the showtimes page sets out each cinema's Clayface sessions for opening day.