NEW MOVIES: Oct. 22-28, 2026, “Clayface,” “A Talent for Murder,” “Wicker,” “Capturing Bigfoot”

Clayface is an upcoming American body-horror psychological thriller based on the eponymous character from DC Comics. Directed by James Watkins and written by Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini, it is the third film in the DC Universe (DCU). Tom Rhys Harries stars as Matt Hagen / Clayface, alongside Naomi Ackie, David Dencik, Max Minghella, and Eddie Marsan. In the film, Hagen is an actor whose face is disfigured, and he turns to a scientist (Ackie) who transforms his body into clay, but he begins to lose his sanity because he can no longer recognize himself. Matt Reeves and Lynn Harris produced it alongside James Gunn and Peter Safran of DC Studios.

After expressing interest in a Clayface film both publicly and to DC Films for their DC Extended Universe (DCEU) franchise, Flanagan pitched the project to the newly formed DC Studios in March 2023. The film and Flanagan’s involvement were confirmed in December 2024 as part of the DCU, the DCEU’s successor. Flanagan couldn’t direct the film because of scheduling issues. Watkins was hired in February 2025, Amini was rewriting the script by May, and Rhys Harries was cast in June. Additional casting took place in the following months. Filming ran from the end of August to the start of November 2025, on location throughout Liverpool and on soundstages at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in England.

Clayface premiered at the Hollywood Legion Theater in Los Angeles on October 13, 2026, and is scheduled for release in the United States on October 23, 2026. It will be part of the DCU’s Chapter One: Gods and Monsters.

After being brutally disfigured by a local mob boss, rising movie star Matt Hagen volunteers as a test subject to restore his original face but experiences a series of horrifying psychological and physical side effects that transform his body into living clay.^[3][4][5]

• Tom Rhys Harries as Matt Hagen / Clayface: An actor who is transformed into a being made of clay^[6][3]
• Naomi Ackie as Dr. Caitlyn Corr: A “fringe” scientist compared to Elizabeth Holmes, who is Matt’s love interest^[7][8][3]
• Max Minghella as John Borrelli: A Gotham City police detective who is dating Caitlyn^[3][7]

Additionally, Eddie Marsan,^[9] David Dencik,^[10] Nancy Carroll, Joshua James,^[11] Francesca Corney, Ruby Sear, and Wil Coban have been cast in undisclosed roles.^[12]

A Talent for Murder is a 2026 thriller film directed by Anton Corbijn and adapted by Joanna Murray-Smith from her 2014 play Switzerland. It stars Helen Mirren, Alden Ehrenreich, and Olivia Cooke. The film is scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States on October 23, 2026, by Bleecker Street and LD Entertainment. It received generally positive reviews from critics.

A young man travels from New York to Switzerland to try to persuade acclaimed thriller writer Patricia Highsmith to write one final installment of her Tom Ripley series, with his efforts gradually turning more sinister.^[3][4]

• Helen Mirren as Patricia Highsmith
• Alden Ehrenreich as Edward Ridgeway
• Olivia Cooke as Clementine Balfour
• Juliet Stevenson as Peggy

Wicker is a 2026 romantic fantasy comedy film written and directed by Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, based on the short story “The Wicker Husband” by Ursula Wills. The cast is led by Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, Elizabeth Debicki, Marli Siu, Nabhaan Rizwan, Richard E. Grant, and Peter Dinklage. It received positive reviews from critics.

In a small medieval farming town with rigid social hierarchy and patriarchal culture, a reclusive fisherwoman is ostracized due to her persistent fish smell and rejection of institutionalized marriage. When the japes at her spinster status intensify, she sarcastically commissions for herself a husband made out of wicker. The master weaver brings the Wicker Husband to life, where his utility and dedication to his wife create a romance so pure it causes absolute chaos amongst the villagers of the closed-minded town.

• Olivia Colman as the Fisherwoman
• Alexander Skarsgård as the Wicker Husband
• Peter Dinklage as the Basket Weaver
• Elizabeth Debicki as the Tailor’s Wife
• Marli Siu as the tailor’s wife’s sister
• Nabhaan Rizwan as the Tailor
• Richard E. Grant as the eccentric and incompetent village doctor
• Ella Bruccoleri as the Baker’s Wife
• Ben Ashenden as the Baker
• Kiell Smith-Bynoe as the Innkeeper

The documentary centers on the personalities of Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin, who claimed in 1967 to have 59 seconds of footage showing a Bigfoot walking through a wooded area of northern California. Through interviews, Evans “creates rounded profiles of the good ol’ boys at the heart of the story, none of whom seem completely trustworthy.”^[8] Telling a fuller picture of who Roger Patterson was, Evans leans on Clint Patterson, whose relationship with his father was considered “hero worship,” but the son also called him a “liar.”^[7][8] The end of Capturing Bigfoot claims to show the recently found footage of Patterson and Gimlin rehearsing.^[5][7]

• Teresa Brooks—instructor at Olympic College who found film owned by her father, Norm Johnson, who was connected to Patterson and Gimlin
• Sandy Collier
• Bob Gimlin—co-creator of the 1967 Patterson–Gimlin film
• Bob Heironimus—has long claimed to have been the person wearing the Bigfoot suit in the film but has given inconsistent testimony
• Greg Long – Patterson–Gimlin film skeptic
• Larry Lund
• Jeffrey Meldrum – American anthropologist and academic
• Bill Munns – Hollywood makeup and visual effects specialist
• Clint Patterson—son of Roger Patterson
• Vaile Thompson
• Patty Patterson—widow of Roger Patterson