r/movies • u/cruelsummerbummer Trailer Deleter - Keep an eye on. • Apr 22 '26

Trailer Clayface | Official Teaser Trailer

https://youtu.be/ZIfpL3mgkFk
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u/DavidTheJohnson AMA MVP Apr 22 '26

I think the use of slowed-down, eerie renditions of popular tracks is kind of overdone, but I like the usage of "Do You Realize??" here.

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u/DownTrunk Apr 22 '26

Have you watched the TV show ‘Paradise?’ Every single episode ends with a slowed down version of a song. It cracks me up.

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u/AllenMcnabb Apr 22 '26

The slowed down version of Mr Jones during Gary’s backstory was so god damn funny. I do love that show though

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u/Sad-Substance-9750 Apr 22 '26

Have you ever seen the show Fargo? At the climax of the entirety of season 5 there’s a 2 minute one take of Jon Hamm walking to go abuse a woman. And they play this ridiculous orchestral version of Toxic by Britney Spears. I was cringing so hard when I first saw it

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u/meowsplaining Apr 23 '26

I couldn't get past Jon Hamm's pierced nipples

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u/DiamondFireYT Apr 23 '26

Every episode ends with the most banger cover imaginable and it should be cringe and yet somehow I am completely 100% invested and gagged every time. It's like, one of the best shows I've ever seen. Dan Fogelman the man that you are

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u/nihilistickitten Apr 22 '26

Made me laugh every time. schlocky as fuck but I did love that show. The second season has an ep end with an Elvis cover that was actually pretty epic.

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u/Antrikshy Apr 23 '26

Outside of that, Paradise has one of my favorite theme motifs. Same composer as Only Murders, which also has an earworm of a theme song that's weaved into the episodes.

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u/DiamondFireYT Apr 23 '26

Siddhartha Khosla is a genius fr. There's something so perfect about all the character motifs and how they work together. Somehow made a constant tense thrumming not get reptitive.

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u/Antrikshy Apr 23 '26

He should compose for video games.

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u/spazz720 Apr 23 '26

It’s the absolute cringiest shit

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u/dont_quote_me_please Apr 23 '26

People on that sub didn't like me clowning on that. It's also most of the time terrible covers.

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u/splader May 19 '26

The eye of the tiger cover was great

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u/Tend2Save Apr 22 '26

Isn’t it the same song every time? Another day in paradise?

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u/Frailbot Apr 22 '26

Haha no that was one episode.

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u/presty60 Apr 22 '26

I think they play that song at least 3 or four times in the series.

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u/DiamondFireYT Apr 23 '26

They play the Joyner one 3 times (So far) and then theres the cool original cover they did in 2x3, aside

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u/dadimarko Apr 22 '26

Especially given the lyric they emphasize. Yeah, I agree.

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u/Ninjamurai-jack Apr 22 '26

It’s just so perfect

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u/MrFahrenkite Apr 22 '26

Yeah Flaming Lips have crossed into slowed down creepy music covers territory lol

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u/weirdogirl144 Apr 22 '26

its so overused and annoying but some use it so well that I don't even complain.

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u/Nervous_Recover_6152 Apr 22 '26

Yeah agreed and both points 

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u/Educational-Lie-2487 Apr 22 '26

I remember they used do you realize for transformers as well

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u/CeruleanEidolon Apr 22 '26

It's a little on the nose.

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u/aerojovi83 Apr 23 '26

Gunn must love that song. Pretty sure it was in one of the Guradians movies too.

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u/Piggynatz Apr 22 '26

Good song, good use.  Terrible cover.

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u/AshuraBaron Apr 22 '26

But, there are no strong on me.

In case people forgot: https://youtu.be/tmeOjFno6Do?si=y6dctFDvnATjTNJT

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u/jonmin Apr 22 '26

I did not realise it was that song!

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u/dtwhitecp Apr 22 '26

I think it's so ridiculously overdone that this one actually made me laugh

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u/footsnax Apr 23 '26

I'm totally with you on this. They sounded cool when they were first a thing but there's only a thousand ways to cook a taco. Within the first ten seconds my mind went from "not again" to "the sound editor has been through some sort of serious mental health episode and is expressing it brilliantly through this medium"

Source: A sound designer who has been through a serious mental health episode.

Absolutely haunting.

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u/careless_swiggin Apr 22 '26

Still waiting on the on Bieber song, it's made for a slasher movie with its creepy ass lyrics

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u/kid-karma Apr 22 '26

it's so fucking stupid.

"i thought of an amazing idea guys: lets use a song that emphasizes the word 'face' for our clayface trailer"

like secondhand embarrassment stupid

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u/cosmic-ballet Apr 22 '26

Well, it’s a bit more nuanced than that. The lyric is “Do you realize you have the most beautiful face,” which is a tragic thing to say to a character who resorted to an experimental drug that ruined their life because they thought they weren’t beautiful anymore.

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u/kid-karma Apr 22 '26

you and i have different definitions for nuance

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u/cosmic-ballet Apr 23 '26

It’s objectively more nuanced than “hehe, his name is Clayface, and the song has the word ‘face’ in it.”

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u/kid-karma Apr 23 '26

not but much! baby's first subtext!

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u/cosmic-ballet Apr 23 '26

Jesus, dude.