A Lovely Afternoon in the Company of an Even Lovelier Actress!

Faith Clift with a DVD of The Nightmare Never Ends (1980). Photo by Brett Homenick.

 

On Friday, July 18, I was finally able to meet Faith Clift, an actress who appears in a couple of my favorite genre movies. I interviewed Ms. Clift for Vantage Point Interviews back in 2020 and got to hear her memories of working with several notable film personalities over the years, and it was quite fascinating. 

Ms. Clift stars as Claire Hansen in the feature film The Nightmare Never Ends (1980), which got severely edited down and appears in a truncated form in the anthology horror flick Night Train to Terror (1985). She also appears in a small role in the cult classic Horror Express (1972).

Faith Clift with a Blu-ray of Night Train to Terror (1985). Photo by Brett Homenick.

I first saw The Nightmare Never Ends in the fall of 2008 on one of the Mill Creek sets of 50 public domain movies. I went into it completely blind but was intrigued by the film, as it was more about ideas than horror. I later saw Night Train to Terror in August 2009 right after moving into a new apartment and was surprised to see the former flick recycled into the new one, with loads of new claymation effects thrown in for good measure. Both movies are enjoyable but for completely different reasons.

I picked Ms. Clift up at her home and, since she almost literally now lives in the neighborhood in which I grew up, I drove her by my childhood home to show her my old house. After that, we had a nice lunch and then went walking around a local street fair. We sat down after walking around for a while and talked about just about every imaginable topic. It was a great afternoon!

Afterward, I asked her to sign my Nightmare Never Ends DVD and Night Train to Terror Blu-ray, which are pictured above. Since she'd never seen either of these releases, she took some extra time looking at the covers she was signing. Then we took our obligatory photos.

And that's a wrap! I really look forward to visiting Faith Clift again in the future!