Still Keeping the Faith!

Faith Clift. Photo by Brett Homenick.

On Tuesday, October 7, I visited actress Faith Clift near home again. I first visited her in July, so this was only our second time to meet. Our first time was relatively brief, but we spent so much time together this time that I returned home at around midnight!

We started off having lunch at a local Olive Garden and then moved on to a nearby Barnes & Noble. Just in time for Halloween, horror DVDs and Blu-rays were 40% off, so I picked up a Blu-ray of Pulse (2001), one of the more critically-acclaimed J-horror films of the 2000s. I saw it on DVD circa 2007 and didn't think much of it at the time, but I'm willing to give it another look.

It was great seeing Faith again, and I hope to have another chance very soon!

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!

Even More Content on Vantage Point Interviews!

Reuben Leder running sound on A*P*E (1976). Photo © Reuben Leder.

A couple of brand-new interviews have just been published on Vantage Point Interviews. The first one is with Reuben Leder, the co-screenwriter and sound man on the cult classic spoof A*P*E (1976). There are plenty of behind-the-scenes photos and memories to entertain any Monster Kid!

The other interview is with Faith Clift, an actress who was married to Academy Award-winning screenwriter Philip Yordan. Ms. Clift discusses her part in the Christopher Lee/Peter Cushing thriller Horror Express (1972), as well as her starring role in one of my favorite overlooked horror flicks, Cataclysm (a.k.a. The Nightmare Never Ends). Many of her scenes in that film were recycled in Night Train to Terror (1985), a rather infamous cult classic in its own right.

Check 'em out today!