Biography
Clifford Parks grew up an avid student of the "video store" generation. At the age of 5, inside his local video store in New Jersey, gazing up at shelves teeming with VHS box covers of monsters, haunted houses, and other nightmarish artwork... and lastly a giant cardboard cut-out of Chucky near the check-out counter... Clifford then became intrigued and fascinated (albeit still terrified) with the Horror genre.
Immediately taken in by films like Scream, Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Candyman, Child's Play, In The Mouth of Madness, and The People Under The Stairs (to name a few) and TV shows like Tales From The Crypt, The Twilight Zone, and TNT's MonsterVision with Joe Bob Briggs in elementary school, Clifford wanted to one day participate in the same magic of horror storytelling as his idols had.
After high school, Clifford moved to Los Angeles, where he continued training at both the USC School of Theatre and studied filmmaking at USC's School of Cinema-Television.
In between his studies at USC, Clifford was chosen amongst a select few across the nation to classically train at the British American Drama Academy (BADA) in London, where many stars have matriculated, such as Paul Giamatti, Paul Rudd, Chadwick Boseman, Ruth Negga, David Schwimmer, and Orlando Bloom.
After college, Clifford balanced his time acting on various film and TV projects while also reconnecting with his love for horror, interning for the Director of Development at Twisted Pictures, as well as making time to continue working on his own horror projects.
When not writing, acting, or directing, Clifford enjoys his downtime collecting horror and other cult/unconventional genre Blu-ray titles, orchestrating Halloween events, keeping up with the latest at WWE & AEW wrestling, kicking back to rock and 80s-inspired synthwave music, and participating at horror trivia with his friends.
