Now she can feel proud of the performance she delivered as an 18-year-old. “I was always very self-critical,” she said. She’s old enough to look at herself in a different way, too. The re-release “made me look at (“Night Screams”) in a different way, through the eyes of people who are fascinated by these films,” Schoenhofer said. Most of the Wichita cast hadn’t seen or thought about “Night Screams” in years, unaware of its modest cult-film status. The production also shot a football scene at Heights High School and a club scene at Pogo’s, among other Wichita-area locations. Hart used his father’s house near Crestview Country Club for the exteriors. That scene was filmed inside a Spanish-revival-style house at Second and Crestway in College Hill. He left to catch a production of “A Chorus Line” at WSU and returned well before his scene shot after midnight. One day, Roark was asked to show up to set early, but wound up waiting through lunch and dinner. The theater-trained Wichita actors all enjoyed their experience, despite the “hurry up and wait” nature of a film set. He still has the snakeskin boots he wore for the role. “And I got there and sat down, and we started talking, and I remembered so much more than I expected.”Īlthough he was in his early 30’s at the time, Arnold played the father of the star football player. “I thought I didn’t have any stories,” he said. “We were all young and having fun and getting to do a movie,” said Schoenhofer, who was, at age 18, the youngest cast member.īaker, who played a rookie cop, was only on set one day. Wichita theatergoers will recognize many of the locals, including Barbara Schoenhofer, Susan Lyles, Ed Baker, Dennis Arnold and Mike Roark.Īll five relive their experience in “Blood and Chopsticks: Echoes of Night Screams,” the 80-minute documentary included with the rerelease. One thing Hart has always been proud of is having cast multiple members of the local theater community along with the LA actors, including Rob Thomas (“The Karate Kid,” “Cobra Kai”). Local theater veteran Barbara Schoenhofer was, at age 18, the youngest cast member of “Night Screams.” A ‘who’s who’ of Wichita theater
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