http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream

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Wow, Lucas loves him some Wilhem. I'd heard of this but really cool to see them all together with the original. Great post.

Awesome. I was familar with the classic page on the scream (http://www.hollywoodlostandfound.net/wilhelm/) but I didn't know someone had compiled clips.

I'd never heard it named before. I noticed after the Lord of the Rings trilogy hearing the same scream used. I think it was in all three or maybe just the last two. It wasn't until then when I started noticing the scream in other movies.

Great post

LOL thats fantastick

Love it.

And I'm glad they included the best of the best...Howard the Duck! ; )

It makes me think of something else... In many french-speaking gags, when someone throws up, it's the same puke sound that a French group of comics used in the early 90's...

Fantatic post! Great to see the clips assembled!

How many scenes in movies have been ruined by that ghey, cartoonish yelp. To hell with wilhelm.

You should hear how many scifi movies use the Doom2 hydraulic door sound. Play a game too much, and suddenly you hear parts of it everywhere.

Hehehe, Payback, that´s true. Many films even include the death scream of doom or the opening-door-sound. Doom is everywhere ;-)

Did this vid mention Clerks?

Rewatched it yesterday and noticed that Randall was watching a movie which had the scream - that was a great inside joke now that I understand it.

There's another scream that's used all the time in movies, video games, commercials, etc. It sounds kind of like "yyyyeeeAAAAGGHHHH" and it's often used when showing someone falling or jumping off of something very high. Don't know what the origin of it is.

After my kids saw this, they recognize it in every movie they hear it in now... they always react with big laughs.

I hope it's not too soon for me to *promote this. I know I did one last week.

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This is my favorite Sift ever. ;-)
Latest Wilhelm I heard was halfway through this trailer:
http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=10565&where=index

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oh, i didn't know there was a limit!

i was just going to nominate the whole videosift...

hard to choose.

I'll nominate it, I love this one. My kids do the scream all the time. I have geeky kids :-P *nominate

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There's a creaking door sound effect that shows up everywhere like this. It drives me absolutely mad. I've heard it recently in films (Brother), TV (Robin Hood, The Crystal Maze) and computer games (Daggerfall), and a dozen other places that I can't remember. I may have to start writing letters to the foley people on these things.

Re: Doom, the opening door (originally from Doom, not the sequel), the former human death, and also the imp "alert" sound gets used a lot, the latter for a host of random monsters from random films/TV episodes.

The yeeeEAAAAAAGH (or the one I think you mean) came from Aliens afaik; scene where Drake gets sprayed with acid. I've definitely heard that in other movies since, and I think Aliens is the origin just because it fits in with Drake's voice, and the shot is a closeup up his face as he's screaming, which seems bolder than any of the Wilhelm scream usages or their equivalents for that scream.

Neatorama and Say No To Crack share a three minutes and 23 seconds YouTube video (different and longer one).

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Ugh. I guess I'll be the only dissenting view here. As a certified movie nut, I can't stand the Wilhelm scream. Because it is in everything. But, I also watch more movies than the average person, so I would notice it more often. As you know, familiarity breeds contempt.

There's also a female "Wilhelm" that is very overdone as well. I first heard it years ago on a sound-effects-for-video-production CD (which I still have somewhere) and I've heard it used in at least 25-35 separate movies/tv shows/video games/etc. But nowhere near as bad as the Wilhelm, as evidenced by the above clip.

Oh well.

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there's a child's laugh that is used in everything and drives me nuts. Don't know the origin, just know the cartoon I first heard it in, so I now notice it every time I hear it. I hear it in movies, shows, commercials.

This is the history of a meme.

Aagh. Having an ear for repeated sound effects, they all drive me nuts. But Wilhelm is allowed. If not excessive.

Wasn't the original title of the clip 'man being eaten by an alligator?' Hey, temple of doom.

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