wilhelm,scream,movies,aehhhh Repeated use of "the Wilhelm scream" over the years in movies

Repeated use of "the Wilhelm scream" over the years in movies

posted by theo47

3 years 3 months 1 week ago • 3499 views

tags: wilhelm, scream, movies, aehhhh

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

written by theo47

| 3 years 3 months 1 week ago | CH

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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.

written by dag

| 3 years 3 months 1 week ago | CH

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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.

written by maudlin

| 3 years 3 months 1 week ago | CH

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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

written by swampgirl

| 3 years 3 months 1 week ago | CH

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LOL thats fantastick

written by westy

| 3 years 3 months 1 week ago | CH

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Love it.

written by ThwartedEfforts | 3 years 3 months 1 week ago | CH

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

written by firefly

| 3 years 3 months 1 week ago | CH

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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...

written by Bardaf | 3 years 3 months 1 week ago | CH

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Fantatic post! Great to see the clips assembled!

written by amatern | 3 years 3 months 1 week ago | CH

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

written by quantumushroom

| 3 years 3 months ago | CH

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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.

written by Payback

| 3 years 3 months ago | CH

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

written by conan | 3 years 3 months ago | CH

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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.

written by Krupo

| 3 years 2 months 4 weeks ago | CH

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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.

written by Monster

| 3 years 2 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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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.

written by swampgirl

| 3 years 1 month 3 weeks ago | CH

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Re-promoting this video to the front page as a VideoSift Classic. Originally published on Thursday 3rd August 2006 (promotion called by gold star member swampgirl)

written by siftbot

| 3 years 1 month 3 weeks ago | CH

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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

written by theo47

| 3 years 1 month 3 weeks ago | CH

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*nominate

written by plastiquemonkey

| 2 years 12 months ago | CH

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This video cannot be nominated by plastiquemonkey because plastiquemonkey has already nominated 5 videos this year - sorry.

written by siftbot

| 2 years 12 months ago | CH

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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.

written by plastiquemonkey

| 2 years 12 months ago | CH

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

written by swampgirl

| 2 years 12 months ago | CH

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This video has been nominated as a top video of 2006 (nominate called by gold star member swampgirl)

written by siftbot

| 2 years 12 months ago | CH

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*geek

written by Farhad2000

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Video added to geek channel (geek called by gold star member farhad2000)

written by siftbot

| 2 years 12 months ago | CH

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*promote

written by swampgirl

| 2 years 9 months ago | CH

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Re-promoting this video to the front page as a VideoSift Classic. Originally published on Tuesday 19th September 2006 (promotion called by gold star member swampgirl)

written by siftbot

| 2 years 9 months ago | CH

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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.

written by gorillaman

| 2 years 8 months 1 week ago | CH

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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.

written by 10385 | 1 year 7 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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

written by ant

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*promote

written by dotdude

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Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Saturday, February 10th, 2007 8:26pm PST - promote requested by dotdude.

written by siftbot

| 1 year 2 weeks ago | CH

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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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| 1 year 2 weeks ago | CH

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