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The Scifi Sound Effects That Take Over Your Brain

Even if you just hear a science fiction movie or TV show playing in another room, you'll instantly recognize it thanks to the weird sounds of alien spaceships and laser weapons. No genre of entertainment has ever challenged sound-effects designers as much as SF. We've gone through some of scifi's most identifiable and iconic sounds and boiled them down into a list of the coolest and the most earwormy. More »

2:42 PM on Fri Apr 11 2008
By Kevin Kelly
11,491 views, 45 comments

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The "Castle Thunder" Noise that Rocked a Thousand Movies

On Friday we told you about the pervasive use of the Wilhelm Scream through movies, tv shows, and video games, but today we bring you something even closer to the hearts of science fiction history: Castle Thunder. It's been used to bring assembled body parts back to life, to send people back to the future, and to herald the ominous approach of spooky evil mad scientists who want to shrink you and your friends down to miniature size. Find out all about this multi-purpose noise below. More »

11:00 AM on Mon Mar 3 2008
By Kevin Kelly
3,005 views, 21 comments

Latest by Judd Sandage: @workingonyourinvoice: DUDE, I used to work at CompUSA before WinXP came out and I heard that every morning I worked and every evening I worked, I would hear that from 2 dozen plus computers, and we just called them giggling more »

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Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream

You've probably heard the Wilhelm Scream dozens of times in different movies and television shows without realizing it, but it's one of those things that once you hear, you'll always be able to identify it afterwards. It's now become an in-joke amongst sound editors who try to insert it into their films whenever there's a perfect moment that just needs an over-the-top scream. It began as a Warner Bros. stock sound effect, but was revived and put to serious use by Star Wars sound designer Ben Burtt. Now the thing just won't die. Find out more in our screaming triviagasm below. More »

11:11 AM on Fri Feb 29 2008
By Kevin Kelly
62,715 views, 46 comments

Latest by n/a: it definitely appeared in KOTCS too...when Indy almost runs down a kid with a stack of books in the library. more »