<![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> it definitely appeared in KOTCS too...when Indy almost runs down a kid with a stack of books in the library.

Carencey

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> Add another one, Harold and Kumar 2! Happens when they jump the two KKK members taking a piss :)

moose_knuckle

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> YES!!! I've just been searching for that scream too!

I always associated it with a video game called timesplitters (which is rather comedic in nature) and it was weird when i first heard it on 'Heroes', since it's supposed to be much more serious. I've heard it on an Australian comedy called 'We Can be Heroes', and just tonight i heard that scream on 'The Butterfly Effect' when the girl's brother got stabbed in the back.

Why isn't there more information on this particular scream. It seems to be have appeared all over the place over the past few years.

aang8405

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> I was just searching the internet for that--so far it's appeared on Heroes twice as a scream from Claire (which sounds NOTHING like Hayden Panettiere's actual voice) and I'm just now noticing it on the montage leading up to the DVD menu of Season 5 of Buffy.

MsFeasance

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> I have been noticing a female wilhelm scream for a while now, a wilhelmina if you will...

[www.zshare.net]

do you have any trivia on that?

ElRodente

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> The best way to watch Hercules Against the Moon Men is the classic MST3K version. SANDSTORM!!! SAAAAANDSTORM!!! DEEEEP HURTING!!!!

GenXCub

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> I think it was one of the dying-Bob noises in Marathon, too! They screamed it when they'd fall off something.

Liz Henry

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> There's another scream that I first heard in Goldeneye for the N64. It was the sound you got when Xenia was shot, I believe. Kind of a high pitched "ugh" sound. That one turns up all the time in commercials.

ashadowcastinred

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> I'll go you one better.
It's not a sci-fi montage, but it's pretty complete:
[someaudioguy.blogspot.com]

Also IMDB keeps a page on all the films to use Wilhelm (linked in the post).

It's kinda great...

SomeAudioGuy

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> I hear this all the time ever since I learned about it last year.

RedSuzaku

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> the uk show "primeval" manages to use that scream in every episode.

great vid, great post. thanks!

X: The Eliminator

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> The Nazgul Scream from LOTR features Fran Walshe and PJ joked that was the sound she made when he told her he had just bought the film rights for the Silmarilion

Mouser_UK

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> i love that this clip starts with the venture bros, by far the best original show to come out of adult swim...except maybe the brak show.

D Appammottoxx

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> @cde: Damn, score one for io9, -1 for my memory.

Ghede

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> lol i just saw the Toy Story comment...
I remember laughing out loud when I first saw Toy Story and heard Buzz do that scream... was a perfect comedy moment for anyone who the inside joke about that sound effect.

dOk

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> Well it also works great if the victim making the scream id being grabbed by a giant ant too... See Them!

dOk

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> @Ghede: Go watch it again. It was used.

cde

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> ... This video was fake wasn't it?
I'm pretty sure it wasn't used in Toy Story.

Ghede

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> This just makes me appreciate the campyness of movies even more :D Campgasm even.

and Kevin, really, is this bit of redundancy needed?:

//Hercules Against The Moon Men, where Hercules battles monsters from the moon.//

Most people will figure that Hercules Against the Moon Men, has Hercules fighting men from the Moon. Unless they think it's a movie about Cinderella making cookies.

P.S. Can we get some Consumerist BlockQuote love here?

cde

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> @bonniegrrl: I have a commentgasm whenever Bonnie comments on one of my posts.

Kevin Kelly

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> @Joessandwich: That's Hellboy! Well worth a watch if you haven't seen it.

Kevin Kelly

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> Ah the Wilhelm... love it.

What movie/show is the one with the giant blue ball that turned that dude into a skeleton?

Joessandwich

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> What's funny is that soundtrack, the apple sound editing software, has a lot of different royalty free screams called 'chrishelm and zachhelm and marthahelm', etc

Sound editors and foley men rock.

aspiringexpatriate

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> @EDread83: It's like a Quantum-leap type character is bouncing from movie to movie and only stays long enough to get killed before bouncing to another.
Maybe someone should make a TV series out of it.

steven522

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> YES! Only the other day I was wondering what this sound was and why its been in every big film ive seen, Thanks io9!

DangerousDac

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> @Frozen-Tex: The other half of the battle is bloody, bloody combat.

thorshammer

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> @mechno: I think that's the one used when you'd fall off of a cliff in Dark Forces.

joemono

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> Does anyone know the name of the other overused scream? If you watch the trailer for "Shrooms" you'll hear it at the end and will absolutely know what I'm talking about. I call it "Uriah" for reasons that should be obvious.

For me, the Uriah is cooler than the Wilhelm because it's so annoying. It's popped up in so many movies and commercials, but I have no idea what it's called.

mechno

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> Yup... even more info on that legendary scream here:
[www.theforce.net]

bonniegrrl

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> ok, I'll just sit here and have a poutgasm...

SunZhiQian

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> @SunZhiQian: Yeah, in fact MORE stuff should be compared to orgasms.

Kevin Kelly

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> @SunZhiQian: Dude, we love orgasms and we just can't stop thinking about them. Sorry!

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> LOL @ eDread's first comment.

and...

Dear Bloggers,
Can we please stop equating everything in the entire universe to an orgasm? Nothing anybody posts is that cool (except maybe the Ironman trailer).

Sincerely,
me

SunZhiQian

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> And now I look forward to spotting it in "Crystal Skull."

joemono

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> I love the wilhelm. It's something that I remember as a kid and wondering about everytime I heard it. Then when the internet finally came around i was able to track it down.

the best part is that its just one out of many heavily recycled sound bytes.

capntim

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> How many Red Shirts on Star Trek expired with that sound?

DearEditor

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> Awesome - never knew why this sound effect was used so many times (other than the fact that it sounds hilarious). Thanks for enlightening me on the history of the Wilhelm Scream. I think it works best when the guy in question gets shot/thrown/falls off of something, like in LOTR or Indiana Jones.

wundermint

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> @Garrison Dean:
@Kevin Kelly:
Now I know. And knowing is half the battle...



Frozen-Tex

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> @Frozen-Tex: It is indeed!

Kevin Kelly

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> @Frozen-Tex: Yeah and that is about the highest quality shot of that I've ever seen. Some of those uses are near unforgivable.

Garrison Dean, King Awesome

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> Wher'd that clip of Han fighting a stormtrooper come from? Was that from the Holiday Special?

Frozen-Tex

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> It's the Amen break of sound editing.
[en.wikipedia.org]


Oxfordian

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> @joemono: exactly. i thought that portion of the book was hilarious.

EDread83

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> There was a great piece about the Wilhelm on "On the Media" several years ago.

www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2005/12/30/06

lessersiren

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> @EDread83: Kinda like that guy Arthur Dent kept accidentally killing over and over in the Hitchhiker series.

joemono

]]> <![CDATA[Why You've Already Heard Scifi's Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream]]> I like to imagine that every character that ends up using that scream is just a different reincarnation of the same guy. Boy does he have some shitty luck.

EDread83

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