History HellIsThatNoise / FIlm

* The ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' series:

* ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'': One, two, Freddy's coming for you...
** ''[[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet2010 I can make you mine, so all I have to do is dream...]]''
** SCREEEEEEECH. SCREEEEECH.
* ''Film/Annihilation2018'' has a {{bear|sAreBadNews}} whose roaring is mixed with ''the dying screams of the people it kills'', who are implied to [[FateWorseThanDeath still be alive]] inside it.

* ''Film/{{Apaches}}'': Sharon screaming and crying in pain while she slowly dies from poisoning in the middle of the night after unintentionally drinking weed killer earlier that day. This particular scene is one of the film's most [[NightmareFuel nightmare inducing]] moments, because of those [[ScreamDiscretionShot horrible agonized shrieks]].
* The movie ''Film/{{Audition}}'' had "Kiri kiri kiri kiri kiiiii....". Coupled with a SLOW EyeScream.
* Film/BerberianSoundStudio, being about horror movie sound engineering, is utterly LOADED with these.

* An innocent child's laughter should be heartwarming, right? Take that very same laugh, place it in the woods in the dead of night. Courtesy of ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject.''
** "The Cellar." It is literally the sound of being trapped. And it is ''horrifying.''
* Roy Batty howling like a wolf as he pursues Rick Deckard through the Bradbury Building in the climax of ''Film/BladeRunner.''

* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'': The titular Winter Soldier's {{Leitmotif}} of what sounds like a electronically-pitched wailing siren, only modulated to sound uncannily like someone ''screaming''.
** That's because '''[[https://twitter.com/caroIbarnes/status/997469462885433344 it is.]]''' That "siren" noise? It's a hideously distorted sound clip of the scream that [[spoiler:[[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger Bucky made when he fell off the HYDRA train.]]]]

* ''Film/CloverField'':

* ''Film/ComeAndSee'': There are two. The first is after standing mere yards from a bombing, Flyora gets deafed, and a sharp tinnitus ring plays over the soundtrack for several minutes as the boy wanders around the forest in shell-shocked panic. The second is the sound of the Nazi spy-plane flying overhead which sounds like a plane run through a droning synthesizer and always signals that something terrible is about to happen whenever it's on-screen.
* ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' has three examples, all of which involve ComicBook/TheJoker.

* The "ping" sound of the sonar picking up the enemy sub in ''Film/DasBoot'' as well as the creaking ones of the U-96's hull as she approaches crush depth.

* ''Film/{{District 9}}'':

* ''Film/{{Dracula 1931}}''. Renfield's laugh. "Nhnn, hnn, hnn, hnn, hnnnnn..."
* ''Film/DragMeToHell'' uses this quite effectively. For example, in one scene, [[spoiler: Christine is alone in her house at night when she starts hearing strange noises, including screeching sounds, creaking, and thumps from above. The lights then go out, some hanging pots and pans suddenly clang together, and then light enters the house showing the shadow of a demonic figure. An invisible force then blasts her backwards into a counter, leaving her with a bloody lip.]]
* In the movie ''Film/DragonTheBruceLeeStory'' [[spoiler: the presence of the samurai armor clad demon]] is accompanied by convincingly realistic off-screen shrieks of agony and fear. Considering where this [[spoiler: demon]] had just supposedly come from, this might be the most literal example of this trope yet.

* ''Film/{{Dumb and Dumber}}'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cVlTeIATBs "You wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world?"]].
* ''Film/{{Eraserhead}}'': Throughout the whole movie, there are a lot of jump scares involving noise, like the artificial chickens, the [[spoiler:demon baby thing getting sick]], and the sound of a baby crying. For about fifteen minutes straight. The last ten minutes or so are nothing but high pitched static and the sounds of a baby screaming.
* ''Film/EventHorizon'': The sound of a hand sliding against tent material...

* ''Film/GetOut2017'' turns a spoon scraping a teacup into this during the scene where Chris is hypnotized\brainwashed. He downright collapses the next time he hears it.
* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'': [[BadVibrations Boom....boom.....boom....boom...]] '''"SKREEEEEOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNK!"''' So iconic that the first teaser trailer for ''Film/Godzilla2014'' shown at Comic Con managed to tip people off as to what it was for and introduce the DarkerAndEdgier tone by having [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z0T3VwHzk8 a frightening update of the roar]] sound out over a blank screen. Needless to say, Godzilla's roar was best described by the 2014 film's director Creator/GarethEdwards himself: "A roar of nature. A roar of rage."

* In the original ''Film/{{Halloween|1978}}'', at the end, after [[spoiler: Loomis shoots Michael six times, and the body just disappears]], we hear the main theme, with Michael's heavy breathing in the background.
* In ''Film/TheHaunting1963,'' some of the scariest scenes involve ''something'' pounding its way up and down the hall...and then hammering violently on the bedroom door.

* ''Film/{{Hereditary}}'': [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kAwnNnimKAZtG8hlzWJY5wChKjMxO-iB4 The movie's soundtrack]] is an atonal, droning, buzzing creature.

* ''Film/IAmLegend'' manages to turn [[CatScare a window closing]] into the scariest thing ever.

* This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2jUhnCU9iA sound]] in ''Film/{{Inception}}''.
** And if that doesn't give you chills, try listening to it for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4a3y7xetJY&feature=related five minutes]] straight. Spooky.
*** BWOOOM!!!!
** Some people have suggested that it's "Non, je ne regrette rien" that is slowed down to a crawl.

* [[http://youtu.be/isVwqPyxLM8 You hear that?]] That's [[Film/InglouriousBasterds Sergeant Donny Donowitz]]. But you might know him better by his nickname...

* The ''Film/{{Juon}}'' films, and their remakes, ''Film/TheGrudge'' films. The croaking sound made by Kayako ([[spoiler:her death rattle]]) will haunt your nightmares for weeks. Same with Toshio's piercing cat meow.
** The NoBudget ''Ju-on'' ripoff ''Film/JuRei'' used the same croaking sound effect for some of its ghosts.
* The [[BadVibrations earth-shaking noise]] (and the water rippling usually coupled with it) whenever the ''[[TerrifyingTyrannosaur T. rex]]'' is walking in ''Film/JurassicPark1993''. You are so screwed now...

* In ''Film/KissMeDeadly'' there's the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IksupwUvhq4 hideous, dissonant sounds]] when [[spoiler: the mysterious suitcase is opened. It's supposed to be a nuclear explosion gearing up, but it sounds more like something out of Hell itself.]]

* [[ArchangelGabriel Gabriel's]] horn in ''Film/{{Legion}}'', which sounds like the sky turned into a big sub-woofer.

* In ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'':

* ''Film/ManOfSteel'' gives us [[BigBad General Zod's]] terraforming devices and ships, which emit this horrible droning noise that even makes the ground shake.

* The 1975 film ''Film/{{Bug|1975}}'' has the raspy, falcon-like shrieking sound that the titular insects make in their final form, when they emerge from the pit and come after Parmiter...

* ''Film/{{Carrie 1976}}'' has the PsychoStrings that announce Carrie's power.

* The [[BadVibrations earth-shaking noise]] (and the water rippling usually coupled with it) whenever the ''[[TerrifyingTyrannosaur T. rex]]'' is walking in ''Film/JurassicPark''. You are so screwed now...

* The EmergencyBroadcast from ''Film/ThePurge'' that announces the commencement of the annual Purge is treated like this InUniverse, given that it basically means anyone out on the streets is going to be stuck in a whirling vortex of terror and bloodshed with no one to help them. Bonus points for the actual siren at the end of the announcement that indicates that all laws have been suspended for basically one-upping the ''Franchise/SilentHill'' air raid siren. [[https://youtu.be/us_0aLWOa8E Have a listen, why don't ya, and good luck getting to sleep tonight.]]

* The earth-shaking noise (and the water rippling usually coupled with it) whenever the ''[[TerrifyingTyrannosaur T. rex]]'' is walking in ''Film/JurassicPark''. You are so screwed now...

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' -- the jar that contains a thousand souls makes a deliberately ominous "[=oooOOOooo=]" every time someone even touches its pieces.

* The noise Palpatine makes as he jumps at the Jedi in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''. It's a technique known as a Force Scream.

* ''Literature/{{It}}'': The inhuman noise Pennywise makes whenever he gets those fangs.

*** The ambient, musical and heart-pounding growls, shrieks and wails of the BigBad himself, [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah King Ghidorah]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kc86drjq8I here]]. [[RedBaron The Death Song of Three Storms]] indeed. ''''"REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIKIKIKIKIKIKIKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!"''''
*** And Rodan's cries, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpGeC669GGw here]], which sound like enraged screams that don't sound even human. ''''"KEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOARRRRRRRRRRRRNGHHHH!!!!!"''''

* ''Film/AlienAbduction2014'' uses sound to great effect as the Morris family are chased by aliens, in particular a low-pitched horn reminiscent of ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds'', the whirring of their tractor beam, and the ear-grating screeches of the beings themselves.

* The ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3WwcsjWPIQ theme]]. A soundtrack to startle anyone at a beach\water tank\swimming pool.