alt title(s): Doom Door
The sound effect used for doors opening and closing in the game
Doom. It has rapidly become one of the
Stock Sound Effects and is one of the few sound effects that non-movie fans will be able to identify right off. The reason for this is quite simple: The sample comes from a sound archive, which is a series of stock sounds — explosions, screams and so on — that can be licensed out to filmmakers. Thus, the makers are not ripping off
Doom; they just happen to have used the same sound files that were used in that game.
Many films use the same sound effect libraries; the only reason this one is obvious is that gamers of a certain age have heard it thousands of times over...
The sound can be heard about 6 seconds into
this video.
Other popular sounds include the Imp deaths (see the reindeer in
The Santa Clause), other screams and the "fwoosh" noise made by the end boss of
Doom 2 (used in a lot of scenes where flammable liquids ignite).
Examples
Live Action TV
- Can be heard in the Doctor Who episode "The Impossible Planet" — possibly an intentional reference, given that the plot, like that of Doom, involved a remote mining colony that discovered a powerful demonic monster.
- Also turns up in the Torchwood episode "Cyberwoman".
- Austar, an Australian television channel, used the Doom Doors sound in one of its promos.
- In the later seasons of Mystery Science Theater 3000, one of the theater doors makes the Doom Doors sound.
- Also heard in the middle of the Babylon Five fourth-season episode Into the Fire, in a space battle scene.
- Newer episodes of Good Eats have used both the Door sounds and the Imp Wounded/Imp Dying sounds for various things, including an "animatronic" alligator puppet and a cameo by
Chewbacca Bigfoot, respectively. Also, pretty much any large animal that's not a cow will use the Imp sounds as its "voice".
- Used in the second half of Season 3 of 24.
- The doors in the SGC sometimes make this noise.
- The rocket/barrel explosion sound is used fairly often on TV.
Film
- GalaxyQuest uses this sound effect instead of the usual one heard in StarTrek.
- Eagle Eye. Used near the end of the film.
- Event Horizon uses the "fwoosh" sound effect when what looks like Edward Corrick attacks Captain Miller with fire.
- Averted for the most part in the film version of Doom, where doors open with a non-doom doors futuristic style sound. However it is doubly subverted when the film shifts to a First-Person style, and becomes much more similar to the game, complete with doors now inexplicably opening with the characteristic noise.
Music
- Bein' Who We Are, the song which came on the CD bundled with the Bratz: Space Angelz line of dolls, used the Doom door sound effects in the opening to the song. You can hear the song here.
Videogames
- In World of Warcraft, The Burning Crusade expansion, the Moongraze Stags and Bucks of Azuremyst Isle make the Imp death noise when killed.
- In Resident Evil 2, the mutated William Birkin makes an "imp activating" type sound in his later forms. Not to mention the gunshot sound used for the Magnum.
- The Doom explosion sound can sometimes be heard when the lab is self-destructing.
- The Xenomorph-type enemies in Abuse use the "Hell Knight dying" sound for their activation.
- Slightly modified, that is.
- The pistol shot, shotgun reloading, and elevator sounds are ubiquitous. Not the door sound so much.
- In a slight variation, not Doom Doors but Quake Lifts, the Beamos laser turrets fairly late on in Zelda: Twilight Princess rotate with the sound that the elevators made in the original Quake.
- In turn, the elevators in the "base" levels in Quake 1 use the same sound as the Doom elevators.
- Also from Twilight Princess, if you beat the minigame that increases your quiver size, Link will get 3 female "admirers" outside the shop. Said admirers sound like Ryoji's "admirers" in his introduction scene.
- There's also Marathon doors and lifts, for example, some of the elevators in Quake II and IV use the "Heavy Platform" stock sound effect from Marathon 2 and Infinity. The Marathon 1 elevator sound also occurs alot in various media, including Doom 3.
- Full circle it has come. You will go insane trying to find all of their usage, but let me tell you something. They have been in music, Racing games, and ever TV.
- Descent uses the door sounds.
- The gates in the High Speed Stage in Gradius IV make the same sound as the alarms in Goldeneye.
Western Animation
- Rugrats, "Mega Diaper Babies", when the giant robot Angelica's head explodes.
- Jonny Quest, Ezekiel Rage's secret underground base has one.
- The Venture Brothers, "Victor Echo November", the sound effect is mixed with another one when the power goes out at the Venture compound.
