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Brandon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#26: Apr 2nd 2011 at 2:42:37 PM

All of Tom's screams were done by William Hanna, incidentally.

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#27: Apr 2nd 2011 at 2:52:14 PM

So it's the Wilhann Scream then grin

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#28: Apr 3rd 2011 at 12:36:26 AM

The GYA-AA-AARGH! Scream is not the YERRRAAAAAAARGGGHH scream.

I seem to remember one of the one time characters from Hey Arnold making that same scream.

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#29: Apr 3rd 2011 at 12:57:56 AM

Well, nobody here seems to have any idea which scream it is, so you'll just have to find a recording of it somewhere.

Brandon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#30: Apr 3rd 2011 at 9:04:20 AM

Are you talking about the scream that's used on the opening title for Nickeodeon's AAHHHHHHHHHH Real Monsters?

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#31: Apr 3rd 2011 at 9:16:17 AM

No, that's the YOURAAAAAAAAGH

The scream I'm looking for is a little briefer and oddly enough, sounds like three syllables in a scream. But I'll try and find a recording.

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#32: Apr 3rd 2011 at 12:33:09 PM

There’s a sort of wailing scream (scroll ahead to 7:14 in this video) that I hear fairly often. Is that what the poster meant?

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#33: Apr 3rd 2011 at 3:47:34 PM

Anyone know what that "EEEEEEEE-YEAAAAAH! EEEEEEEE-YEAAAAAAAH!" scream is called?

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#34: Apr 4th 2011 at 5:46:40 AM

Sorry, but your string of letters doesn't ring any bells. You'll have to find a recording of it.

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#35: Apr 4th 2011 at 8:30:54 AM

I recognise tons of stock sound effects, including the Wilhelm screen.

There's seriously some Starcraft-era shit floating around still.

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#36: Apr 6th 2011 at 10:48:46 AM

I've heard it in a few episodes of American Dad, to say the strangest places I have heard it.

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#37: Apr 6th 2011 at 11:23:10 AM

I heard it about 5 seconds into Tropic Thunder. For some reason that scream always makes me smile grin

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#38: Apr 6th 2011 at 12:20:03 PM

Uhh, maybe I'm missing something, but Starcraft is only 13 years old. For stock sound effects that's nothing.

FuschlatzOReilly Since: Dec, 1969
#39: May 6th 2011 at 6:39:34 AM

I learned when I was a lot younger that the Wilhelm Scream has become a stock sound effect among Hollywood movies.

What I didn't learn when I was a lot younger was that it was called the Wilhelm Scream.

edited 6th May '11 6:40:53 AM by FuschlatzOReilly

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#40: May 6th 2011 at 6:45:17 AM

I always go "Wilhelm scream!" whenever I hear it in film. tongue

FuschlatzOReilly Since: Dec, 1969
#41: May 6th 2011 at 6:53:20 AM

Another Stock Scream we might as well mention:

HOWIE. LONG.

The only stock scream I have actually seen being used in The Simpsons...

Noomie90 Since: Mar, 2012
#42: Aug 17th 2012 at 7:40:05 PM

I've heard it a couple of times on the tv show Community, notably at 0:14 of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W3Vx-d2VEI

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#44: Aug 18th 2012 at 6:47:02 AM

I always feel that if you notice the Wilhelm Scream first time, then it's being used incorrectly. It's really distracting when you hear it popping up in a movie for no reason other than the hell of it. When you notice it in a shot it really makes the shot seem less real, I think.

Also, the Goofy scream should be used more.

edited 18th Aug '12 6:49:13 AM by TheBatPencil

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#45: Aug 18th 2012 at 7:04:16 AM

Ah but maybe the Goofy yell is used all the time, it's just used so well that you don't notice it.

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#46: Aug 18th 2012 at 7:18:25 AM

[up] Mother of God

edited 18th Aug '12 7:18:51 AM by TheBatPencil

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#47: Aug 19th 2012 at 6:54:00 PM

At first, I mistook this for a thread about a movie actually about The Wilhelm Scream. Someone needs to make that now.

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#48: Aug 21st 2012 at 11:22:54 AM

I'm editing a film project for a friend and found a way to sneak in a Wilhelm Scream.

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#50: Aug 21st 2012 at 6:54:14 PM

I was playing the Spider-Man 2 video game earlier today (which is not only a good licensed game, but a great game in general) and one guy did the Wilhelm Scream during the scene where the fusion reactor explodes. Completely sucked the drama out of the scene and turned it into comedy. Probably not the best time for a Wilhelm. I can't remember if the scream was in the movie or not.


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