In political film I used to show "Blow Out," a Brian de Palma movie starring John Travolta as a sound effects guy who has to come up with a great murderous scream, can't find one, but by end of movie he accidentally records his finacee's scream while she is being murdered by a serial killer (I know, this sounds complicated) - in any event, this post is about the so called Wilhelm Scream, a movie scream unleashed by a private in the cavalry who gets shot with an arrow. The scream is so perfect, it is used by other movie sound technicians, and eventually is put into movies "secretly" by sound tech's as a tribute to movie history. Here is an explanation of the scream, and here are examples of the scream, and here are movie scenes that SHOULD have had the Wilhelm scream, but didn't (this is piss in pants funny). Thanks Noah for finding this for me!!!
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