# Best screaming **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 8, 2018, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-screaming/815650 "2018-06-08T00:26:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-screaming/815650/1 "2018-06-08T00:26:33Z")
So much good yelling and screaming to chose from - a veritable cascade of loud utterances to assault the senses, in both music and film, for all to share!🙂 Daltry in [Won’t Get Fooled Again](https://youtu.be/SHhrZgojY1Q?t=461) ok this _really_ bothered me, this one, but at least, in the words of Fubar’s Deaner, Ian Gillan was definitely “givin’er”: [Child in Time](https://youtu.be/PfAWReBmxEs?t=513) Never saw [The Shout](https://youtu.be/GxYYzCw8qAM?t=136). Now I’m lamely curious. An indecisive Micheal Palin get his at the [Bridge of Death](https://youtu.be/IMxWLuOFyZM?t=201) Nile sampling some [truly hair-raising zaniness.](https://youtu.be/b5rs-3RcBCk?t=1322) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-screaming/815650/2 "2018-06-08T00:45:22Z")
I have a friend Wilhelm, but we can’t get him to scream. Lee Michaels, 60s rocker of the Hammond B3 organ, had a great falsetto blues scream. One of them was after the four-minute mark of [his amazing version of Stormy Monday](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8wgBlDjFlE). ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-screaming/815650/3 "2018-06-08T01:08:32Z")
Brian DePalma’s, “Blow Out,” has a scream in the opening scene that is so bad, it’s great. (Unfortunately, [the YouTube clip](https://youtu.be/XJu-jcfFxAE?t=180) cuts it short.) NSFW. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-screaming/815650/4 "2018-06-08T01:08:57Z")
The need of a character for a good B-movie scream is a plot point in Brian de Palma’s _Blow Out_ (1981). ETA: Ninja’d by mere seconds! ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-screaming/815650/5 "2018-06-08T01:11:31Z")
^ I’m scared! ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-screaming/815650/6 "2018-06-08T01:24:19Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Never saw The Shout. Now I’m lamely curious… I have it on DVD. An interesting movie with a very menacing Alan Bates (and a topless Susannah York as a bonus). ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-screaming/815650/7 "2018-06-08T01:27:03Z")
Does, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” count? You know what I mean. Or not, because it’s a word? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-screaming/815650/8 "2018-06-08T01:36:23Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Does, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” count? You know what I mean. Or not, because it’s a word? Sure, considering RR says it like “shhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_Under_Duck)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-screaming/815650/9 "2018-06-08T01:53:19Z")
Well, there was this gal they called the [Scream Queen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OYCMgROWGs). Actually, I like the soldier with the shredded leg in the helicopter in _Apocalypse Now_ begging for relief. Which comes from a bomb a VC chick tosses into the chopper. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-screaming/815650/10 "2018-06-08T02:04:10Z")
Fay Wray - no one else is even second. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/DwawiQLsPe0/hqdefault.jpg "Every Fay Wray scream from King Kong") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwawiQLsPe0) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-screaming/815650/11 "2018-06-08T02:17:45Z")
The original version of The Fly had a pretty good [multi-faceted scream](https://youtu.be/o1hJknuPW-M?t=31s). And when it came to screams in print, Mad Magazine always had the best…AAAAAIIIIIIEEEEEEE!!! ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-screaming/815650/12 "2018-06-08T02:32:36Z")
[Diamanda Galas](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mIVWqn1AvAc). Her screaming is art. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-screaming/815650/13 "2018-06-08T02:38:24Z")
“The Devil’s Rain.” [William Shatner shrieks like a girl](https://youtu.be/zqmLQWrsvPo?t=2088) as Ernest Borgnine drops him into the Pit. Or something. Starring John Travolta. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-screaming/815650/14 "2018-06-08T02:45:34Z")
[Osorezan](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x28zqxc) - Geinoh Yamashirogumi ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-screaming/815650/15 "2018-06-08T02:52:30Z")
Scratching my head over [Tom Araya](https://youtu.be/K6_zsJ8KPP0?t=15) or [John Lennon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR0dDbTqUwo). Not a bad 20-second scream-tizzy of sheer anguish, dread and horror in [The Tenant](https://youtu.be/iNz3bjfx2nI?list=PLFSJumXKkQjy6lbYVYxgKxIpyLS7NNtOO&t=265) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-screaming/815650/16 "2018-06-08T02:58:56Z")
(wanna quickly say good job so far folks for good 5 second lead-in cues) ---
**Author:** ![BobBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@BobBitchin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobBitchin)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-screaming/815650/17 "2018-06-08T04:08:15Z")
Screaming for Vengeance. Boom.:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-screaming/815650/18 "2018-06-08T04:53:37Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > “The Devil’s Rain.” [William Shatner shrieks like a girl](https://youtu.be/zqmLQWrsvPo?t=2088) as Ernest Borgnine drops him into the Pit. Or something. > > Starring John Travolta. I’ll bet that was dubbed. He’s not that good an actor. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-screaming/815650/19 "2018-06-08T04:59:55Z")
How about [The Goofy Holler](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUL5w91dzbo)? “Yaaaaaaaa-ha-ha-ha-hoooie!” ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-screaming/815650/20 "2018-06-08T06:24:15Z")
A mash-up of the best screams by Bruce “Air Raid Siren” Dickinson: Also love it when Beetlejuice screams like a little girl: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Urd2Z4oIaok/hqdefault.jpg "Beetlejuice funny scream") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urd2Z4oIaok) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-screaming/815650.md?page=2)