Recently a local theme park has opened a new roller coaster, and the ads feature lots of screaming as part of the background noise. However, there’s one that gets played over and over, and I’ve heard it in lots of other things as well.
It’s a male voice, and it has a very rough sounding “Yeeerrr–aaaaagh!” as it trails off into the distance. I can’t find a .wav of it online, but those of you with Starcraft can hear it (or something very much like it) as the shouting when you click on a Terran Academy.
I’ve heard this scream so many times that it must be quite common in the sound dubbing business. Does it have a particular name?
I tired searching on my own, and while I’ve learned a bit about the Wilhelm, this other one still eludes me. Are there any sound techs out there that can help me out?
The second could be heard in the old Activision/System3 isometric unforgiving pixel-exact computer game “The Last Ninja” (on the Apple IIGS and Amiga at least) 1988/9ish.
I think the first was in Lucasarts’ “Dark Forces” 1994 was it?
I think I know the scream you mean. It’s nauseatingly over-used in movies and TV shows; calling it a cliche would be an insult to respectable cliches everywhere.
I know that this scream has a name. It’s named after the guy that did it. But damn if I can remember his name.
There was a collection of pinball games released around 1995 by a company called Sierra. One of the games had a space theme; the villain of the game made that scream after you hit two pinballs into his oversize nostrils.
I’ve personally noticed this scream in the original Dark Forces, Starcraft (both as noted above), and in the movie “Serial Mom”, when the guy walks into the bathroom and sees the body in the urinal.
I have not yet been able to locate any information on it.
Is this the same scream that’s in the Mountain Dew commercials? The “yerrrr-agggh” scream accompanying people flying by on skateboards, or people BASE-jumping from high rocks? I’d like to know too.
The Nutrigrain commercial scream that Narrad mentioned is the same scream as in the start of the Nicktoon Aaah, Real Monsters, and many other generic scream instances. It annoys the hell out of me, but it is NOT the Wilhelm scream.
The Sand People shout is a gutteral “Huuuuurh! Hurh hurh!” When you’re in a Scout troop full of Star Wars fans that takes regular trips to various deserts and canyons, you learn to make these kinds of noises.
I’m pretty sure it’s the same scream as in various “extreme” commercials which show people base-jumping and such. I remember it being in at least one Mountain Dew ad, but I can’t remebmer when or what was going on. Some help I am, eh?
I remember this scream from Dark Forces too, though I have heard it many other places. It’s really starting to bug me. I admit, it’s a great sounding scream- the first two times you hear it. I used to jump off of cliffs in Dark Forces just to make my guy do his death-yell. However constant repitition does not make it any better. We need new screams, and I am willing to do whatever I have to do to produce them.
I have also noticed a certain “pig snort” that demonstrates this same phenomenon. I guess they just figure all pig snorts sound the same.