# Woman who screams with helpless terror in 1. Invasion of Body Snatchers remake and 2. Alien
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-who-screams-with-helpless-terror-in-1-invasion-of-body-snatchers-remake-and-2-alien/701626
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 17, 2014, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-who-screams-with-helpless-terror-in-1-invasion-of-body-snatchers-remake-and-2-alien/701626 "2014-10-17T22:15:46Z")
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### Author:  [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2014, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-who-screams-with-helpless-terror-in-1-invasion-of-body-snatchers-remake-and-2-alien/701626/1 "2014-10-17T22:15:46Z")
Can’t be same woman. can it? Same face, same acting highlight. Looks like a cut and paste. Doppelgänger (spooky?..)?
ETA: this is more MPSIMS. And let me google it fodder. But there it is.
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### Author:  [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2014, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-who-screams-with-helpless-terror-in-1-invasion-of-body-snatchers-remake-and-2-alien/701626/2 "2014-10-17T22:23:39Z")
Are you maybe thinking of the Wilhelm Scream? Here’s a website where you can press a button and hear it to your heart’s content.
> **[Wilhelm Scream](http://www.wilhelmscream.net/)**
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> A pointless site with a button that makes the Wilhelm Scream. The Wilhelm Scream has been used in dozens of films including most of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones films.
It’s a standard sound effect that has been used in loads and loads of films/TV/etc
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2014, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-who-screams-with-helpless-terror-in-1-invasion-of-body-snatchers-remake-and-2-alien/701626/3 "2014-10-17T22:27:20Z")
So, there’s this thing they have now called The Internet Movie Database…
FTR, [Veronica Cartwright](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001021/?ref_=tt_cl_t3) was in both movies. Since the only other woman in _Alien_ was Sigourney Weaver, I’m assuming that’s who you’re talking about.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2014, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-who-screams-with-helpless-terror-in-1-invasion-of-body-snatchers-remake-and-2-alien/701626/4 "2014-10-18T19:22:42Z")
She also fell down a flight of stairs in \*The Witches of Eastwick. \*
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### Author:  [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2014, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-who-screams-with-helpless-terror-in-1-invasion-of-body-snatchers-remake-and-2-alien/701626/5 "2014-10-18T21:41:48Z")
Even spookier, the hispanic Marine grunt in _Aliens_, the suburban foster mom in _Terminator 2_ and the wee Irish mum in _Titanic_ all died in horrible ways. It’s enough to make a Jewish actress rethink her choice of career.
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2014, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-who-screams-with-helpless-terror-in-1-invasion-of-body-snatchers-remake-and-2-alien/701626/6 "2014-10-18T21:44:50Z")
And all three of those films were directed by the same guy! What’s he got against Jews, anyway? Is he like the Adolf Hitler of film directors?
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### Author:  [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2014, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-who-screams-with-helpless-terror-in-1-invasion-of-body-snatchers-remake-and-2-alien/701626/7 "2014-10-19T01:02:31Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> She also fell down a flight of stairs in \*The Witches of Eastwick. \*
More importantly to my generation, she vomited cherry pits. Ewwwwww!!!