Comments on: The Wilhelm Scream

By: OutcastMastodon

OutcastMastodon — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:46:35 +0000

I first heard this on a halloween FX track. So hilarious xD

By: DumbGuy

DumbGuy — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:07:38 +0000

…using a scream over and over in different movies…well that sucks. I have noticed too many sounds being used over and over again, and it pisses me off because the last visual stimuli I need are some sounds from C&C while watching xmen…all I can think of is “HARVEST MORE EVERYTHING!”

By: alex212

alex212 — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:50:43 +0000

The telecom and movie industries in both our countries are plagued by feds and their inventons like 25th masked shot. By the way, it’s an invention of yesterday. New things had come to replace it. This gives them a power that could only compete with nuclear. Maybe there was something, say, implanted in that sound, something we can’t quite hear but it is heard by our nervous system all right. An ultrasonic code-message maybe? What do you think?

By: drewski_brewski

drewski_brewski — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:50:12 +0000

My wife and I were watching Dante’s Peak, and I heard the Wilhelm Scream as the USGS team leader Paul Dreyfus was swept away in a raging torrent of snowmelt and debris. Of course, I cracked up, having read this artile, and had to explain to her what was so funny about a guy meeting his demise in a churning lahar. I hope I never hear the Wilhelm Scream while in a theatre, because there is no hope of containing myself.

By: BenKinsey

BenKinsey — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:44:32 +0000

This scream sucked it certainly failed my expectations.

By: piper

piper — Sun, 13 May 2007 13:07:51 +0000

Not to mention most dialogue is overdubbed later in a studio.

I was on set for the filming of parts of Nuremberg and dialog between Hennessey and Baldwin were shot from different angles, multiple times, with one actor just mouthing the script while the other spoke in full voice. With many "one-on-one" interview shows it's fairly easy to detect that something similar happens (because the budget only allows for one cameraman) for the reaction shots of the interviewer.

Editing of video can be truly evil if not downright deceptive. Unrelated, but another pet peeve of mine is that interviewed peoples' names should be noted onscreen whenever they speak, not just at the beginning of the interview.

By: piper

piper — Sun, 13 May 2007 12:44:32 +0000

There really aren't as many sounds out there as you think there are

And to think that I used to think that my own rear cheek squeeks were unique...

By: zenit

zenit — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:55:41 +0000

Damn interesting :)

By: TexasGuy

TexasGuy — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 03:18:48 +0000

In "Return of the Jedi", the scene where Solo, et al are ambushed in the bunker while trying to disable the Death Star's defense shield, an Imperial Officer yells "Freeze!" and gets knocked into the generator room by a thrown satchel and sort of does a Wilhelm scream. According to the imdb.com trivia section for the movie, that Imperial Officer was portrayed by none other than Ben Burtt.

By: dewyjuhl

dewyjuhl — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:31:49 +0000

haha I always wondered about that scream.