You know the sound effect, now check out the story behind the Wilhelm Scream. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. While the sound ...

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The Wilhelm Scream is one of the most famous sound effects in film history, first used in the 1951 movie "Distant Drums." Since then, it's become an insider trope used in over 100 Hollywood films ...

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If you’ve watched any franchise cinema from the past 70 years, chances are you’ve heard the Wilhelm Scream. Recorded for the Warner Bros. sound archives in the early 1950s, the exaggerated yowl can be ...

At this point, you’d probably be hard pressed to find a film geek who wasn’t intimately familiar with the Wilhelm Scream. The famous stock sound effect has been used hundreds of times in feature film ...

‘Godzilla’ director Gareth Edwards’ 2010 theatrical debut, ‘Monsters,’ hardly lived up to its name. Though technically a sci-fi flick, the British filmmakers’s first foray into creature features was ...

Ben Burtt calls it an in-joke that got out of hand. He managed to keep it on the lowdown for years. Today, though, it might affectionately be called the Once-Secret Sound Effect That Ate Hollywood.