List of media using the Wilhelm scream

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The following is a list of some of the films which use the Wilhelm scream. The sound effect is frequently used by Skywalker Sound (particularly Ben Burtt, who gave it its name) and Weddington Sound, (particularly Richard L. Anderson).

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[edit] Movie franchises

[edit] 1950s

  • The Command (an Indian is shot)
  • The Charge at Feather River (The scream is uttered by the character Wilhelm, who gave his name to the scream, as well as by several other characters.)
  • Distant Drums (The original use of the sound. Used when a character is eaten by an alligator and when three Indians are shot.)
  • Helen of Troy (1956)
  • Land of the Pharaohs (The scream is emitted from inside a crocodile that has just eaten a man)
  • The Sea Chase (1955)
  • Springfield Rifle (1952)
  • A Star Is Born (1954 version with Judy Garland)
  • Them! (A sailor uses the scream when attacked on his ship as does a main character eaten by ants and a soldier pinned by falling beam in storm sewers)

[edit] 1960s

  • The Green Berets (4 Times. Just before Peterson says "That's what its all about Mr. Beckworth!" The second is about 30 seconds later. Again just after the villagers are being moved during the attack on the camp (just over a minute after the first 2. And then finally about 10 seconds after the 3rd wilhelm. (You see a soldier pick a VC from behind some barrels and throw him to the ground) Note: the 2nd and 4th wilhelms are different altered versions of the original)
  • Harper (1966)
  • The Scarlet Blade (1963)
  • PT 109 (1963)
  • Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
  • Swiss Family Robinson (a pirate falls into a ravine during the climactic battle)
  • The Wild Bunch (a member of the Bunch is shot in the face during the opening scene of the movie)

[edit] 1970s

[edit] 1980s

  • Airplane! (When Rex Kramer is driving in a car, he runs over a bicyclist.)
  • Always (1989)
  • The Big Brawl (1980)
  • The Big Red One (When the soldiers are being ambushed at Christ-on-the-Cross, just after an explosion.)
  • Explorers (1985)
  • Howard the Duck (A duck hunter falls out of a boat shortly before Howard yells, "Banzai!")
  • Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (twice in the truck chase scene, first when a Nazi soldier falls out of the back of the truck and then again when two fall off the side)
  • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Three Wilhelms and a near Wilhelm. Once when Indy is pushed on a cart into the band-stand in Club Obi-Wan, when Indiana Jones shoots one of the Goons pursuing him through Shanghai, when Mola Ram is eaten at the end of the movie. A near Wilhelm occurs when a Thuggee goon is tossed from a walkway in the mines.)
  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (when one soldier is killed with a grenade during the desert chase.)
  • The Meaning of Life (Arthur Charles Herbert Aruncie MacAdam Jarrett falls into his grave from the top of a cliff.(Part VII: Death))
  • Poltergeist (After the family eats breakfast, Carol Anne Freeling is watching TV. A soldier dies)
  • Spaceballs (Barf uses a section of tubing to reflect four laser bolts back at guards. The fourth one hit screams.)
  • Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (during the Hoth battle, a rebel soldier's defensive turret dish is destroyed. Another one occurs when Chewbacca throws a stormtrooper from a platform before Han is frozen.)
  • Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (when Luke kills one of Jabba the Hutt's guards (a Weequay) above the Sarlacc Pit. Later, Han throws a bag of charges at an Imperial officer in the Endor bunker, knocking him backwards over a railing. That Imperial officer is sound designer Ben Burtt in a cameo appearance, who did his own impression of the "Wilhelm". In the Special Edition, a stormtrooper does a Wilhelm while being savaged by a crowd. In the DVD release, a second Wilhelm occurs after another Weequay is knocked from a barge by Luke Skywalker, and when Boba Fett was knocked onto the Sarlaac.)
  • Swamp Thing (1982)
  • Three Fugitives (1989)
  • Willow (when soldiers crash their carriage after chasing the heroes and when The Brownies manage to trigger a huge spear shooter that hits several enemy soldiers)
  • Under Fire (Opening sequence -- a man falls off of an elephant upon helicopter fire.)

[edit] 1990s

  • Aladdin (Villagers flee in terror as the Genie [under Jafar's control] lifts the palace into the air.)
  • The Basketball Diaries (film) (When Mickey pushes the drug dealer off the roof)
  • Batman Returns (During the second Red Triangle Circus Gang mayhem scene, when Batman turns a corner, punches and grabs an enemy and hurls him towards a railing.)
  • Beauty and the Beast (Just after Chip says, "You guys got to try this thing", a villager screams from the exterior of the castle during a fight between the villagers & the household objects.)
  • Beethoven's 2nd (when the bully kid falls from the house's balcony into the lake)
  • Broken Arrow (when Master Sergeant Kelly falls down the ravine)
  • Dante's Peak (Dr. Paul Dreyfus dies)
  • Die Hard: With a Vengeance (while driving through Central Park)
  • The Doors (during the toppling of speakers while the crowd charges the stage in the chaos after Morrison "reveals" himself)
  • Evening Class
  • Face/Off (rappelling SWAT team member shot, again when a man is shot as his boat is stolen by Castor Troy)
  • The Fifth Element (When Leeloo kicks the two Mangalores into the hallway during the fight in Plavalaguna's chamber.)
  • A Goofy Movie (During the song "On The Open Road", Goofy's car plows through a construction scaffold & a worker screams.)
  • Gremlins 2 (when the gremlins take over a man is thrown off a balcony)
  • Hercules (when the Cyclops is smashing houses looking for Hercules)
  • Legion of Iron
  • Lethal Weapon 4 (when the flamethrower man in the opening scene flies into the gas truck)
  • Matinee (1993)
  • Mom And Dad Save The World
  • Pokémon: The First Movie (a lower-pitched Wilhelm is heard from one of the last scientists to be killed offscreen by Mewtwo's psychic powers)
  • Reservoir Dogs (when Mr. Pink pushes past pedestrians on the street after the botched robbery)
  • Sailor Moon S: Hearts in Ice (While Amara, Michelle, and Trista are at a restaurant, a snow dancer freezes a man passing by. Only in the Optimum dub.)
  • The Second Civil War (1997)
  • Serial Mom (the full scream when Carl's body is found in the bathroom by a guy eating shish-kabob.
  • Small Soldiers (many action figures scream Wilhelms when they die)
  • Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (two Naboo security officers get shot in the Naboo hangar, also heard in "Trailer B" when a Naboo fighter pilot is shot down)
  • Toy Story (Buzz screams the Wilhelm scream when the desk lamp knocks him out the window)

[edit] 2000s

[edit] Television shows

[edit] Video games

[edit] Other

  • Davy Crockett's Tall Tales (Amusement Park Ride) In the Davy and Death Hug wrestling scene Davy emits a Wilhelm.
  • 4chan's Flash introduction shown at Otakon 2006 contains an Apple IIe user who emits a Wilhelm scream upon being strangled by an elongated feline.
  • Runaway Brain: At the start of the cartoon after Minnie says, "From now on, you can date your stupid video game," Mickey's video game character lets out a Wilhelm when he dies.
  • TBS Commercials: In some of the TBS commercials. Seen it in the ad for Wizard of Oz, Gladiator, and several others.'
  • Elvenking: On the album Heathenreel, the scream is heard at the beginning of the song "Conjuring the 14th".
  • In Medal of Honor Pacific Assault a Wilhelm can be heard during the opening Tarawa battle and during the strafing of the Pearl Harbor docks near the CINCPAC headquarters.
  • Pledge This, a parody of NPR broadcasters, on On the Media, 2003.

[edit] Unconfirmed

  • Red Dawn, when a Soviet soldier gets shot (3rd Wilhelm scream).
  • Gunparade March, in the preview segment for episode 12, a Wilhelm Scream in a female register closes the segment.
  • Training Day, when Officer Hoyt beats up the crackheads, one responds with a truncated Wilhelm.
  • Spy vs. Spy: The Video Game (XBOX), when a spy gets killed by another spy or a trap.
  • Wild Hogs, when Tim Allen gets flung into the air by the bull.

[edit] References

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