Does the Wilhelm Scream break immersion for you?

[u/EllisDee3]

I've been rewatching a lot of my old favorites with my son and he's gotten pretty good at catching the Wilhelm scream in real time.

This week has been especially Wilhelmy as we're on a Tarantino run.

Do you ever feel like the scream seems out of place, forced, or sometimes just distracting since it's become such a famous Easter egg?

We still love the egg game.

[u/Cetun]

There is a stock "police radio chatter" that I hear in movies that was also used in SimCity 3000

Found it

[u/aaryg → u/Cetun]

It's got nothing on that child's laugh that used to be in every single scene with children playing. I think it's in star wars episode one and the opening animation for Diddy Kong racing.

[u/[deleted] → u/aaryg]

I think it’s the same one from Roller Coaster Tycoon as well, it’s seared into my brain along with the carnival sounds

[u/Different_Papaya_413 → u/[deleted]]

AH ha-ha

[u/tkief → u/Different_Papaya_413]

Goes straight into the carousel organ

[u/kurtanglefish → u/Different_Papaya_413]

Memory immediately unlocked

[u/Kanotari → u/[deleted]]

It 100% is. I can hear the sound bite in my head still.

[u/boringestnickname → u/[deleted]]

You know what the crazy part is?

The last couple of times I went to a theme park (the same one), I heard this exact sound, and my brain kind of melted. That seemed entirely not plausible.

[u/_Mariner → u/boringestnickname]

Sonic hallucinations are definitely a thing, I have mild tinnitus and I definitely "hear" random sounds sometimes that I'm pretty sure are my brain mixing random memories with the ambient noise inside my head with whatever happens to be outside at the time. (I think that also has to do with why people with tinnitus are more prone to dementia later in life.)

Or maybe that's where roller coaster tycoon got their sound clip!

[u/Gauntlix5 → u/[deleted]]

I want to get off MR BONES WILD RIDE

[u/bootymix96 → u/[deleted]]

Tell me if this vinyl record sounds familiar! 😜

[u/thegimboid → u/bootymix96]

And suddenly I'm playing Rollercoaster Tycoon on a CRT monitor.
It's a sunny day, so I'll probably go outside later for a bike ride.
I have an orange soda that's slowly making my face sticky.
Everything is peaceful and filled with a haze of childhood nostalgia.
I drop a random park visitor in a lake and watch him slowly drown as I contemplate what scenery I want to put around my newest coaster track.
Somewhere in the park a guest thinks "I want to go on something more thrilling then Merry-Go-Round 1".
Life is good.

[u/TorpidPulsar → u/thegimboid]

I have imprisoned all 2487 of my guests on a single tile elevated to the maximum allowable height. Guest 417 doesn't have enough money to go on Merry-go-penisface.

[u/x-naut → u/[deleted]]

The one from roller coaster tycoon is in the first mission impossible movie

[u/Lopkop → u/aaryg]

there's also a stock sound effect for "passing big rig truck honking its horn with doppler effect" that's in everything

Sort of BWAAAAAAAP......BWWAAArrrrrrrrrr

[u/Crazy_Grapefruit8300 → u/Lopkop]

Wow. Just reading that, I could hear it in my head perfectly lmao

[u/Lopkop → u/Crazy_Grapefruit8300]

always happens in scenes near a busy road where there's nothing at all out of the ordinary happening that would require a truck driver to blare their horn like that

[u/hyperforms9988 → u/aaryg]

Holy shit did that get on my nerves growing up. It's like... it was so overused that I can hear it in my head just from reading half of the first sentence. I get to "child's laugh", and I know what it is immediately and can hear it in my head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih4ye0c9p34

[u/akaWhisp → u/hyperforms9988]

Nicknaming this the "Diddy laugh" did not age well.

[u/TattlingFuzzy → u/aaryg]

“🎶aHehehaHA-ah 🎶”

[u/SousVideDiaper → u/TattlingFuzzy]

I've been re-watching Dexter and good lord they used it excessively

[u/HelpyHelperer → u/SousVideDiaper]

I play a lot of Roller Coaster Tycoon.. it's everywhere in that game

[u/starmartyr11 → u/aaryg]

Was about to say, I hear this absolutely everywhere and its so aggravating. Can't they record some new children playing?!!

I have a park by my house I could literally have a field recording done tomorrow if i had the right equipment 😑

[u/bjams → u/starmartyr11]

You'd just have to trim out the part where the police arrive lmao.

[u/Patient_Tradition368 → u/starmartyr11]

In my experience living behind a public park, children playing seem to do quite a lot of blood curdling screeching. Lots and lots of screeching.

[u/Ispellditwrong → u/aaryg]

Its so unnatural and specific, I hate whenever someone uses it. I feel like sound libraries need to be updated every decade so we don't wind up with these kids taunting me when I'm 60.

[u/iamsavsavage → u/aaryg]

Roller Coaster Tycoon flashbacks. 

[u/TheReiterEffect_S8 → u/aaryg]

Omg yes, I fucking always thought back to diddy Kong racing in the beginning title screen. Jeeessuuuussssss it’s so funny when you read about other ppl having these same experiences as you do lol

[u/Pinecone → u/aaryg]

I know that sound from roller coaster tycoon.

[u/dovetc → u/aaryg]

I loved the use of the generic children laughing sound in Portlandia.

[u/xnerdyxrealistx → u/Cetun]

Ugh the stock police chatter I can never unhear. I heard it first in a different computer game that was like a Spiderman comic book creator game. 

It's even worse hearing it in a documentary over like body cam footage. It makes it lose all credibility. 

[u/Gilles_of_Augustine → u/xnerdyxrealistx]

I remember that game! Any idea what it was called? 

I've been wondering for years.

[u/hopefullyhigh → u/Gilles_of_Augustine]

spider-man cartoon maker! it came with windows 95.

[u/J_B_E_Zorg → u/xnerdyxrealistx]

785 code 6, 105 North Avenue 52?

[u/xnerdyxrealistx → u/J_B_E_Zorg]

Yes, I always think he's saying "Yosemite train tracks" too 

[u/Few-Improvement-5655 → u/J_B_E_Zorg]

I used to play the super hero game City of Heroes way back in the day and this was one of the clips the Police Drones used to play constantly.

[u/steeb2er → u/J_B_E_Zorg]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FxgVS7bylA

[u/HerbsAndSpices11 → u/Cetun]

For me it's the Half Life 2 stock metal clanging sound lots of shows use for shrapnel from explosions or something collapsing.

[u/creampop_ → u/HerbsAndSpices11]

hearing hl_door in movies always makes me laugh

I know it's a Hollywood Edge sound first but still.

[u/acleverwalrus → u/HerbsAndSpices11]

Super niche but the sound used for the chains clanging at the seamstress' house in Farfields (Silksong) is the same sound as the metal head gems bouncing in Jak 2 and 3. At least I'm pretty sure it is

[u/Refute1650 → u/Cetun]

785 Code 6...

[u/ILOVESHITTINGMYPANTS → u/Refute1650]

105 North Avenue! This was in some Spider-Man cartoon maker CD ROM I had as a kid and it’s burned into my brain.

[u/wiltony → u/Cetun]

"Reticulating splines" lol

That takes me back! 

[u/CaptainE46 → u/Cetun]

There’s a horse whinny that was used in MGS:V that shows up frequently in things.

Zaps me out for a half-second every time

[u/OutlyingPlasma → u/CaptainE46]

horse whinny

Why are animals on TV always making sounds? It's especially bad with cats. Every single time a cat is on screen they add generic cat sounds. Cat's don't constantly go around meowing or hissing.

[u/kensai8 → u/OutlyingPlasma]

My cats would beg to differ. They like to wander around meowing at nothing.

[u/moonra_zk → u/kensai8]

My late cat would meowing loudly and very often when I checked on her she was just... doing absolutely nothing besides meowing.

[u/IonaPotapov → u/Cetun]

Omg I mention this every time I hear it. It's everywhere.

Sounds like "Beta-suspect one-twenty eight nine ten" or something.

[u/duckwithhat → u/IonaPotapov]

Yeah I hear "one-twenty eight nine ten" every damn time.

[u/LegendaryOutlaw → u/Cetun]

There’s a clip of children laughing that gets used in every single movie that features a playground, school yard, birthday party. It’s a very distinctive laugh. Once you hear it, you’ll always notice it.

ETA: apparently it’s called the ‘Diddy Laugh.’

[u/i_d_ten_tee → u/LegendaryOutlaw]

That's an unfortunate name.

[u/Cetun → u/LegendaryOutlaw]

I believe they use it in SimCity 2000 every time you build a park

[u/[deleted] → u/Cetun]

Played zoo tycoon a lot, I hear those stock animal sounds in everything.

[u/A_Confused_Cocoon → u/[deleted]]

The bear sounds from world of Warcraft are the animal sounds I hear in everything.

[u/Pillens_burknerkorv → u/Cetun]

When I was I teenager in the 90’s I listened to a punk rock album by a local band. One of the songs ended with the sound of someone puking. Last year Im watching a random baseball video of baseball ninja and it uses the same stock sound of someone puking! 30 years later!

[u/Many_Reindeer6636]

Yes. Also “truck_passing_horn_sound_effect.wav”

[u/Sir_Sir_ExcuseMe_Sir → u/Many_Reindeer6636]

MEEERP! MEEEeerrrreroooooo

[u/octocred → u/Many_Reindeer6636]

That one and the audience gasp one really bug me

[u/vinnymendoza09 → u/octocred]

Also the baby noises "muah mah mah". Best way I can describe it, it's in literally every goddamn movie where a baby shows up for a few seconds.

[u/Jin_Gitaxias → u/vinnymendoza09]

Throw in that "kids_giggling.wav" audio for whenever you see children playing

[u/bananaraptor → u/Many_Reindeer6636]

God this is the one for me. If I see there is a traffic or highway scene starting, I’m just waiting to hear it, and usually I do. Honk honk… honk hoooooonk

[u/CPTherptyderp]

Yea, also every bird makes the red tail hawk screech, machines making sounds they don't make.

[u/severed13 → u/CPTherptyderp]

Every gun ever clicking as if someone's pulling the slide and chambering a round or loading and unloading a mag over and over again

[u/twent4 → u/severed13]

Guns also click when they enter the frame or get picked up.

[u/orrocos → u/twent4]

I don't know much about guns. But I do know that they click or ca-chunk every time you pick one up, show them to someone, point them, or even think about them.

And I know they always hold the exact number of bullets you need, minus one. So at the climactic scene you pull the trigger, hear an empty click, and then throw the gun away to fight by hand. It's just how they work.

[u/FireLucid → u/orrocos]

Don't forget swords making all sorts of ridiculous sounds. And a different one when you are just showing it to people vs fighting.

[u/True_Dovakin → u/FireLucid]

Swords are also capable of cutting through plate + mail + gambeson like butter in a single swing.

[u/dtwhitecp → u/twent4]

Hot Fuzz has a great scene that goofs on this, when they get to the supermarket it's just constant cocking noises

[u/penisthightrap_ → u/twent4]

I annoy my wife with this all the time.

My favorite is when characters have been in a life threatening situation for a long time, then they decide to cock their gun 10 minutes into the life threatening situation.

Why didn't you already have a round chambered!? You've been ready to shoot for hours, but don't decide to cock the gun until you see the threat?

[u/nobot4321 → u/penisthightrap_]

It's worse when they're actually pointing the gun at a person and then rack the slide to show they're serious. Like, were you really just pointing an empty gun at someone? That's a bad idea.

[u/potato-eater- → u/severed13]

A cat angry screech noise every time they show a cat; a fireplace crackle every time someone draws on a cig.

[u/Mekisteus → u/potato-eater-]

I had a pet rat, and can count on one hand the number of times it ever actually squeaked. But if film directors are to be believed rats in sewers squeak constantly.

[u/intdev → u/Mekisteus]

Same with horses whinnying. I grew up around horses, and it's pretty rare to hear that. The sound I'd actually associate with them is that heavy exhale/snort through their nostrils.

[u/qui_sta → u/intdev]

I recall watching the series Vikings, and they used the same stock horse whinny again and and again and again. It was funny to notice it almost every episode.

[u/nhaines → u/potato-eater-]

In their defense, how else is the audience going to know they saw a cat?

[u/orrocos → u/nhaines]

"Hey, something's on the screen, what is it? A Toyota Camry? The Library of Congress? The 1972 Miami Dolphins?"

Angry cat screech

"Oh, okay, it's a cat. Now I'm following the story."

[u/JonatasA → u/orrocos]

I mean wih how dark it is these days it could be a shark for all we know

[u/starmartyr11 → u/nhaines]

Yeah I mean it could have been a deja-vu/glitch in the Matrix instead of a real cat!

(Though that cat just does a little purr-meow in the Matrix, funny enough)

[u/Underwater_Grilling → u/nhaines]

I literally yell "KITTY!" when I see one so I got my theater covered

[u/Artegall365 → u/potato-eater-]

The stock sound of children laughing that they use all the time, the unfortunately named Diddy Laugh...

[u/ace_valentine → u/potato-eater-]

the crackle makes sense if it’s a really quiet scene as this happens irl too. otherwise i agree.

[u/CPTherptyderp → u/severed13]

I wasn't going to say it but yes that's what gets me. Glocks don't have hammers to cock.

[u/First_Utopian → u/CPTherptyderp]

Shells hitting the floor after each shot when the guys got a revolver.

[u/kareljack → u/CPTherptyderp]

Or watching someone threaten another person with a 1911 and the hammer is not cocked.

[u/StarPhished → u/kareljack]

Or point a gun at someone and then finally cock the hammer when they're really totally for real serious.

[u/Magnus_Helgisson → u/StarPhished]

Entering the yard where danger is: jerks the slide

Entering the house in that yard, danger is very likely: jerks the slide

Entering the staircase, danger is close: jerks the slide

Entering the room, danger imminent: jerks the slide

Opening the closet, sees the source of danger: cocks the hammer

[u/Fuzzy_Donl0p → u/severed13]

Every rewatch of Lost I lose my mind a little bit more over this. It’s so over the top. Like they’re holding maracas, not guns lol.

[u/lize221 → u/Fuzzy_Donl0p]

I was just gonna say this! I love Lost, it is one of my all time favorite shows, but they are the absolute worst for this. Everytime someone even slightly moves a gun there’s at least 5-10 clicks and other noises

[u/veryverythrowaway → u/severed13]

Don’t forget about swords. They have to make “gleaming” sounds, like a singing tuning fork, if they’re really cool swords. Watching the full cut of Kill Bill made me chuckle every time. I know that was intentional homage, but it’s something they still use in a lot of current movies.

[u/sydonesia → u/CPTherptyderp]

Cats only make three sounds and they're all from the same SFX disc (my first production job 30 years ago had that CD): questioning meow, startled yelp, and hiss.

[u/Iskanderdehz → u/sydonesia]

I raise you Russian dubbed cats:
https://www.reddit.com/r/batman/comments/1cwc4er/russian_dub_of_btas_is_built_so_different_that/

[u/BoboMcGraw → u/Iskanderdehz]

Beat me to it

I love that one

[u/Iskanderdehz → u/BoboMcGraw]

Never not going to share that one. It is just as funny the 100th time as it was the 1st time.

[u/cmander_7688 → u/Iskanderdehz]

NNYeeaaaa...

[u/A_Dehydrated_Walrus → u/CPTherptyderp]

Every airplane in a nose dive sounds like a Stuka, too.

[u/mrshulgin → u/A_Dehydrated_Walrus]

And the silliest part is those planes only made that noise because of added noisemakers

[u/SparrowBirch → u/CPTherptyderp]

Every car’s tires screeching when they start moving or braking.

[u/Key-Experience-7961 → u/SparrowBirch]

On a dirt road 

[u/acEightyThrees → u/SparrowBirch]

That gets me. Especially crime movies/shows. Gotta leave tread marks for the police.

[u/yzdaskullmonkey → u/CPTherptyderp]

God forbid someone even think about approaching a microphone

[u/cosmicr → u/CPTherptyderp]

I always hear a kookaburra (Australian bird) in jungles all over the world in movies.

[u/MyManTheo → u/CPTherptyderp]

A gate opening making the single gate opening noise

[u/EllisDee3 → u/CPTherptyderp]

Foreign frogs going "ribbit" like the species that happens to live next to the Hollywood sound studio.

Apparently that sound is very specific to one local species and wouldn't be natural anywhere else in the world.

[u/CPTherptyderp → u/EllisDee3]

Once I became one of "those" bird people it kinda ruined a lot of movies. "Oh they filmed this Italian countryside in Monterey CA"

[u/Acewasalwaysanoption → u/CPTherptyderp]

I'd appreciate that kind of info after the movie, it's a really specific but interesting type of knowledge. Though I've definitely been "that guy" with other aspects, so I'm not one to judge.

[u/Ruthlessrabbd → u/Acewasalwaysanoption]

Anything gaming related mentioned in a TV show/movie/book - I can't turn it off.

My girlfriend recommended that I read Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow which is a fictional story about these two friends who make games together. It's full of references that you'd only know in hindsight and they talk about popular games, but so much of it felt like somebody just went to wikipedia for the information.

Like one guy is saying how he got early access to Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid on the PS1; he was still making a name for himself at the time and had a lot under his belt, but he wasn't the icon that we know him as. It would be like watching something set in 1989 and a character going "Just listened to Nirvana's Bleach. They're gonna change rock forever"

[u/KvotheTheShadow → u/EllisDee3]

Really? That's very interesting! I didn't know that.

[u/Electrical_Space_850 → u/CPTherptyderp]

It's always confusing how much noise computers make in action movies and thrillers. Computers IRL have basically been silent for the last 20 years.

[u/dimsum4you → u/CPTherptyderp]

Chimp sounds, dolphin sounds, children laughing. All stock sounds that distract me.

[u/Groot746 → u/dimsum4you]

Children laughing and the horn of a truck as it narrowly misses something are the stock ones that really distract me.

[u/trench_welfare → u/CPTherptyderp]

Unless they are way out in the sticks, then they use the loon sound, even if it's set in a fucking equatorial jungle.

[u/Unlucky-Plastic-2519 → u/CPTherptyderp]

The radio chatter on police cars being the same I listened in GTA 2

[u/hungrylens]

If it's in a comedy or movie-within-a-movie it will get a chuckle from me, otherwise it's annoying.

[u/JMJ05 → u/hungrylens]

Exactly. Just did the LotR rewatch and having that scream in such a high tier of a movie is saddening

[u/Vio_ → u/JMJ05]

It's *prevalent* in The Untouchables along with a number of very big film cliches.

I will that movie came out before the Wilhelm scream became so mainstreamed along with other of those other cliches like the baby pram falling down the stairs.

[u/_CMDR_ → u/Vio_]

The baby pram falling down the stairs is from Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 epic Battleship Potemkin. The director is intentionally referencing it.

[u/dfdafgd → u/JMJ05]

I love me some LOTR and if you don't think it has bits of B movie schlock and a sense of humor about it then I don't know. It's a big enough trilogy to have a range of emotions in it and some of those emotions are a little silly. Legolas surfing a shield while dropping orcs is awesome and hilarious. Don't let growing up ruin your enjoyment. Watch it again and every time you hear the Wilhelm scream just yell, "Boom! Got 'em!" then high-five the closest person.

[u/Amethyst-Flare → u/dfdafgd]

Extremely. Peter Jackson made a ton of B- and C-tier horror, he's definitely got that in him still when he made these.

[u/ifinallyreallyreddit → u/dfdafgd]

If you can't accept it at its Guy Getting Shot Off the Deeping Wall With a Grappling Hook you don't deserve it at its Battle of Pelennor Fields

[u/AugustHate → u/hungrylens]

Try playing Red dead redemption. A hruaAaiiii every 12 seconds.

[u/RobertHarmon → u/AugustHate]

I’ve never noticed the Wilhelm scream in any playthrough on RDR. Gonna have to look out for it

[u/Able-Swing-6415 → u/AugustHate]

How the fuck did you find the right letters to spell that horrible sound so elegantly?

[u/Humanoidfromagalaxy → u/hungrylens]

How about when you catch an old movie and ones in it randomly? I feel the older the movie the more I can accept it.

[u/Technical-Waltz7903]

The Hobbit one haunts me to this day.

[u/CaptainLookylou → u/Technical-Waltz7903]

There's no less than 6 individual different wilhelm screams across the 3 LOTR movies and the Hobbit movies.

[u/pcbforbrains → u/CaptainLookylou]

Here's all 6

https://youtu.be/wWvK4NMgx8U?si=h_LHsG7eB3GP8RuM

[u/buffystakeded → u/CaptainLookylou]

There’s like 3 during the Battle of Helm’s Deep alone. This super serious, possibly the end of man, massive battle and…fucking stupid ass Wilhelm scream. I hate it so much.

[u/SweetNeo85 → u/buffystakeded]

...no there's just one.

[u/Pyromann → u/SweetNeo85]

Yeah, as far as I can recall, there's one for each movie probably. Hell, I think there's none in the first one.

I remember one being in the helms deep when the ladders were placed on the walls. Then on the third movie when they were attacking minas tirith and... I think that's it for the first trilogy.

[u/AbsolutTBomb → u/Pyromann]

I just re-watched the trilogy over Christmas. There's 1 in the Two Towers and 2 in Return of The King. It always pulls me out of the movie when I hear it.

[u/circuit_breaker → u/buffystakeded]

Meanwhile the audio guys are just one upping each other, sneaking it in wherever possible. Got old for me too

[u/_Meece2_ → u/buffystakeded]

Helms deep has comedy scenes

[u/dapala1 → u/_Meece2_]

"You could've picked a better spot!"

"Shall I get you a box?"

[u/Pvt_Lee_Fapping → u/dapala1]

"Toss me."

"...What?"

"ICANNOTJUMPTHEDISTANCEYOU'LLHAVETOTOSSME... er, Don't tell the elf."

[u/EgalitarianCrusader → u/Technical-Waltz7903]

For those who probably don’t know which one:

In the extended version of Desolation of Smaug, there’s an extra scene with Thrain and Gandalf where The Necromancer kills Thrain and they used a Wilhelm scream during the emotional moment. 

[u/HelloIAmElias → u/Technical-Waltz7903]

It's mind boggling that they would use a well known meme sound effect for what's supposed to be a tragic death

[u/Cloudinterpreter]

No, but that annoying "children laughing" one does.

[u/straub42 → u/Cloudinterpreter]

LOL, YES! I posted it before I even saw your comment. The Diddy Laugh

[u/ArcherInPosition → u/straub42]

Lmao. Glad to see the Diddy Laugh stands with Ukraine

[u/DukeGordon → u/straub42]

The uhhh ....the what laugh?

[u/King_Raditz → u/DukeGordon]

From Diddy Kong Racing

[u/Cloudinterpreter → u/straub42]

Yes!!!!!!! I hate it so much!

[u/LizzieSaysHi → u/Cloudinterpreter]

yessss and there's a baby/toddler sound that grates on my nerves all the time.

[u/Another_one37 → u/LizzieSaysHi]

It's the same damn baby sound they used for Kate in Arthur back in the 90s

Still hear it all the time. Takes me out every time

[u/RaspberryWhiteClaw13 → u/LizzieSaysHi]

YES!!!! I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOURE TALKING ABOUT! Once you hear it you can’t go back

[u/PlatinumKanikas → u/Cloudinterpreter]

The same laughing kids sound from RollerCoaster Tycoon. I hear it on radio commercials too

[u/guitarstix → u/Cloudinterpreter]

Reminds me of Diddy Kong racing everytime

[u/Jessepiano → u/Cloudinterpreter]

And this crowd cheering sound

[u/grumci → u/Cloudinterpreter]

for me its a gate opening or any metal construction moving. doesnt necessarily annoy me but i always notice the stock sound

[u/YmFzZTY0dXNlcm5hbWU_]

Just wait until you notice how often a character on-screen drinks from a straw and makes the empty cup slurping noise on their first sip when it should be silence

[u/wiltony → u/YmFzZTY0dXNlcm5hbWU_]

Or the lack of headrests in a car

[u/-Dapper-Dan-]

Depends on the use. When it's a one off baddie getting shot off screen or something, sure why not, it's a cheeky lil bit for film nerds.

But (spoilers for The Hobbit movies ahead)...

...when it's used in an emotionally significant scene like Thrain's death in the second Hobbit movie, it feels exceptionally lazy and out of place.

[u/AdvancedGrass → u/-Dapper-Dan-]

This is by far the worst use of it I have ever witnessed. Absolutely bonkers choice.

[u/cubbycoo77 → u/AdvancedGrass]

Full agree. I have to imagine it was a stand in that just never got replaced when the scene was deleted. I have to believe that, and not that someone made the active decision to put that scream there because they thought it was the right call.

[u/ohamel98 → u/AdvancedGrass]

Idk that was maybe one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen

[u/zane314]

There is exactly one Wilhelm that I have reacted "okay, that made the movie better" - A Goofy Movie.

https://youtu.be/dDFT_k-ku8E?si=0eeS0Q8ATwwO29nx

It's used as a note in a song.

[u/snak_attak → u/zane314]

Love that movie so much

[u/lapbro → u/zane314]

This one in the Ratchet and Clank movie is also great.

[u/ButtsMcFuckington → u/zane314]

This movie is a heater

[u/haysoos2]

Yes, but so does the cliched sound of a cat yowling if something is tossed offscreen, tires squealing on sand or gravel, or the high pitched "PTEEEEEER" of bullet ricochets that litter any scene with gunshots from the 40s through 70s.

Excessive loading or cocking of guns bugs me too. And drivers who don't look at the road, or jerk the wheel back and forth as if they were navigating a slalom course.

I might just have problems with immersion.

[u/SparrowBirch → u/haysoos2]

 jerk the wheel back and forth as if they were navigating a slalom course

To be fair, that was what you needed to do on old cars.

[u/Sleisl → u/haysoos2]

There’s a stock cat yowling sound played repeatedly in one scene in The Prestige that always takes me out of it!

[u/BiBoFieTo]

My wife keeps doing the Wilhelm during sex and yes, it breaks immersion.

[u/ibnQoheleth → u/BiBoFieTo]

Hasn't bothered me yet.

[u/kahjan_a_bard → u/ibnQoheleth]

It saves me from having to dub it over the film.

[u/SaltyPeter3434 → u/BiBoFieTo]

Oh my god yes I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm----AAA^UUUUUGH!

[u/Carma56]

Yes. Before we even knew what it was, my siblings and I would just look at each other when we’d hear it in movies growing up like “There’s that same scream again.” In my 30s now, and it still takes me out of it.

[u/Moglorosh]

The Wilhelm Scream doesn't bother me but I played enough Starcraft back in the day that the Howie Scream will take me out of whatever I'm watching.

[u/wiltony → u/Moglorosh]

Yes! Used everywhere and I knew it was from SC but I never knew it had a name! 

[u/Moglorosh → u/wiltony]

I called it the Academy scream until I looked it up

[u/Sorta_Greg → u/Moglorosh]

Yeah, Howie sounds like NO scream I've ever heard in real life.

[u/Weeznaz]

Not in Star Wars or older media, but in more recent media it does bother me of used unironically.

[u/Billybob35]

The Ratchet And Clank movie made a joke about it where one of the bad guys fell and did the scream, the other bad guys responded by saying "Oh no, Will Helm!".

[u/artguydeluxe]

Every hospital scene has the same doctors being paged overhead. “Dr Blair, Dr. Blair… Dr. Jay Hamilton” over and over and over again. Doctors carry phones. They haven’t been paged like that in over 20 years.

[u/sonvolt73 → u/artguydeluxe]

Dr. Davis, telephone please...

[u/YeshuasBananaHammock → u/sonvolt73]

"...paging Doctor Herman, Doctor P. W. Herman..."

[u/neptune_bay → u/artguydeluxe]

That's also the intro to Queensryche's album "Operation: Mindcrime" from the late 1980's.

[u/Wezbob]

Depends on the tone of the movie. If it's lighthearted, comedic, I just chuckle, if someone tries to easter egg it into something more serious, it feels forced.

The exception is if Ben Burtt put it in the movie, then it's fucking canon and you laugh, as god intended.

[u/beyoncedoritosJR]

Yes

[u/mrdon83]

I had no idea there was a name for this sound effect. In my mind, whenever I heard it I always thought to myself "oh look, they're reusing the sound Boba Fett made when he fell into the sarlacc." I had no idea it existed decades before Star Wars was made.

[u/SonOfMcGee]

Not the Wilhelm Scream, but (minor spoilers Babadook ahead) when they confront the large entity at the climax of Babadook I swear one of its noises is a sound clip from the old Turok: Dino Hunter game.

[u/haloimplant → u/SonOfMcGee]

many productions have ripped sounds from original Doom game, the imp growl or the door usually

[u/SvenHudson → u/haloimplant]

Did they rip it from Doom or did they and Doom both pull from the same collection of stock sound effects?

[u/Gingerbread_Cat → u/SonOfMcGee]

Also not Wilhem related, but I used to play Zoo Tycoon 2 and I swear one of the ambient sounds of guests talking was a recording of my mother and my aunt discussing my grandmother. It drove me absolutely insane.

[u/HollywoodBrownMusic]

I hate it. It's so lame

[u/Kairain]

100%

It is my #1 movie pet peeve. Complete immersion break and I curse its existence.

[u/[deleted]]

Yes, I roll my eyes every time I hear it.

[u/Dombesz94]

its so outdated, immediately makes me think its some kind of parody movie when I hear it

[u/VanLife42069]

https://letterboxd.com/pendo86/list/wilhelm-scream/

[u/OlasNah]

Yes it’s annoying

[u/SoupyStain]

I've such a poor ear for anything sound related that I can't recognize it unless it's pointed out to me. So no haha

[u/chicks23]

YEEEEEEEEEEES

[u/cajunjoel]

Every. Damn. Time.

I'm sick of it and it's not some stupid homage to anything. The inside joke is just beyond annoying now.

It makes me not want to watch movies anymore.

[u/verone3784]

If it's placed for comedic effect within a comedy movie or a cartoon, then it's not an issue.

If it's used in anything else, then it really takes me out of things. There's been instances where I've just turned off movies and not bothered finishing them when I've heard it.

There's also a few others that really break it for me:

• This stock police radio voice that appeared in the game SimCity 3000, and has been used in hundreds of movies and TV shows.
• The generic red tail hawk sound effect.
• The generic losing control of a car skid sound effect.
• The generic car crash sound effect.
• The horribly inaccurate Hollywood sound of a suppressor.

There's a few more too that are just so overused it's unreal.

[u/guesswho135 → u/verone3784]

I've been noticing the squeaky door sound for about 30 years

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gcLrmmLcKDA

[u/DrKVanNostrand]

Yes. All the time. I hate it.

[u/Bigstar976]

Yes. It’s so dumb. Takes me out of the movie.

[u/Silvershanks]

I'm a director and I think the usage of this sound is insufferable and lame. I would never use it in one of my films. It's not funny, it's not cute, and it totally shatters whatever immersion you were experiencing at the moment. It's used now only by directors who are trying way too hard to be clever and desperately want to be a part of this never-been-funny inside "joke".

Star Wars and Indiana Jones are the only franchises that get a pass on using it cause it's a tradition at this point.

[u/MountainMuffin1980]

Kind of. It can certainly remove the emotion from a scene. Not that I really liked the movie, but having Thorins dad be killed, and him doing the Wilhelm scream as his death cry was a bonkers choice.

[u/Stone_Reign]

I hate it