Oct. 14, 2007 — -- You've probably never heard of it by name, but if you saw "Star Wars," "Indiana Jones" or even "Toy Story," you've heard the Wilhelm scream. Hollywood's best known sound effect ...

Ever since the Wilhelm Scream became a go-to sound effect in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, it has popped up in hundreds of movies, TV shows, and other forms of entertainment.

The Wilhelm scream has been around since Raoul Walsh’s 1951 film “Distant Drums,” a Gary Cooper Western for Warner Brothers that includes an interlude in Florida, during which a frontiersman ...

Creating the sounds of Star Wars involves a lot of imagination and experimentation. For example, Acord explains that Burtt’s TIE fighter audio incorporates an elephant scream and a race car on ...

“I sound like a beast,” the 19-year-old told me later. ... In other words, if Swift fans’ demon screaming sounds like an exorcism, it’s because that’s what it is.

For example, 100 per cent of the participants agreed that this sound was a scream. Sounds that maintained a more steady pitch were less likely to be perceived as a scream.