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the first film to use that scream? POSSSIBLE SPOILER

posted 18 years ago by froggyar324
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this is the first film i remember hearing that SCREAM, on the infested boat.
just when the radio operator is sending the may day.

[–] alpha128 18 years ago

If you're referring to the "Wilhelm scream", the answer is no. Read more at the link below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream

[–] rwsmith29456 16 years ago

Thanks you guys! I didn't know that movie screams had names!

[–] bkosloskymd 16 years ago

See this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbYsoEasio

The Wilhelm scream is used 3 times in this movie.

[–] C-Cat 16 years ago

Another good scream used by Warner Brothers and possibly others is the one when Blackburn walks out of the hole in Gramps store and the ants get him. This is also the one used when Vincent Price falls into the boiling wax and gets fried at the end of "House of Wax"

If you can't fix it, fix it so nobody else can either!

[–] hobnob53 16 years ago

The "Blackburn scream" (?!) is also the one we hear actor Corey Allen (supposedly) yelling when his car goes over the cliff with him in it after drag-racing James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause.

I've heard of the Wilhelm scream but aren't sure which one it is. Someone said it's heard three times in Them!. Is one of those near the end, in the sewers -- from a soldier when a beam falls on him? I know I heard that scream elsewhere in this film, and in others. Thanks.

[–] nickm2 16 years ago

Hobnob:

Hello again..if you want to hear 'The Wilhelm Scream' just go to YouTube & enter it as a search parameter...it's chock full of tributes and parodies of the thing...you hear it & You'll know it!

Or you can cut n paste this one:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=the+wilhelm+scream&aq=0

NM

[–] hobnob53 16 years ago

Thanks, nickm! And I hope to pick up other conversations on other boards with you!

I was happy to see on tonight's Oscars that among the scenes they showed of James Whitmore in their Tribute section was one of him aiming his flamethrower at a Them!. Well done.

[–] etsis 16 years ago

Someone said it's heard three times in Them!. Is one of those near the end, in the sewers -- from a soldier when a beam falls on him?

Yes, and it's been awhile since I've seen it, but I think you hear it when James Whitmore gets it at the end as well.

[–] hobnob53 15 years ago

Must be something in the formic acid that makes all these different people scream exactly the same way!

[–] MystMoonstruck 13 years ago

I lost count and meant to write down the exact moments. But, I seem to recall at least four usages. Darn! I guess I'll just have to watch it again! *WHEE* (It was just shown on TCM as a 31 Days of Oscar film.)

I really need to watch it JUST for the scream someday. I get caught up in the movie.

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[–] nickm2 13 years ago

Well like that rap song goes, "The Legend starts in 1951, when you listen to the sound of 'Distant Drums'..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLp9rf9GRP8