.. Does anyone know what other films the gremlin-like screams have been used? I swear I've heard it in more than a couple of films, but I'm wracking my brains trying to think of what they are!
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According to wikipedia (so it aint necessarily so!) they used the sound of the Mahars from 1976s At the Earths Core (Doug McClure and Peter Cushing).
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shareI'm pretty sure you can also hear the same sound effect in "An American Werewolf in London" - remember the dream sequence where David Naughton has a nightmare about a bunch of monsters in Nazi uniforms invading his home and slaughtering him and his family? The Nazi monsters make the same screaming noise as the Slayers in "Krull".
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Wow! I never thought that those death screams were so popular! I used to imitate them myself when I was at middle school around the time that this movie came out!
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The scream is also used for the creature guarding the obolisk in the 2nd season episode of Space:1999 'A Matter of Balance'. Wow, that scream noise has been used a lot-- huh?
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The Wilhelm Scream ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream ) has definitely been used more often, but the scream in Krull definitely got a lot of use as well!
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I think the slayers were artifical organisms created by the Beast who seemed to be part mad-scientist. It's like the Beast found some weird, sentient, squid-like creatures from another world and implanted those into bipedal humanoid bio-constructs that the squids could operate within like a parasite. Then ouila, the Beast had his unnatural soldiers that would obey any orders. It doesn't seem that the slayers were mindless autonomons. In a one scene a slayer backs away from Ergo, who has morphed into a tiger. Fear denotes some kind of recognition of danger thus sentience and an android brain would not react in that fashion.
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