The Wilhelm

The Wilhelm scream is a stock sound effect of a scream that was recorded 1951 and has since then been featured in tons of movies.



The list of movies that use the Wilhelm is quite staggering and includes:

• The Star Wars films


• The Indiana Jones movies


• The Lord of the Rings movies


• The Die Hard movies


• Lethal Weapon 4


• Spaceballs


• Reservoir Dogs


• Aladdin


• Toy Story


• Spider-Man


• Kill Bill


• ...

and I thought that software programmers are lazy!