List of films using the Wilhelm scream

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The following is a list of some of the films which use the Wilhelm scream. The sound effect is frequently used by Skywalker Sound (particularly Ben Burtt, who gave it its name) and Weddington Sound, (particularly Richard L. Anderson).

Contents 1 Movie franchises and sequels 2 1950s 3 1960s 4 1970s 5 1980s 6 1990s 7 2000s

Movie franchises and sequels

• The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi
• Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Special Edition).
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and The Return of the King
• More American Graffiti (1979, the sequel to American Graffiti)
• Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990, the sequel to Gremlins)
• Batman Returns (1992)
• Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995, one of the Die Hard sequels)
• Lethal Weapon 4 (1998, one of the Lethal Weapon sequels)

1950s

• Distant Drums (1951, the original use of the sound. Used when a character is eaten by an alligator and when three Indians are shot.)
• Charge at Feather River (1953, the scream is uttered by the character Wilhelm, who gave his name to the scream, as well as by several other characters.)
• The Command (an indian is shot)
• Them! (1954)
• A Star Is Born (1954 version with Judy Garland)
• In the Land of the Pharaohs (1955) (the scream is emitted from inside a crocodile that has just eaten a man)
• The Sea Chase (1955)
• Helen of Troy

1960s

• Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
• Swiss Family Robinson (1960) (a pirate falls into a ravine during the climatic battle)
• PT 109 (1963)
• Harper
• The Green Berets (1968)
• The Wild Bunch (1969) (a member of the Bunch is shot in the face during the opening scene of the movie)

1970s

• Chisum
• Impasse
• The Scarlet Blade
• Hollywood Boulevard (1976)
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (a stormtrooper is shot by Leia and falls down a shaft in the Death Star - ironically, while the name "Wilhelm" is German, this scene was cut from the German version of the film)
• The Star Wars Holiday Special (stormtrooper falls off deck/balcony)
• More American Graffiti (1979)

1980s

• Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) (during the Hoth battle, a rebel soldier's defensive turret dish is destroyed)
• Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) (in the truck chase scene, a Nazi soldier falls off the truck)
• The Big Brawl
• Swamp Thing
• Poltergeist
• Explorers (1985)
• Howard the Duck
• Spaceballs (1987)
• Willow (1988) (when soldiers crash their carriage after chasing the heroes and when The Brownies manage to trigger a huge spear shooter that hits several enemy soldiers)
• Always
• Three Fugitives
• Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (when Luke kills one of Jabba the Hutt's guards above the Sarlacc Pit, and when Han throws a bag of charges at an Imperial officer on the Endor Moon)

1990s

• Gremlins 2 (1990)
• Legion of Iron
• Beauty and the Beast (1991)
• Batman Returns
• Mom and Dad Save the World
• Aladdin (1992)
• Reservoir Dogs (1992)
• Matinee (1993)
• Evening Class
• A Goofy Movie (1995)
• Toy Story
• Dante's Peak
• The Second Civil War (1997)
• Hercules (1997)
• The Fifth Element (1997)
• Titanic (1997)
• Small Soldiers (1998) (many action figures scream wilhelms when they die)
• Broken Arrow
• Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) (two Naboo security officers get shot in the Naboo hangar)

2000s

• Thirteen Days
• The Kid
• Just Visiting (2001)
• Tomcats
• Osmosis Jones
• Planet of the Apes (2001) (when General Thade throws two humans in the air)
• The Majestic (2001)
• Wet Hot American Summer
• Life or Something Like It
• The Salton Sea
• Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002) (in the beginning of the film, a ship explodes on Coruscant)
• Spider-Man (2002)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
• Scorched
• Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
• Kill Bill: Vol.1 (2003)
• Once Upon A Time In Mexico (2003)
• Agent Cody Banks (2003)
• Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) (After moving into her villa, Frances experiences a terrible thunderstorm. Listen very carefully when her washing machine is struck by lightning...)
• A Man Apart (2003)
• Tears of the Sun (2003)
• Hellboy (2003) (A Nazi scientist is sucked into the portal)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) (A Gondorian is dropped from the sky by a Nazgul and a Haradrim is knocked off a Mumakil by Legolas)
• Looney Tunes: Back In Action (2003)
• Peter Pan (2003) (--Unconfirmed--) (Alf Mason [the 'ugly' pirate] falls from rigging after being accidentally shot by Smee)
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
• Team America: World Police
• Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
• Sin City
• Family Guy
• American Dad
• Kingdom of Heaven (A Muslim soldier is knocked off from his siege tower when a trebuchet missile hits it)
• Star Wars: Clone Wars
• Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) (an artillery crew Clone Trooper is blown up in the opening starship battle)
• Madagascar (2005)
• Fantastic Four (2005)
• Land of the Dead
• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
• Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (By a villager, as the were-rabbit begins his rampage after picking up Lady Tottington near the end of the film)
• Get Rich or Die Trying
• Troy
• Æon Flux (Aeon shoots a guard off the ledge in the courtyard)
• Drawn Together
• King Kong (2005) (A sailor is pushed over a cliff by a dinosaur during the stampede)
• She's the Man (2006)

More detail on when the scream is used in many of these films is available from the personal website of Steve Lee, a sound effects librarian and designer who used it in A Goofy Movie, and the archives of NPR's On the Media.sv:Lista över filmer som använder Wilhelmskriket