You know the sound effect, now check out the story behind the Wilhelm Scream. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. While the sound ...

Over 70 years ago, Roald Dahl proposed that plants could scream in a fictional story called The Sound Machine. He suggested they could shriek — a high-pitched shriek undetectable to the human ear.

If you’ve watched any franchise cinema from the past 70 years, chances are you’ve heard the Wilhelm Scream. Recorded for the Warner Bros. sound archives in the early 1950s, the exaggerated yowl can be ...

You have a sound argument if you want to build a case that an Oklahoman has been in as many big films as just about anybody. Here’s a sampling: “A Star is Born ...

From "A Star Is Born" to "Star Wars" to "Dial of Destiny," the Wilhelm scream keeps reminding us that movies are fun. When audiences hear the Wilhelm scream in “Dial of Destiny,” it’s sound designer ...

Mountain lions are known by many names: panthers, pumas, cougars, and catamounts, for example. However, there is one moniker that perfectly describes one of their more unusual characteristics: the ...