Christmas Eve 1951. Werner and Mylène are looking forward to a cosy evening with turkey and presents when the doorbell rings. It's Sam, Werner's colleague. He has discovered that Werner has been falsifying the books for several months and wants the money back. This is the beginning of a night full of surprises with unexpected plots and where nothing is what is seems.
My good friend Tony Duggan-Smith built this musical (?) instrument for me, with the intention of using it in horror film score.
It consists of metal rulers which are bowed, a hurdy gurdy like mechanism, a string played with an attached Ebow, a spring reverb (also played with an ebow) some long metal rods, magnets, trash, anything at all to get unnerving sounds.
http://www.cinexcellence.com/2011/05/complete-list-of-wilhelm-screams/
THE WILHELM SCREAM
is a popular stock scream used in countless films, tv shows, and video games. It was recorded in 1951 for Distant Drums, but found it's infamy when sound magician Ben Burtt snuck it into the films he was working on, especially Star Wars and Indiana Jones.
This video is a (pretty) complete collection of the films that The Wilhelm Scream has been in.
Note: There are different takes of the Wilhelm Scream from the original recording. The most popular version is take 4, but you will hear other versions as well.
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