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!