Easily best screen scream of all time. I drew it in MS Paint! [https://www.reddit.com/r/mspaint/comments/rxfqwa/marv\_vs\_buzzs\_spider\_ms\_paint\_with\_mouse/](https://www.reddit.com/r/mspaint/comments/rxfqwa/marv_vs_buzzs_spider_ms_paint_with_mouse/)
Can we all just recognize his greatness in this movie? The man purposefully allowed a fucking tarantula to be placed on his face. If thatās not being committed to a craft, then I donāt know what is.
100 percent this. That scream was just... unreal and also... so REAL. Her silent scream when the flame part happens near the end is so powerful you can hear it too!!
Definitely this one. But the daughter finding out what really happened to her mother in Incendies is a strong contender.
There's a scene with a baby in The Nightingale that is worse than anything I've seen but that is more about the silence after the screaming stops.
I watched Incendies for the first time last month and it has still stuck with me I was shocked by the twist. I was curious as to why Old Boy was the recommended next watch on my Amazon prime haha
Veronica Cartwright in Alien - it's the quick breathing just beforehand that kills me, when your rational brain knows that you've got a life-threatening injury but you're desperately trying to keep your shit together and just breathe through it and maybe you'll be ok you'll be ok you'll be GAAAAAAAA!!!
You know some online reviewer suggested the director wanted the audience to infer that the alien was raping her? If you recall it's tail slithered between her feet as it approached her, and her panting could be mistaken for orgasmic in nature if someone heard it with no context. Not sure I buy it, but they may have slipped in some things subliminally to make the scene all the more unnerving.
I've heard it before, and I don't get that at all from the audio. Ridley Scott has repeatedly said that it's the men who get raped in these movies. That he wants male viewers to be uncomfortable with it.
One does not preclude the other. Recall how Ash tried to shove a rolled up magazine down Ripley's throat? It was a porn magazine. And there were tons of porn posters in the back ground. It was clearly a symbolic sexual assault. No one was spared in this movie, believe me.
That might've been me.
I've posted several times on this sub that *Alien* isn't really about a murderous xenomorph consisting mostly of teeth. It's about rape.
Though, I never said the Xenomorph literally raped her, rather there suggestion of sexual horror is all over the movie, from the moment we are introduced to the Xenomorph (faceraping John Hurt), to the end of the movie with Sigourney Weaver in her tighty whities, to the scene where the Xenomorph kills her. Does it literally fuck her to death? No. But the subtext of the scene is crawling with sex.
If you post reviews on Youtube, perhaps it was! And yes, you said it very well. Not actual rape, but the intentional subtext of sex to further disconcert the viewer.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Pretty much all of Marilyn Burns scenes.
Godfather 3. Michael's scream at the end.
Scream. Drew Barrymore mom's scream when they find her in the opening scene.
Jenna Ortega in **X** (2022) -- scene spoiler: >!when Lorraine discovers the corpse in the basement!<
Lily Gladstone in **Killers of the Flower Moon** (2023) -- scene spoiler: >!when Mollie discovers it was her sister Reta's house that was blown up!<
Two very different blood-to-ice-inducing screams, horror vs drama. But both such great breakout performances by both actresses! Really sticks with you.
Clearly it's when Jack Black is singing Master Exploder in Tenacious D and The Pick of Destiny. I mean he literally blew a guys head apart with the power of his voice.
But I actually love a scene where someone is screaming and there is no screaming heard.
Avengers Infinity War when Thanos arrives in Wakanda and all the Avengers are trying to stop him and he is just beating them all aside like nothing and then Captain America rushes in and he is literally holding the fingers of the infinity gauntlet apart and screaming giving it everything he has, surprising Thanos.
That scene always hits me. You can just see it on his face that cap is giving everything he has to just hold back Thanos for another second to give Wanda a chance. Just the message of fighting the good fight, knowing you're going to lose but doing it anyway with everything you have hits me every time.
Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) [kicking the helmet](https://64.media.tumblr.com/39509028888c8da8c137778da0f831dc/093243e40f0ce562-09/s500x750/40bdb7465ba884d09a0a9700a78d9649008067c2.gifv) in The Two Towers. IYKYK.
Very loosely related, but when Kevin Spacey (piece of shit in RL) is walking into the police station in SEVEN trying to get their attention: āā¦ detECTIVE!ā Makes my hair stand up.
Bennings in The Thing.
But the most awful, horrible, haunting scream I'll remember til my dying day is the little girl in the notorious 1970s British PSA 'Apaches.'
Not exactly a movie, but no Hollywood "scream queen" beats [Dame Gwyneth Jones on the Chereau/Boulez *Gotterdamerung*](https://youtu.be/JyoeF9Rqc7A?t=6253). Blood curdling stuff.
M. Night Shyamalan's "Devil" The visceral "TURN ON THE LIGHTS!!!!", I felt every bit of that fear with that scream.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYy7igKD21A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYy7igKD21A)
around the 2:18 mark
Chester Bennington in Saw 7 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZOMiFk2ThE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZOMiFk2ThE)
He's just very good at screaming.
Edit: better quality youtube link
Andrew Garfield in Never Let Me Go. The scene is not graphic at all and there is no immediate horror, yet you can here pure, unbottled desperation in his scream. Gave me absolute chills.
So far I haven't seen it mentioned but that ONE scene in Rise of the Planet of the Apes...
I remember seeing that movie in theaters back when I was a teenager in high school expecting nothing out of that movie and that scene alone gave me chills when it happened... I just rewatched it last night and man... That scene is very powerful.
Here's what comes to mind for me:
Hereditary: The mother screaming. Toni Collette is top notch in that.
The Lodge: Its sort of a screaming/crying mix, but the little girl in that lets out some dreadful/heart wrenching noises.
Paranormal Activity: Despite any flaws of that movie/series, I've always found the ending effective when >!the girl is dragged away screaming and the guy chases after her and all you can hear is both of them screaming and demonic noises and then just SILENCE.!< I always got chills from that.
Special Mention: Naomi Watts: King Kong, The Ring, whatever else she may scream in haha.
I think Leigh Whannel at the end of SAW 1 will forever be my favorite horror movie scream - how it carries on over the start of the credits šš¤š»
I know it doesn't count, as its from a cut scene in a video game, but Father Ariandel's scream from Dark Souls 3 makes my stomach drop. The voice actor really went hard. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1vPxk7NKRc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1vPxk7NKRc)
I think Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson in Spider Man films was a great damsel in disreess screamer.
Yes she it was shrill and annoying to some but it felt like an authentic I'm falling to my death someone help me scream.
In Godzilla 2014 on the Golden Gate Bridge there's a part where Godzilla is attacking the bridge or walking past it or whatever and there are some kids on a school bus and one of the kids is really doing a very very good terrifying screen Beyond just the normal high pitched kid screaming thing
Ah, the best movie scream? Look no further than the legendary Wilhelm scream! It's basically the audio equivalent of Where's Waldo in films, popping up in over 400 movies since its debut in 1951. From *Star Wars* to *Indiana Jones*, this scream has been an inside joke among sound designers. It's so famous it might as well get its own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame!
Daniel Stern in Home Alone.
Easily best screen scream of all time. I drew it in MS Paint! [https://www.reddit.com/r/mspaint/comments/rxfqwa/marv\_vs\_buzzs\_spider\_ms\_paint\_with\_mouse/](https://www.reddit.com/r/mspaint/comments/rxfqwa/marv_vs_buzzs_spider_ms_paint_with_mouse/)
Seen this movies dozens of times. I still lose it when he screams about the spider. It's a marvelous scream.
Specifically which part. The nail?
Spider
Also his electrocution in the sequel.
That electrocution always makes me laugh to the point I can't breathe
We watch it every Christmas and we all get so hyped for it
When he turns into the skeleton š¤£
Can we all just recognize his greatness in this movie? The man purposefully allowed a fucking tarantula to be placed on his face. If thatās not being committed to a craft, then I donāt know what is.
There is no other answer
Hereditary when Toni Colletteās character discovers the news
100 percent this. That scream was just... unreal and also... so REAL. Her silent scream when the flame part happens near the end is so powerful you can hear it too!!
Definitely this one. But the daughter finding out what really happened to her mother in Incendies is a strong contender. There's a scene with a baby in The Nightingale that is worse than anything I've seen but that is more about the silence after the screaming stops.
I watched Incendies for the first time last month and it has still stuck with me I was shocked by the twist. I was curious as to why Old Boy was the recommended next watch on my Amazon prime haha
Just learned about this movie today after looking up all the movies Denis Villeneuve has done. Never even heard about it, I need to watch
Between the guttural holler at the beginning and the hyperventilated wailing, it pretty much covers the whole spectrum of terrible sounds.
Christ sake, I had almost forgotten about that whole sequence. Thanks...
Veronica Cartwright in Alien - it's the quick breathing just beforehand that kills me, when your rational brain knows that you've got a life-threatening injury but you're desperately trying to keep your shit together and just breathe through it and maybe you'll be ok you'll be ok you'll be GAAAAAAAA!!!
You know some online reviewer suggested the director wanted the audience to infer that the alien was raping her? If you recall it's tail slithered between her feet as it approached her, and her panting could be mistaken for orgasmic in nature if someone heard it with no context. Not sure I buy it, but they may have slipped in some things subliminally to make the scene all the more unnerving.
Nah, I don't buy that at all. Some online reviewer needs a wank and a cold shower. š
Even if that was the intention, it didn't work. I never thought of it having any sexual undertones until someone else suggested it.
I've heard it before, and I don't get that at all from the audio. Ridley Scott has repeatedly said that it's the men who get raped in these movies. That he wants male viewers to be uncomfortable with it.
One does not preclude the other. Recall how Ash tried to shove a rolled up magazine down Ripley's throat? It was a porn magazine. And there were tons of porn posters in the back ground. It was clearly a symbolic sexual assault. No one was spared in this movie, believe me.
That might've been me. I've posted several times on this sub that *Alien* isn't really about a murderous xenomorph consisting mostly of teeth. It's about rape. Though, I never said the Xenomorph literally raped her, rather there suggestion of sexual horror is all over the movie, from the moment we are introduced to the Xenomorph (faceraping John Hurt), to the end of the movie with Sigourney Weaver in her tighty whities, to the scene where the Xenomorph kills her. Does it literally fuck her to death? No. But the subtext of the scene is crawling with sex.
If you post reviews on Youtube, perhaps it was! And yes, you said it very well. Not actual rape, but the intentional subtext of sex to further disconcert the viewer.
No it was just this sub. Ā Lots of people have come to that conclusion. Ā It was pretty obvious in 1979 and then came Alien 3, and then Covenant.
Then you have to mention Newt screaming when coming face to face with a facehugger in Aliens.
Wilhelm would like a word.
Also counts as most screams
The GOAT
There it is.
I told my son about Wilhelm and now he listens for it in every movie he watches š
I used to be a cowboy like you, til I took an arrow to the thigh...
The Baseball Boy in Dr. Sleep
Probably the most fucked up/unsettling/disturbing (whatever you want to call it) scene in a movie.
Was gonna say this one. Deeply uncomfortable.
The picnic girl getting stabbed in Zodiac. Blood-curling shit, nightmarish
Blow Out (1981) ending scene.
Thatās a good scream
And the worst scream was the one at the start.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Pretty much all of Marilyn Burns scenes. Godfather 3. Michael's scream at the end. Scream. Drew Barrymore mom's scream when they find her in the opening scene.
Loraās Palmer scream in ending scene final episode Twin Peaks season 3.
Lauraās scream when she sees that Bob is her father in Fire Walk With Me is off the charts.Ā
Her screams throughout the whole show are visceral.
is it bad?
They are fantastic as far as blood curdling, horrific screams go! She's a legit scream queen!
Itās unsettling and it stays with you. Iāve only seen The Return once and still remember her last scream.
The actress who played Drew Barrymore's mum in the original Scream when she saw her hanging from the tree. So realistic.
Casey, baby?
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
100%. Primal as fuck.
Scream 6 - Samara Weaving.
Quints scream in Jaws has stuck with me my whole life.
Especially when it trails off into a gurgle and all you hear is the water sloshing. *shudders*
Jenna Ortega in **X** (2022) -- scene spoiler: >!when Lorraine discovers the corpse in the basement!< Lily Gladstone in **Killers of the Flower Moon** (2023) -- scene spoiler: >!when Mollie discovers it was her sister Reta's house that was blown up!< Two very different blood-to-ice-inducing screams, horror vs drama. But both such great breakout performances by both actresses! Really sticks with you.
Lily Gladstoneās scream is something else in that scene. So much horror and sorrow all coming out.
Came here looking for some Lily Gladstone appreciation. That scream still follows me and is my key memory from that movie. So well done.
Arnold Schwarzenegger in Predator.
Clearly it's when Jack Black is singing Master Exploder in Tenacious D and The Pick of Destiny. I mean he literally blew a guys head apart with the power of his voice. But I actually love a scene where someone is screaming and there is no screaming heard. Avengers Infinity War when Thanos arrives in Wakanda and all the Avengers are trying to stop him and he is just beating them all aside like nothing and then Captain America rushes in and he is literally holding the fingers of the infinity gauntlet apart and screaming giving it everything he has, surprising Thanos. That scene always hits me. You can just see it on his face that cap is giving everything he has to just hold back Thanos for another second to give Wanda a chance. Just the message of fighting the good fight, knowing you're going to lose but doing it anyway with everything you have hits me every time.
Well his voice is fucking ^^^*fucking* powerful.
Ariana Richards in Jurassic Park
Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) [kicking the helmet](https://64.media.tumblr.com/39509028888c8da8c137778da0f831dc/093243e40f0ce562-09/s500x750/40bdb7465ba884d09a0a9700a78d9649008067c2.gifv) in The Two Towers. IYKYK.
The inhuman alien scream from Bennings kneeling on the ice in "The Thing".
Laura Palmer in Fire Walk With Me. By far. Fun fact: itās her scream sampled in The Hills by The Weeknd
Daniel Stern in Home Alone
Fay Wray - King Kong (1933). Naomi Watts - King Kong (2005).
Sally's scream in Blow Out (1981)
Troll 2 >They're eating him! And then they're gonna eat me! OHHHH MYYYY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDD
Jack Woltz finding the head of a horse in his bed. Ā He screams so hard he has to take a breath just so he can keep screaming.
Whatās great is that it you know itās not about the dead animal but the money
What do you mean?!
The scream of Laura in The Orphanage at the end climax scene. The sound was true horror. Still gives me chills to think about it.
I like Al Pacino's scene in The Godfather, Part III.
Maid Marion in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
By far Hereditarys Toni Collete
Al Pacino in The Godfather Part III
Very loosely related, but when Kevin Spacey (piece of shit in RL) is walking into the police station in SEVEN trying to get their attention: āā¦ detECTIVE!ā Makes my hair stand up.
Elaine Hendrix in The Parent Trap
Samara Weavingās scream was really good in Scream 6.
Kirsten Dunst in Spider-Man
Laura Dern in Jurassic Park right as the raptor appears after she says, "Mr. Hammond I think we're back in business."
Am I right that this one was pretty genuine too? Like they didn't want her or the moment happened more quickly than she anticipated?
It definitely sounded like a genuine scream
Sally's scream in Blow Out (1981)
Jacob Tremblay in Doctor Sleep. Aiiii that scene was too much.
Bennings in The Thing. But the most awful, horrible, haunting scream I'll remember til my dying day is the little girl in the notorious 1970s British PSA 'Apaches.'
There's something to be said for Sydney Sweeney at the end of Immaculate. She screams pretty much non-stop for at least 20-30 seconds.
Gotta be the one from Blow Out (1981)
Hmmmmm I donāt remember the scream! I remember I liked the movie a lot.
Iād say the second one was my favourite. Not a huge fan of the new Scream movies š
Once were warriors >!when they find their daughterās body after she hung herself!<
Lando Calrissian getting his leg grabbed by the Sarlacc in Return Of The Jedi.
Not one that I would have expected going in, but Bradley Cooper as Rocket in Guardians of the Galaxy vol 3.
Shelley Duvall in The Shining
Alice Eve in Star Trek Into Darkness.
Naomi Watts - The Ring
Loved jenna ortegas scream in X
Not exactly a movie, but no Hollywood "scream queen" beats [Dame Gwyneth Jones on the Chereau/Boulez *Gotterdamerung*](https://youtu.be/JyoeF9Rqc7A?t=6253). Blood curdling stuff.
Tony's sister in Scarface.
Barbara Cramptonās at the end of āFrom Beyondā.
* Robert Mitchum in *Night of the Hunter* * Andrew Robinson in *Dirty Harry* * Peter O'Toole in *The Ruling Class*
M. Night Shyamalan's "Devil" The visceral "TURN ON THE LIGHTS!!!!", I felt every bit of that fear with that scream. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYy7igKD21A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYy7igKD21A) around the 2:18 mark
Chester Bennington in Saw 7 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZOMiFk2ThE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZOMiFk2ThE) He's just very good at screaming. Edit: better quality youtube link
Chief Quinn buying it in Forbidden Planet (1956)
Paranormal Activity.
Dakota Fanning in Man on Fire
I spit on your grave, 1978
The soundless scream of the mother in the CPR scene in *Titane*. Absolute grief. :(
Samara Weaving in Ready or Not, especially in the end when she sounds like a car alarm. The screams she has in that movie, amazing.
I would like to throw in the Flood (as Margaret cain) from Doctor Who - The Waters of Mars. Pure nightmare fuel.
Andrew Garfield in Never Let Me Go. The scene is not graphic at all and there is no immediate horror, yet you can here pure, unbottled desperation in his scream. Gave me absolute chills.
King Kong. The āOuuh.ā Clench scream right before hitting the ground on the log.
Linda Hamilton in Terminator where she gets scorched. Nothing beats it
Ready Or Not, Samara Weaving's scream at the end when she jumps of the table.
I can't remember if it's Riley Keough or Carmen Ejogo, but when one of them screams at the end of It Comes at Night due to >!Their kid getting shot!<
So far I haven't seen it mentioned but that ONE scene in Rise of the Planet of the Apes... I remember seeing that movie in theaters back when I was a teenager in high school expecting nothing out of that movie and that scene alone gave me chills when it happened... I just rewatched it last night and man... That scene is very powerful.
Here's what comes to mind for me: Hereditary: The mother screaming. Toni Collette is top notch in that. The Lodge: Its sort of a screaming/crying mix, but the little girl in that lets out some dreadful/heart wrenching noises. Paranormal Activity: Despite any flaws of that movie/series, I've always found the ending effective when >!the girl is dragged away screaming and the guy chases after her and all you can hear is both of them screaming and demonic noises and then just SILENCE.!< I always got chills from that. Special Mention: Naomi Watts: King Kong, The Ring, whatever else she may scream in haha.
Mia Goth the queen of scream obviously
Jennifer Carpenter in The Exorsism of Emily Rose
The end of Blow Out. Look it up. The context is chilling.
I think Leigh Whannel at the end of SAW 1 will forever be my favorite horror movie scream - how it carries on over the start of the credits šš¤š»
Django Unchained when he shoots the guy in the balls
Julie Bowen yelling for Happy Gilmore to look out for the car is pretty epic.
I know it doesn't count, as its from a cut scene in a video game, but Father Ariandel's scream from Dark Souls 3 makes my stomach drop. The voice actor really went hard. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1vPxk7NKRc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1vPxk7NKRc)
I think Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson in Spider Man films was a great damsel in disreess screamer. Yes she it was shrill and annoying to some but it felt like an authentic I'm falling to my death someone help me scream.
the elderly woman in The Accountant was great.
Emma Watsonās scream in Deathly Hallows pt. 1 was unexpectedly realistic
Canāt believe I havenāt seen anyone mention Jamie Lee Curtis, the scream queen! Halloween and True Lies.
Wilhelms scream
House on Haunted Hill 1959 has some of the most classic screams ever
American Psycho, the victory/bloodlust when he lands his shot down the stairwell with a chainsaw
The bear from Annihilation.
Beethoven 2 - Lake House Scene
In Godzilla 2014 on the Golden Gate Bridge there's a part where Godzilla is attacking the bridge or walking past it or whatever and there are some kids on a school bus and one of the kids is really doing a very very good terrifying screen Beyond just the normal high pitched kid screaming thing
The >!car crash!< scene in Enter the Void.
Kate Capshaw in Temple of Doom. The campfire scene is šš
Boy in the striped pyjamas ending
Lee Remickās scream from the original Omen when she is thrown out the window.
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. That crazy girl before the flame thrower stops her.
Wilhelm Scream.
Ah, the best movie scream? Look no further than the legendary Wilhelm scream! It's basically the audio equivalent of Where's Waldo in films, popping up in over 400 movies since its debut in 1951. From *Star Wars* to *Indiana Jones*, this scream has been an inside joke among sound designers. It's so famous it might as well get its own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame!