Hey, Why is "That" In This Movie\TV Show?

[n_huffhines]

The Furry scene in The Shining - that part always makes me have a "wtf" moment.

Just recently my Dad brought this up. We were talking about this movie and he had no idea what a furry was or what was going on in this scene, which made it really creepy to him. When I explained it's a type of fetish I think he decided he would have rather not known, LOL.

 

[coffeecountyvol]

The "Wilhelm Scream".

The most famous of which, IMO, is shortly before Boba Fett's "death" at the Pit of Sarlacc.

It can be heard in many other films. Usually as an extra character plunges to his death.

I don't know why it's used so often, only that it is.

I think that I heard that at least twice this weekend.

 

[orangeblooded2]

The "Wilhelm Scream".

The most famous of which, IMO, is shortly before Boba Fett's "death" at the Pit of Sarlacc.

It can be heard in many other films. Usually as an extra character plunges to his death.

I don't know why it's used so often, only that it is.

The Wilhelm scream is a film and television stock sound effect that has been used in more than 200 movies, beginning in 1951 for the film Distant Drums. The scream is often used when someone is shot, falls from a great height, or is thrown from an explosion.

Most likely voiced by actor and singer Sheb Wooley, the sound is named after Private Wilhelm, a character in The Charge at Feather River, a 1953 western in which the character gets shot with an arrow. This was its first use from the Warner Bros. stock sound library, although The Charge at Feather River is believed to have been the third movie to use the effect.

The effect gained new popularity (its use often becoming an in-joke) after it was used in Star Wars, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Indiana Jones series, Disney cartoons and many other blockbuster films as well as many television programs and video games.

 

[FLVOL_79]

Army of Darkness 1992


When Ash finally decides to stand and fight against the Deadites, he goes to his car to retrieve some chemistry books, in order to soup-up his medieval buddies’ defences. Nestled in the trunk is a copy of horror bible Fangoria, given a shout-out by Raimi as a thank you for the way in which they got behind the original Evil Dead.

Why So Clever: Good old Sam knows who his friends are. Perhaps more impressive is the fact that one of the aforementioned chemistry texts crops up again in Spider-Man, when Peter Parker drops an armful of books at school.

In Evil Dead 2 after Ash chops off his hand and traps it with books, the top book is A Farewell To Arms..

 

[FLVOL_79]

Three of the aliens working on Jabba’s sail barge are named Klaatu, Barada and Nikto, a reference to the robot-foiling codewords in The Day The Earth Stood Still.

Also the words required to be spoken by Ash in Army of Darkness, to retrieve the Necronomicon.