Hell Is That Noise/Film: Difference between revisions

* [[Star Wars]]

** [[Vader Breath|HHHHHHGGHHH-PHRRRRRR.]] [[Oh Crap|HHHHHGGGHHH-PHHHHRRRR.]]

* In ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', the Joker's [[Leitmotif]] plays whenever he is working his mischief or his nefarious plans are coming to fruition. The "music" is [[Psycho Strings|a single sustained violin chord]] followed by discordant strings that grow into a crescendo. The result is extremely unsettling, but often surprisingly subliminal.

** Hans Zimmer apparently used some unique methods to achieve the sound, like striking razor blades against cello strings.

** ''[[Batman Begins]]'' has a similar sound for Batman when he's attacking mooks on the docks.

* ''[[Silence of the Lambs]]'': "Thhhp-thp-thp-thp-thp-thp-thp-thp."

** "Hello, Clarice."

** The [[Sinister Scraping Sound]] that lets people know [[Oh Crap|a certain guest is coming]].

* ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'': The sound of Eddie screaming, and the sound of Frank hacking him to pieces with a pick-axe.

** When the music takes darker turns, as in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwJAQ4GEgIc Wybie], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXJQJJoJLas Ghost Children], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG7VY7Q4eEk&feature=PlayList&p=DCD67CE98D531DCE&index=27 Dangerous], and a host of other cues, the music becomes strongly rhythmic and otherworldly.

** The song for "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpfgFnhgf-8&feature=PlayList&p=DCD67CE98D531DCE&index=9 The Supper]" does it best. Cooing boys choir, clanging bells, and the omnipresent glass harmonica are joined by the occasional piano, ghostly sound effects, and meaningless lyrics sung by various solos.

* ''[[Children of Men]]'': Jasper's "Zen Music" he enjoys so much.

** "You know that high-pitched ringing sound you hear? That '''eeeeeeeeee'''? That's the sound of the ear cells dying, like their swan song. Once it's gone you'll never hear that frequency again. Enjoy it while it lasts."

* ''[[Drag Me to Hell]]'' uses this quite effectively.

** For example, in one scene, {{spoiler|Christine is alone in her house at night when she starts hearing strange noises, including screeching sounds, creaking, and thumps from above. The lights then go out, some hanging pots and pans suddenly clang together, and then light enters the house showing the shadow of a demonic figure. An invisible force then blasts her backwards into a counter, leaving her with a bloody lip.}}

* The music that opens ''[[There Will Be Blood]]''.

** The same musical device is used in [[The Hurt Locker]] to enhance the [[Oh Crap]] moment when James realizes that the wire he found {{spoiler|1=was attached to a daisy chain of a half-dozen or so IEDs}}.

** In the original, at the end, after {{spoiler|Loomis shoots Michael six times, and the body just disappears}}, we hear that theme, with Michael's heavy breathing in the background.

* Don't watch ''Come and See'' if you like twin-boom aircraft.

* The movie ''[[Audition]]'' had "Kiri kiri kiri kiri kiiiii....". Coupled with a SLOW [[Eye Scream]].

** Except that the opening of Tubular Bells (the part used by ''The Exorcist'') is the most creepy part of that song (all 44 minutes of it). And then only because it was used in ''The Exorcist''. The final part of that two-part song is a ''Sailors Hornpipe''.

* ''[[Paranormal Activity]]'' has a {{spoiler|a trigger sound of the presence arriving to do its business, which sounds like some sort of rumbling, which was probably meant to be the audio track being distorted by the presence.}}

** "Liberate.... me..." Free me. {{spoiler|Except that's all they could hear over the horrible distortion and grisly screams. It's later found out to be "liberate tuteme ex infernis", or "save yourself from hell." And the sounds were the crew and ship tearing each other - and themselves - apart in a horrible orgy of violence and madness.}} One of the more literal interpretations of [[Hell Is That Noise|the trope in question]].

* ''[[Night of the Demon]]'' features a high-pitched chittering sound that precedes the appearance of said demon, or at least threatens imminent arrival.

* The "ping" sound of the sonar picking up the enemy sub in ''[[Das Boot]]''.

** ''[[The Remake|I can make you mine, so all I have to do is dream...]]''

* [[Bad Vibrations|Boom....boom.....boom....boom...]] ''[[Godzilla|"SKREEEEEOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNK!"]]''

* Clicking noises and baby monitors. A winning combination in ''[[Signs]]''.

** The Bennings-Thing's scream. It still disturbs many fans of the movie. And in some fanfics, it causes a reaction of horror in the individual cells of any non-Thing life form.

** The combinations of sounds from the Jed/Kennel Thing. Especially that insect droning.

* The titular [[Piranha]] announce themselves with a watery echoing gargling/burbling chitter. It's creepy to young impressionable ears, but when you're older it sounds like a flock of scuba-diving turkeys.

* The dissonant, horrifying "Sand Choir" from the 1953 movie ''Invaders from Mars''. See [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ury5b-qtI1Y&playnext_from=TL&videos=LGzBSVz-hwM here].

* That horrific noise made by the [[Creepy Doll|Zuni Fetish Doll]] in the ''Trilogy of Terror'' as he attacks the main character Amelia and as he's being burned in the oven.

* That ''scream'' in ''[[The Millennium Trilogy|Men Who Hate Women]]''. It will haunt you in your dreams, as well as return later in the series.

** The music that plays when Beverly's dad leaves the bathroom after he doesn't even notice when the sink starts spewing blood and Beverly is left alone crying to herself.

** The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC4zgfVj-K4 theme song] and intro music.

** How about it playing back the soldiers' conversation?

* The squawk Bing's violin makes when {{spoiler|the shadows swallow him}} in [[Mirror Mask|Mirrormask]].

** For such a silly, entertaining movie, the eerie howls that can occasionally be heard in the background (such as when Galahad's limping towards Castle Anthrax) are genuinely disturbing. Can you imagine being in the rain, wounded, locked outside a castle, listening to those mournful howls come closer and closer?

* In the second [[Tremors]] movie, about 48 minutes into the movie the [[Sand Worm|Graboid]] screams, and it is one of the most chilling sounds you'll ever hear.

* An innocent child's laughter should be heartwarming, right? Take that very same laugh, place it in the woods in the dead of night. Courtesy of ''[[The Blair Witch Project]].''

** Especially that quiet heartbeat sound right before the chestburster.

* ''[[Hostel|Hostel Part 2]]'', that woman rubbing the tip of the scythe against [[Heather Matarazzo]]'s skin, and then her ''screams''.

* [[Dracula]]. Renfield's laugh. "Nhnn, hnn, hnn, hnn, hnnnnn..."

* Oh god, [[Eraserhead]]. Throughout the whole movie, there are a lot of jump scares involving noise, like the artificial chickens, the {{spoiler|demon baby thing getting sick}}, and the sound of a baby crying. For about fifteen minutes straight. The last ten minutes or so are nothing but high pitched static and the sounds of a baby screaming.

* [[The Loved Ones]] tells the story of a deranged girl who kidnaps a boy and tortures him. One of the first things she does is inject his vocal chords with bleach to silence him. When she eventually begins her [[Cold-Blooded Torture]] his resulting screams are this trope times a thousand.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmEhIvQEIMY&feature=related You hear that?] That's [[Inglorious Basterds|Sergeant Donny Donowitz]]. But you might know him better by his nickname...

* [[Archangel Gabriel|Gabriel's]] horn in ''[[Legion]]'', which sounds like the sky turned into a big sub-woofer.

* Indio's watch chime in ''[[For a Few Dollars More]]''. Every time it plays, you know someone is going to die horribly.

* In a literal, but no less terrifying, case is the horror film ''Nine Miles Down''. The movie takes place in a remote scientific camp where they have drilled down below the Earth's crust. The only person left on the base shows our main character a sound recording the scientists made from the hole. At first, it just sounds like the wind. As the recording is adjusted, it becomes the screams of the Damned in Hell.

* ''[[Saw]]'''s recurring theme, "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWaNoK3gN6M Hello Zepp]". When you hear that opening rhythm, you know things are about to [[It Got Worse|get very, very bad]].

* ''[[Finding Nemo]]'': The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W21lwD_viYo&feature=related music] being played when Marlin loses sight of the boat. It's just chilling.

** Similarly, the spine-chilling violin at the beginning of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lphNyQ9JOP0&feature=related ''The Exodus''] is [[Paranoia Fuel]] '''incarnate'''; able to make something like walking into work an exercise in looking over your shoulder. It plays as Ron's Horcrux-enhanced suspicions about Harry and Hermione grow along with their sense of desperation, and the WWN lists off the names of all the witches and wizards who have disappeared...

* ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]'': The whole clock scene. Even before Ratigan freaked out, the sound of the cogs going was just eerie.

* ''[[Lost Highway]]'': The sound of the Mystery [[Uncanny Valley Makeup|Man]] [[Evil Laugh|laughing]].

* The metallic droning screech given off when the spaceship starts up in District9 District

* In the movie Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story {{spoiler|the presence of the samurai armor clad demon}} is accompanied by convincingly realistic off-screen shrieks of agony and fear. Considering where this {{spoiler|demon}} had just supposedly come from, this might be the most literal example of this trope yet.

* ''[[The Haunted Mansion]]'': The ringing telephone in the middle of the empty secret corridor.

* ''Pontypool'': Sydney Briar is alive. Sydney Briar is alive. Sydney Briar is alive.

 

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