Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
213,561
edits
Hell Is That Noise/Live-Action TV: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
m (Mass update links) |
No edit summary |
||
| (5 intermediate revisions by 3 users not shown) | |||
Line 1:
{{trope}}
* Shows up in just about every ''[[Are You Afraid of the Dark?]]'' episode whenever a kid suspects something scary lies behind a closed door or something similar, complete with whispery "Oooooh Oooooh" sounds and blaring high notes on something that sounds like a trumpet/trombone.
** For many a troper, the channel was immediately changed upon hearing the ominous sound accompanying the picture of the empty rowboat.
* The creepy music in the background during the infamous "Beat-Stuffing Scene" of Nip/Tuck. That scene was terrifying, but that horrible music just MADE it.
* Many music tracks in the present ''[[Doctor Who]]'' TV series contain the sound of an alarm bell ringing; when it's time to be alarmed.
** Also, the "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC3pkx3ZfHQ electronic heartbeat]" noise made by [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|Dalek]] technology.
** [[Zombie Apocalypse|"Are]] [[The Virus|you]] [[Our Zombies Are Different|my]] mummy?"
*** [[Oh Crap|Click]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNQy9Y4-IwY&feature=related click, click, click...]
*** Same thing goes for [[Nightmare Fuel|"Hey! Who turned out the lights?..."]] Hardly surprising given it's coming from {{spoiler|a freaking ambulatory spacesuit occupied by a skeleton and a swarm of microscopic flesh-eaters.}}
Line 13:
*** And you know what's even scarier? They're not doing the Master's drumbeat. They're ''singing the theme song.'' The Master's drumbeat was in the theme song from the very first season of Doctor Who.
** Then there's the footsteps of the Cybermen in the new series. Whoever thought something that sounds like a stapler-gun could be so creepy?
** Doctor Who loves this trope, especially in the new series. Aside from the aforementioned examples, there's "EXTERMINATE", the ticking of Clockwork Androids, the echoing of whatever that ''[[Nothing Is Scarier|thing]]'' in [[Doctor Who
** The Weeping Angels now have two more horrible sounds to their credit. One is their laughter, an awful squealing sound of stones scraping each other, and the second is {{spoiler|the low crunching sound as they move on-screen}}.
** The sort of rustling noise that plays whenever {{spoiler|the Silence}} are nearby.
* And those birds from Amy's Choice. Those ''freaking birds''. Darn Dreamlord.
* ''[[
* On ''[[Lost]]'', a multitude of strange noises, including the sound of a ''New York taxi cab receipt printer'', invariably precede an attack by the Monster.
** How about after {{spoiler|Ben moves the Island}} and several characters begin experiencing "time flashes" which are accompanied by a blinding flash and a increasingly loud noise that sounds like chimes, followed by a whooshing sound and magnetic humming. Hear it [http://www.entertonement.com/clips/xlgqtprrfn--Time-travel-soundLost-Ringtones-Because-You-Left-Lost-Season-5-Ep-f-Because-You-Left- here]
*** When Jack and Kate {{spoiler|Find Charlie hanging from the trees.}} The horrid, low gong-like chiming is torrid.
**** Not to mention the whisperers.
* ''[[Tales
* In the ''[[The Sopranos]]'' episode "Funland," every dream sequence Tony has is marked by a sound like creaking wood boardwalks, played at various volumes. This specific example was especially frightening, since at times the audio cue wouldn't be played until half-way through the scene; when a seemingly normal situation between recurring characters suddenly devolved into surreal nightmares, and that [[Scare Chord|goddamn noise plays...]] The [[Nightmare Fuel|psychological twist]] is almost as bad as the sound itself.
* The ''real'' theme song to ''[[Unsolved Mysteries]]'', from 1988 to 1993, was the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2S6ZQn9lvk eeriest theme song] to air on television; ever. It was both [[Hell Is That Noise]] ''and'' [[Crowning Music of Awesome]], at the same time.
* The [[Stargate Verse]] has a sound for the replicators that's a simple metal tapping, for thousands of legs.
* This sometimes tends to be The Stig's choice of listening material on ''[[Top Gear]]'' when he drives a car around the track: Morse code, bagpipes, vuvuzelas.
* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'': In "Equinox," the extra-dimensional aliens have to open portals into our universe to attack. When a portal forms, the first thing you hear is a high-pitched, whining hiss. It's pretty creepy and even creepier for the characters who are also thinking "WHERE IS IT WHERE IS IT?" If they aren't fast enough, it's the last sound they'll hear.
* ''[[Babylon
* If you get the final question wrong on ''[[Who Wants to Be
* ''[[Heroes]]'', at least in Season One, managed to make the ticking of clocks very creepy and unnerving. Because that sound indicated someone was about to lose their brain.
* Invoked in one episode of ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' when one cop was watching the funeral of another cop and commented how anyone who killed cops should have to hear [[Amazing Freaking Grace]] for the rest of eternity.
Line 42:
* Shows up in just about every episode of ''[[Oz]]'' usually when something dramatic happens or just in general the music is really ominous sounding. Really contributes to the [[Nightmare Fuel]] nature of the show.
{{tropesubpagefooter}}
| |||