Howie Scream

The Howie scream (also known as the Howie Long scream or Screams 3; Man, Gut-wrenching Scream And Fall Into Distance) is a frequently-used film and television stock sound effect for a scream. Believed to have originated in 1980 as a sound effect in the movie The Ninth Configuration, the sound effect is featured as Screams 3; Man, Gut-wrenching Scream And Fall Into Distance in a Hollywood Edge] sound library called The Premiere Edition. Often compared to the [[wikipedia:Wilhelm scream|Wilhelm scream, its prominence in a number of movies has given it a few nicknames such as Howie Long Scream, in reference to Howie Long's death scene in the movie Broken Arrow, and the TIE Fighter scream, for its similarity to the sound the passing fighters make in the 1977 film Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The Howie scream has also been referred to by its onomatopoeia, Youraagh.

It has also been used in video games such as Half-Life 2 as a faster version called the "Fast Zombie Yell", Starcraft as the response noise for the Terran Academy, and Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare as a sound effect for when the player completes a challenge.

Appearances

 * he Ninth Configuration (1980): Possibly the first use of the Howie scream.
 * Beethoven's 2nd (1993): Ashley utters this when Beethoven yanks the support beam and he falls out of his house.
 * Natural Born Killers (1994): Used in the background during the prison riot when Warden McClusky (Tommy Lee Jones) is watching, in horror, the chaos on the security monitors.
 * Aaahh!!! Real Monsters (1994–1997)
 * Star Wars: Dark Forces (1995): Used when Kyle Katarn (The player character) falls a (potentially) fatal distance.
 * Firestorm (1995): Used when man is drinking beer.
 * Casebook of Sherlock Holmes: The Last Vampyre (1993): Used when man is set on fire in burning castle.
 * Serial Mom (1994 film) (1994): Used when a man discovers another man dead in the bathroom.
 * Broken Arrow (1996): Uttered by actor Howie Long, after whom the scream is named.
 * Crash Bandicoot (1996): Used as death screams for various scientists.
 * Starcraft (1998): When the Terran structure Terran Academy is selected, provided that the building sounds are turned on in the options menu.
 * Walking with Dinosaurs (1999): Pitch and tempo lowered for use as Postosuchus roar.
 * The Medallion (2003)
 * Half-Life 2 (2004): It is pitched 20% faster for the yell of the fast zombie.
 * Harold &amp; Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008): It happens after KKK member urinates on Harolds and Kumars heads.
 * In the Pokémon episode "Ditto's Mysterious Mansion" the character Jessie gets mad and yells with the Howie Scream at Ditto.
 * The Rescuers Down Under (Percival C. McLeach falls off a waterfall to his death)
 * Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light (Anubis' Jackal's body disintegrates into nothing and is destroyed)
 * Mulan (Shan Yu shot off roof by fireworks and is blown up when he crashes into a munitions cache.)
 * The Black Cauldron: Horned King gets sucked into the Black Cauldron by his boss Arawn
 * Tarzan (Clayton falls to his death and gets choked to death by vines)
 * Up (Charles F. Muntz jumps off Carl's floating house, his leg was caught by a bunch of balloons and fell down to Earth and dies.)
 * Lights Out Used as the "death scream" for Scary Fairies when Doofenshmirtz's Blow-itself-up-inator blowing up, (obviously) and turning them into ashes and is blown away by the wind.
 * Episode 121 Used as the "death scream" for Gozaburo Kaiba (XANA-possessed-William, upon seeing Gozaburo Kaiba's death at the hands of his creator, Franz Hopper, yells in frustration at the end of the episode)
 * Episode 78 (One of the Rare Hunters is electrocuted by Franz Hopper-possessed-Tea)
 * Desperate Situation (XANA-possessed Tea electrocutes Shadi.)
 * King Piccolo's Wish (King Piccolo kills Shenron with a Mouth Energy Wave)
 * Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (This effectively 'kills' Forte and he crashes to the ground, destroyed)
 * The Return of Jafar (Jafar meets his end by violently imploding into a cloud of dust after Iago pushed his lamp in lava)
 * WALL-E Used as the "death scream" for GO-4 and even AUTO.
 * In a Tom & Jerry episode, when Tom is pursuing Jerry, Tom steals the milk from Jerry and drinks the potion. Tom grows to an enormous size and tries to force his enemy to watch. Jerry gets distracted by spotting thebig hammer and smashes the cat's foot, and Tom looses the Howie scream, just before an explosion erupts from Tom, resulting him shrinking to a smaller size than Jerry.
 * Image Problem (The clone of Yumi falls to her death after being pulled by Courage)
 * Contact (XANA-possessed-nurse accidentally electrocutes herself after Courage bites her hand)
 * Common Interest (Courage shocks XANA-possessed-Peter Duncan)
 * Attack of the Zombies - When Courage transforms into a [[wikipedia:Werewolf|werewolf], the Howie Scream is heard.
 * Double Trouble (Courage vaporizes a polymorphic clone of Jeremie)
 * Fight to the Finish (XANA is wiped out completely)
 * Ultimatum (Courage lures XANA-possessed The Principal to fall off a bridge)
 * Wrong Exposure (Piccolo throws XANA-possessed-Mr. Delmas out of the factory)
 * The Little Engine That Could The Cave's Voice does this before starting to drop icicles and collapsing in an avalanche as the train narrowly escapes.
 * Defying Olympus (Phaeton is shot himself, and falls over the cliff)