Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Always-entertaining nerdblogger MightyGodKing wants Hollywood to stop sticking the Wilhelm Scream into their movies. (For a brief history of the Wilhelm Scream, this very-low-resolution video will ...

The ‘Wilhelm Scream’ is an iconic Hollywood soundbyte that, thanks to its use in countless films, TV shows and video games over the years, is surely one of the most familiar yells in human history.

Ron Evangelista is a writer with a burning passion for movies. He became enamored with films at a very young age when his father tirelessly watched them with him in a small apartment in Makati City, ...

Unless you’ve lived off the grid for the last 60 years, you’ve heard the “Wilhelm scream.” It’s a stock sound-bit originally used in film and television post-production. It started in a Western movie.

Ben Burtt calls it an in-joke that got out of hand. He managed to keep it on the lowdown for years. Today, though, it might affectionately be called the Once-Secret Sound Effect That Ate Hollywood.

From "A Star Is Born" to "Star Wars" to "Dial of Destiny," the Wilhelm scream keeps reminding us that movies are fun. When audiences hear the Wilhelm scream in “Dial of Destiny,” it’s sound designer ...