here's one to think on .
what is your favorite monster sound , roar , scream etc. i mean the one that gets ya no matter how many times you've watched .
Godzilla's scream ? the evil hiss of the Queen Alien ?
for me it's in the film The Thing ( Carpenter's remake ) where Bennings is in the process of changing and they run up on him . the other-worldly roar that eminates from him creeps me out no matter how often i see that scene .
i also love the deep sort of purring back of the throat sound the Rhedosaurus gives when first seen i Beast From 20,000 Fathoms .
hb

I would go with Godzilla, Rodan and Ghidrah, followed by the Id Monster's bellow from Forbidden Planet...

i figure Godzilla will be at the top of alot of folks list . he is , after all, the King of the monsters .
yeah the Id monster sound IS awesome .
hb

Not really a monster scream, but I'll bet you will hear it in many monster movies...The Wilhelm Scream (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream).

A good "monster" sound is the T-Rex from Jurassic Park, as well as some of the other animals in that movie.

Godzilla's scream. I also like Joss Whedon's "Grrr, arg" at the end of the Buffy/Angel credits.

Don't know if it's my all-time fave, but the Sutherland Shriek from Kaufman's Bodysnatchers remake ranks pretty high.

Oooh, good call, Carson! That shriek from Sutherlands character still gives me chills, as well.

I also like the scream from John Carpenter's The Thing, both when the Bennings character screams, as well as the one at the end down in the basement when MacReady confronts the amalgam critter and says "Yeah, eff you too!" and throws the stick of dynamite.

The T-Rex from the Jurassic Park movies definitely rates up there pretty high, too. Most of the sounds from the other critters doesn't really get me so much, tho.

In Peter Jackson's King Kong, the sound of the critters when the crew is caught down in that ravine. Or rather, the really soft, skittering sounds, as well as the pseudo-hiss of the "slug" thing that eats that one guy's (the cook?) head always gets me.

The hissing and screaming sounds from the Alien movies.

Godzilla's roar still rates up there pretty high with me, too.

The moan of the Zombies in most of the Romero Dead movies haunts my nightmares.

I don't know if the ominous basso profundo trumpeting of Spielberg's War Machines qualifies as a "monster sound," but it certainly gave me chills.

3. Gojira's basso roar from '54. Much deeper and slower than Godzilla's...more scary.

2. Two from Gabe Dell's "Famous Monsters Speak" (cornball I know)...the Monster's insane laugh just before he gleefully dismembers an entire family... then where he runs a horse carriage off the road, rips the door off and then tears the guy inside to pieces...never noticed it on the album but on the new CD you can just hear, underneath the flesh rending, the Monster whisper "Kill."

and my #1...

"MERRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNN!"

Cool thread idea, Beck!

Boris Karloff as Frankenstein
Godzilla
Howling Wolfman
Bela Lugosi's Accent

ahh , ya'll are ringin' some bells for me here . i hadn't thought of some of these in a while . esp . the Donald Sutherland scream and the exorsist both bone chilling and so affectively placed for max punch .
hb

hey Frank , where can one get a copy of that CD ? i didn't know it had even been released .
hb

I don't know if the ominous basso profundo trumpeting of Spielberg's War Machines qualifies as a "monster sound," but it certainly gave me chills.
'Far as I'm concerned it works as a monster sound! That's another one that gives the chills, too.

Another that isn't exactly a monster sound per se is the scene in American Werewolf in London when Griffin Dunne's character changes for the first time, the sound of the bones popping, the skin stretching, claws breaking the skin and the sound of intense pain that he's obviously feeling.

3. Gojira's basso roar from '54. Much deeper and slower than Godzilla's...more scary.

Yeah, the bellow from the original Gojira/Godzilla is the best.

While not a monster scream, the skeleton beam from George Pal's War Of The Worlds was always one of my favorite sounds.

Pals War of the Worlds, both the dumdumdum beam sound and the screaming sound of the wingtip beams.

The Aliens sounds. The low crunch of its jaws and the shreiking yell.

The batmobile sound. 1966. Also used in Robinson Crusoe on Mars as the ships thruster, and as the polaris missile sound in the movie Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

A TIE fighters scream.

The T-Rex scream from Jurassic Park has been mentioned a couple of times already, but it was the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread. It is so iconic that, to me, a T-Rex portrayed as making a different sound just seems wrong.

Qapla'

SSB

I still hear this one when I walk in the woods...especially while hunting.

That sound the Predator makes from the first one...kind of like a breathing sound

I know this movie has is share of detractors, but I doff my hat to the those who recorded and mixed the incredibly creepy background wailing heard in The Blair Witch Project. In terms of generating a feeling of dread and terror the sound guys were called upon to do some pretty heavy lifting in that low budget film, and their work stands as a noteworthy example of how important a part audio FX can play in a horror film (or any type of film, for that matter).

Ymirs yell.
Beasts' low rumble
Godzilla
T-Rex from J. Park

The cacophony of bird skitters, calls, flutters and wing beats from The Birds.

Just about ALL the sounds in The Haunting.
This is a little off track. One of my favorite uses of ambient sound is the woods sounds in Deliverance

hey Frank , where can one get a copy of that CD ? i didn't know it had even been released . hb

I say "new" tho it's been out for some years now. Not sure it was ever on Amazon but it does show up on Eeeeeeebay fairly frequently.

Someone has it for download, apparently:

http://universalhorrorsounds.blogspot.com/2007/08/famous-monsters-speak-1963.html

thanks Frank i'll check that out .
hb

Definitely all of Gojira's/Godzilla's unique noises followed by Boris's Frankenstein monster noises.

I like the Big G's sounds because they are SOOOO distinctive. You hear any of them.....and you know who it is.

Boris's noises are terrifying in his altercations with Fritz, Victor, and Dr. Waldman.

I also like Joss Whedon's "Grrr, arg" at the end of the Buffy/Angel credits.

I was thinking of that. (Firefly was also produced by Mutant Enemy, so the goofy zombie was there, too.)

Didn't he sing the "Grr...arrg" at the end of "Once More, With Feeling"?

godzilla's 54 roar and its 89 variation (vs biolantte) are eaily my favorites, but everything you guys have mentioned is also way up there.
if the martians war machines are fair game, then let me also add the tardis sound effect from doctor who.

btw be VERY careful if signing up to megadownload to get that "famous monsters speak" file. see, before you get to the sign up screen, you get a sign up screen for another organization, which apparently purchases ad space from them. i was almost finished before i realized that instead of signing up for megadownload, i was actually signing up for "iran proud". thats iran as in the muslim country we are currently rattling our sabres with. im glad i caught that before i hit submit, because i really dont relish the idea of explaining myself to the men in black from the dept. of homeland security.

The Time Machine had some cool sounds in it. The time machine itself, the warning siren at the beginning of World War III, The Morlock's dinner siren, and the sound of the Morlock's machines below ground.

The sound from "Them!"

It's distinct but it's odd how many times I've heard it in the real world coming from a varierty of sources. And when you do hear it you get this strange creepy sensation. LOL!

James (at Work) :)

James , very cool sound . when you put in the DVD the menu screen has that in the background .
Razor , thanks for the alert , i''l be sure and be careful .
looks like the Big G is on a lot of our lists .
the Predator sound is definately cool . that clicking /breathing noise . i love the whole soundtrack for that movie . i like to play that one when i'm at the work bench .
hb

I also like Joss Whedon's "Grrr, arg" at the end of the Buffy/Angel credits.Ever since we watched Firefly, my wife does that at the end of every show. She sounds uncannily like the real thing, too.

Qapla'

SSB

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The eerie amplified electronic chirping of the giant locusts in Bert I. Gordon's low-budget [I]Beginning of the End still creeps me out a little. Sounds kind of like crickets, but when the bugs are the size of buses . . .

The sound from "Them!"

It's distinct but it's odd how many times I've heard it in the real world coming from a varierty of sources. And when you do hear it you get this strange creepy sensation. LOL!

James (at Work) :)

Good one! I forgot about that erie sound the ants make. You know they're coming the first time you hear it.

They always sounded to me like several large industrial motors, all with loose squeaky belts.

They always sounded to me like several large industrial motors, all with loose squeaky belts.THAT'S what that sound reminds me of! If you hear it coming from under your hood, you've got a loose fan belt!

(Actually "serpentine belt" -- I know modern cars don't have fan belts anymore.)

I have a couple of favorites:

The "scream" from the Shadow ships in Babylon 5. They are organic ships so they might qualify as a monster.

The scream from the Balrog, the monster from the underworld in Lord of the Rings.

The weird laugh of the Mushroom People.

The sound the Majin makes when stomping around.

The shrieking of the Asphyx (half scary, half annoying).

"Dracula vs. Frankenstein" - the howls the monster makes when Dracula tears his arms and head off (very freaky when you're 5)

The silence during some scenes in the '31 Dracula...Kronos Quartet is good but it detracts from those few scenes.

Renfield down in the hold.

Leonard Nimoy singing "If I Had A Hammer" (sorry, just listened to it).

Leonard Nimoy singing "If I Had A Hammer" (sorry, just listened to it).

Leonard Nimoy singing "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" :freak:

Gamera. Would still like to know what the heck they used for that sound.

Gamera. Would still like to know what the heck they used for that sound.
im pretty sure thats an elephant (with some sound doctoring).

Godzilla
T-Rex from J-Park
The sound of the Orc Arm marching on Helm's deep. All those grunts and groans, and the leaders lion like roar.
Balrog from LoTR

HelpMe!HelpMe! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qP81havHnE) (click the link for the actual scene)


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Favorite monster sound?

Godzilla.

I know it's not original, but it is my favorite.