Scream Sound Effect

📝 Description

The scream is horror's oldest special effect and comedy's most reliable overreaction — a full-throated human shriek that works in any genre depending entirely on what precedes it. After a shadow: terror. After a spider: comedy. After a WiFi outage: documentary. Use it for jump scares, prank payoffs, and reaction edits where words would undersell the moment. Layered and pitch-shifted, it builds crowd panic; solo, it is one person's very bad afternoon. Every editor needs a good scream on file. This is that scream.

📊 Sound Details

Duration

0:02

Format

MP3

File Size

25 KB

Added

July 11, 2026

⚖️ License & Source

This sound is released under the CC0 license (public domain) — free to use in personal and commercial projects, no attribution required.

Original recording by mariateresa_garcia via Freesound. View original source →