Those who stretch their lungs.

[Flangepart]

Whats with the screaming?
I was listening to a CD I made of the Toho film music. I had some trailer audio included, and one was from 'IT Terror from beyond space'
And I realised, 'hey, there are some guys screaming in there.'
Sooooo... Two questions:

What would you say is the percentage of male vs. female screaming incidents in your average film.
And, what guy had the best lung stretcher of a scream that you can remember. I'll allow death scream, as there are a lot of them.

P.S. What was the most amusing scream? Unintentional and contextually mucked up types allowed.

[akiratubo]

Eastern movies typically have much more male screaming.  In Western movies, it's usually females screaming while the man just assumes a horrified expression.  If a man does scream in a Western movie, it's usually to show that he's a coward a effeminate.

A notable exception is the movie Poltergeist.  The Dad gets one of the greatest, and most justified, movie screams ever.

[Flick James]

One of the best all-out screams I can think of was in the Coen Brothers movie Barton Fink. John Turturro (sic?) let's out a doozy when he wakes up to find a dead woman next to him.

The scream/yell from the movie producer in The Godfather when he wakes up next to the severed horse head.

[claws]

Most amusing male scream: the guy in the small plane in Kingdom of the Spiders. Kills me every time.

[RCMerchant]

In the film ALUCARDA someone seems to be screaming every other minute. I can't post the clip here (NSFW) but I love Alucarda's whirling dervish screaming rant!  ARGHHHHH!!!!!!!! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i15pVReezO4

[Silverlady]

In the movie The Lost World:Jurassic Park, there is a scene where the T Rex is running amuck in San Diego knocking over cars, buses and what have you.  One not so lucky guy making a B Line for a phonebooth (?) doesn't quite make it. The T Rex grabs him, lifts him in the air, and the guy lets out this really pathetically lame scream. I'd almost swear just as the T Rex chomps down on the guy you can hear a glub, glub kind of sound.

[Raffine]

The Famous Wilhelm Scream!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbYsoEasio

[RCMerchant]

SCREAM!!!!
If you don't-a crawling rack of ribs  will bite you in the ass!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTS_wxFzKok

[venomx]

Didn't alot of men scream in the movie The Green Slime (1968)? Even more then the women...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g79_ljVC5Wk

[RCMerchant]

The GREEN SLIME!  I love that movie. 

Here we go.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs0ehPgyD3U

[Raffine]

KING KONG (1933) has lots of great man screams. My favorite is the sailor who gets plucked from the tree by the man-eating brontosaurus.

"OOOOOO! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! WAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAA!" (Dramatic music chord)