Back in May 1978, Lon Bender and Gordon Ecker recorded this sound by having a male voice actor performing a gut-wrenching scream. It was originally a Soundelux vocal effect that made its debut in The Ninth Configuration on February 29, 1980. On August 13, 1990, The Hollywood Edge added this screaming sound effect to The Premiere Edition Volume 1 library. In 2014, Sound Ideas took over to acquire it after the bankruptcy of The Hollywood Edge. This sound effect is a famous scream sound effect (which can rival the Wilhelm Scream in terms of popularity) and it is commonly known as the "Howie Scream" (which is named after Howie Long when the scream sound effect was used in his death scene in the film, Broken Arrow).