This is a Skywalker Sound sound effect.
Used In
TV Shows
- Hawkeye (Heard once in "So This Is Christmas?".)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars (CGI Animated Series)
Movies
- Baby's Day Out (1994) (Debut)
- Cast Away (2000)
- Clerks II (2006)
- Daredevil (2003)
- Howard the Duck (1986) (Possibly debut?)
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
- The Iron Giant (1999)
- James and the Giant Peach (1996)
- McFarland, USA (2015)
- Monkeybone (2001)
- My Family (1995)
- The Polar Express (2004) (A higher-pitched and slightly edited variant is heard once alongside SKYWALKER, METAL - MEDIUM-PITCHED GROANS, VARIOUS when the locomotive starts slowing down after the Hero Boy pulls the emergency brake.)
- Radioland Murders (1994)
- Recess: School's Out (2001) (high pitched)
- Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
- Super 8 (2011)
- Thomas & Friends: Day of the Diesels (2011)
- Toy Story (1995)
- Tremors 2: Aftershocks (1996) (A small portion of this sound is used twice in a higher pitch for the squeaking of the pen's gate at Earl's ostrich ranch.)
- Whip It (2009)
Video Games
- The Polar Express (2004) (Video Game) (The higher-pitched and slightly edited variant is heard once during a cutscene.)
Shorts
YouTube Videos
- Toy Story YTPs (Heard once in "You Are a Sad, Strange Little Man".)
Image Gallery
The Polar Express (2004) SKYWALKER, CAR - BRAKES SQUEAL, LONG (Higher pitched, slightly edited; slightly muffled due to the groaning)
Thomas & Friends: Day of the Diesels (2011) SKYWALKER, CAR - BRAKES SQUEAL, LONG (Small portion only; slightly lower volume) (needs clarification)
Tremors 2: Aftershocks (1996) SKYWALKER, CAR - BRAKES SQUEAL, LONG (small portion only, higher pitched, used incorrectly)
Tremors 2: Aftershocks (1996) SKYWALKER, CAR - BRAKES SQUEAL, LONG (small portion only, higher pitched, used incorrectly)
Audio Samples
(The sound as heard in The Polar Express, along with a slowed down version to reveal the original.)











