An image of Hal the Cockroach.
These are Skywalker Sound sound effects. They were created by Ben Burtt, and they were used extensively in WALL-E (2008) for Wall-E's pet cockroach named Hal. The sounds were made by speeding up recordings of a raccoon vocalizing.
Used In
TV Shows
- DreamWorks Dragons
- Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous
- Love, Death & Robots
- Star Wars: Rebels
- Star Wars: Visions
Movies
- How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
- How to Train Your Dragon (2025)
- How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
- How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)
- Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
- Land of the Lost (2009) (Only the trilling sounds are used a few times for the Compsognathuses when they run past Rick, Will and Holly before an ice cream truck falls out of the sky.)
- Jurassic World (2015)
- Jurassic World Dominion (2022)
- Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
- Jurassic World Rebirth (2025)
- WALL-E (2008) (Debut; used as Hal's vocal noises.)
Image Gallery
Audio Samples
(The trilling sounds as heard in Land of the Lost.)