Image Example for the Sound.
These are sound effects that were made by Skywalker Sound. They were created by Ben Burtt and/or Randy Thom and debuted in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
Used In
TV Shows
- Love, Death & Robots
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Heard in "Weapons Factory".)
Movies
- 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
- 102 Dalmatians (2000)
- A River Runs Through It (1992) (Includes an elongated version.)
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
- Bad Boys II (2003) (Used for a car scraping on its side.)
- Broken Arrow (1996)
- The Commuter (2018)
- Death Train (2003) (Unless confused with near identical sounds.)
- Enemy of the State (1998)
- Enola Holmes (2020)
- F1 (2025)
- The Fast and the Furious (2001)
- Godzilla (2014)
- Green Lantern: First Flight (2009)
- Hellboy (2004)
- Hoodwinked! (2005) (Heard in various pitches, including the elongated version from "A River Runs Through It".)
- IF (2024)
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
- The Island (2005)
- The Lone Ranger (2013) (Heard once in the background when John tells Butch to let Rebecca go and he makes her nearly fall off the side the car they are on top during the final chase scene.)
- The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
- Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012)
- Monsters, Inc. (2001)
- Night at the Museum (2006)
- Pitch Black (2000)
- The Polar Express (2004) (Heard once in a very low volume on the left channel as the train starts to slow down before it is able to hit the herd of Caribou. However, it's hard to hear due to the other sound effects and Smokey' yelling.)
- Rango (2011) (Either an edited variant of this sound or a very similar sound is heard once when one of the buttons on Rango's shirt grinds against a semi's wheel after he gets caught under the mud flap.)
- Ready Player One (2018)
- Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022)
- Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
- Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
- Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) (debut)
- Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! (2018)
- Toy Story 2 (1999) (Heard during the opening scene when the wall of spikes falls onto the floor of the tunnel that Buzz runs through.)
- Transformers (2007)
- Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)
- Unstoppable (2010) (Needs clarification.)
- X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
- Zootopia (2016)
Shorts
- Star Wars: Galaxy of Sounds (Heard once at the end of "Beeps".)
Video Games
- Lego Star Wars: The Video Game
- Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
- Star Wars Battlefront II (2017 Video Game)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2002) (Video Game)
Trailers
- Battlefield 1 (Trailers)
Image Gallery
Audio Samples