See also: this 60 Second Docs video profile of her and her work.
posted by neuracnu at 9:22 AM on April 9, 2022 [1 favorite]

Another a perfect job for which I completely share the requisite motivation and yet totally lack the necessities. Why it's enough to make me
posted by y2karl at 10:28 AM on April 9, 2022 [6 favorites]

I heard she recently signed up for Primal Whisper Therapy.
posted by Greg_Ace at 10:37 AM on April 9, 2022 [3 favorites]

I wonder if they have a famous Edvard Munch painting on the studio wall for inspiration.
posted by Greg_Ace at 10:38 AM on April 9, 2022 [1 favorite]

You have heard my scream in Free Guy, Paranormal Activity and Scream (2022).

That last one is basically having the title role.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 10:50 AM on April 9, 2022 [6 favorites]

Obligatory: No one, and I mean NO ONE, can top The Wilhelm Scream, supposedly emitted by Sheb Woolley.

May Heaven resound with his scream …
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 10:57 AM on April 9, 2022 [2 favorites]

I think there's an entire series of eponsterical waiting, soundguy99.
posted by blue shadows at 11:05 AM on April 9, 2022 [2 favorites]

Man, that job has to be great for your mental health. Kinda like how demolition guys are super happy.
posted by The Power Nap at 11:07 AM on April 9, 2022 [4 favorites]

I can’t hear you, Clem Fandango.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 11:36 AM on April 9, 2022 [5 favorites]

A new scream queen.
posted by doctornemo at 11:41 AM on April 9, 2022

My favourite scream artist is the inimitable Junko Hiroshige (of veteran Japanese noizu group Hijokaidan), though she's operating in a very different arena.
posted by remembrancer at 1:40 PM on April 9, 2022 [1 favorite]

re: famous screams, the buddy of the film director in 'American Movie' is also memorable.
posted by ovvl at 2:13 PM on April 9, 2022 [2 favorites]

I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned this on MeFi before, but my favorite Six Degrees of Separation moment was the time I gave screaming lessons to someone who went to school with Vincent Price’s daughter.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 3:06 PM on April 9, 2022 [4 favorites]

The story behind Australia's most iconic screen scream (weekly since '87).
posted by brushtailedphascogale at 5:40 PM on April 9, 2022 [1 favorite]

I heard she recently signed up for Primal Whisper Therapy.

Or...ASMR but it's all screaming.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 5:58 PM on April 9, 2022 [1 favorite]

Or...ASMR but it's all screaming.

But the screaming starts abruptly. About six minutes in.
posted by Artful Codger at 7:36 PM on April 9, 2022 [1 favorite]

For a high school theater production, I stood in the wings and let out a bloodcurdling scream associated with an offstage murder, while the tech crew cut the lights and plunged the audience into total darkness. Intermission followed immediately. I am a soft spoken person who was always told to be quiet as a child and I reveled in discovering that I could make really loud sounds when events warranted it. ~16 year old me was curious to see how people reacted to the sound and was a little pleased that some audience members found it really disturbing; today I, of course, understand how a scream might be triggering and traumatic. Anyway, the school principal told the director to instruct me to tone it down. If I was certain no one could hear me, I’d love to see if I can still do it.
posted by carmicha at 8:24 PM on April 9, 2022 [11 favorites]

About eight years ago I was on the phone with my sister in the bedroom of the house we used to live in. My sister had lived with us for a few months that summer while she was interning at the company I work for, and my partner had this thing where he tried to interact with my sister by writing "Hi [sister's name]" onto ever-more-bizarre objects, holding them up to me while I was on the phone so I could pass on the message. We still have a super dried-out old lemon with "Hi [sister's name]" written on it in sharpie from this era.

It's relevant to mention at this point that the house was a bungalow, so the bedroom was on the ground floor. The bedroom had a door out to the garden and so did the living room next door. So I'm on the phone with my sister and suddenly the silhouette of a person wielding an axe pops up at the exterior door of the bedroom. I let out the most perfectly-pitched, lengthy, undulating horror-movie scream that I've ever screamed in my life. Seriously, I'm so proud of that scream; I have C-PTSD and a bunch of self-esteem issues and had always kinda worried that if something really bad happened to me I might just freeze up and take it. Not so! Big scream.

Except it wasn't an axe-wielding murderer; it was my partner holding up a fake plastic axe we'd bought for a fancy dress event, with "Hi [sister's name]" written on it in ketchup. It took at least a minute after the scream for me to catch my breath and fill my sister in on what had just happened; she said that in the meantime she'd assumed I'd been murdered while we were on the phone and was running through how to possibly tell our mother about this, until fortunately I started speaking again.

To this day, my partner will occasionally spontaneously blurt out, "I'm sorry about the axe!", at which point I crack up because time has mellowed the experience from genuinely terrifying to utterly hilarious.
posted by terretu at 4:35 AM on April 10, 2022 [13 favorites]

If I was certain no one could hear me, I’d love to see if I can still do it.

Are you not in the right place to find out here?
posted by y2karl at 11:22 AM on April 10, 2022

This is great.

My last office was physically next to a studio that lots of drama companies would hire to rehearse in, and where other groups ran classes. The day I hated was Scream Day, which was a group that practiced these kinds of screams and shouts. Most people it seems aren't very good at vocalising very loud or convincingly, and ironically to make those unexpected screams, bellows, and rage-shouts, to be convincing, the actors have to practice them. I have some idea how much work it takes to get that Shower Scene In Psycho, or Braveheart 'but you cannot take our FREEDOM!' scale of volume.

You try getting your work done when a group next door is doing group shrieks, or rehearsing dialogue from a violent argument.
posted by Fiasco da Gama at 6:58 PM on April 11, 2022 [1 favorite]

Are you not in the right place to find out here?

I don’t often go places where I can be certain no one is within earshot—even the big state parks nearby—so my two choices are: 1) wait for next winter when all the snowbirds will be gone and there’s a pretty big buffer around our property or 2) drive my boat out into the middle of Lake Michigan and let loose. I do not want anyone to think I am in danger.
posted by carmicha at 7:19 PM on April 11, 2022

Apologies for my jocularity. In the real world the middle of Lake Michigan seems the best choice. Knowing how to drive a boat is your real advantage: owning one is a bonus in comparison.
posted by y2karl at 9:00 AM on April 12, 2022