"In space," some marketing genius once said, "no one can hear you scream". Bring the Xenomorph and its associated ecosystem back home, however — as "Alien: Earth" so memorably has — and you hear ...

You might think you don’t know what the Wilhelm Scream is, but you do. It’s a very specific, brief, high-pitched scream of a man in agony, and it’s been used in hundreds and hundreds of films and TV ...