Weird that this article gives no credit to Brad Fiedel's work on The Terminator. That's the first time I can recall hearing BRAAAM, over 10 years before any of the other movies he talks about used it.

As far as the origin of the sound itself, seems pretty obvious that people are just oversampling a Klaxon.

> seems pretty obvious that people are just oversampling a Klaxon.

Klaxons were designed to make a very specific impression, so even if they aren't oversampling a Klaxon, I am not surprised if they are subconsciously arriving at the same result. But I'm pretty sure you are on to something -- I recall a monster sound being specifically based on a klaxon. I believe it was either the War of the Worlds tripod, or the Cloverfield monster.

Half Life 2 (2004) uses it some for various alien ships. (new War of the Worlds: 2005, Cloverfield: 2008)

That may be what I'm remembering it from. I've played HL2 with the commentary on, and it would be pretty easy to get HL2 confused with new War of the Worlds.

>I've played HL2 with the commentary on

http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Developer_commentary

Never knew about this until reading your comment.

Anyone tallied how much of John Wick is talking vs action? 76 kills in 101 minutes.