The clip comes from Zelyony Slonik, known in English as The Green Elephant, a 1999 Russian underground film directed by Svetlana Baskova and starring Vladimir Epifantsev as one of two officers confined in a guardhouse cell. The low-budget film later gained a huge cult following online in Russia, where its extreme scenes and shouted lines were cut into short clips and remixes. Epifantsev's prolonged scream became one of its most shared sounds, reused far beyond the film as a shorthand for unhinged anger and breakdowns.