The clip is catalogued as a vampiric scream from the Priest movie sounds, listed in its long version as Beast Vile Long. Priest is a post-apocalyptic action horror film centred on a war between humans and vampires, which explains the inhuman, feral quality of the cry. Long monster screams like this circulated through sound effect libraries and soundboards for horror editing, then found a second life in meme jumpscares and Halloween videos where a drawn-out shriek is funnier and scarier than a short one.