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While I'm mainly a strangulation fan, I could always enjoy a nice post-mortem snap to abuse a strangled corpse. That being said, neck breaks in erotic-horror have always been severely lacking in intensity and realism.

However, I have recently discovered a master snapper that will now show you producers how it is done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJQfT9C5Adc

At least we now know how the neck snap should sound. I love how the final girl squeeks.

Those are interesting, but are just not the same as a bone breaking. The sound is dissolved gasses rapidly expanding and while they sound good, they are muted compared to an actual bone snapping.

I have many production aiff's of bones breaking. And another one I have I actually made years ago, when I stomped on a animal femur I found while visiting my uncles farm. I am pretty sure it was a deer.

Needless to say, the snap of the bone gives a nice "crack" with some splintering that I cannot get from bone adjustment sounds.

But, it was an interesting and slightly cringeworthy video. :-)

I will admit though, in many videos I have watched over the years--especially mainstream movies, the choices made for certain sound effects leave me wondering, "what were they thinking?"

Thanks,
JohnM

he just wanted to feel up pretty girls...not bad in itself

^^^ ...I kind of got this impression as well. (Lol!) ...Still an interesting clip though.

JohnM wrote: I will admit though, in many videos I have watched over the years--especially mainstream movies, the choices made for certain sound effects leave me wondering, "what were they thinking?"

Thanks,
JohnM

I fully agree with you John!

I definitely prefer the bone breaking sounds personally, and love to layer and pan them to the right areas and camera angles so they match up. I like realistic sounds, but love to amplify them. I have also made a bunch of sound f/x myself and will release a producer's pack early 2016 that will have all kinds of great sounds and Foley.

CB