Children's Laughter (The Diddy Laugh)
Dear sound editors of Deliver Us From Evil... and dear sound designers of all movies:
Please stop using that very recognizable stock sound of children's laughter that I've heard in countless other movies and even in Microsoft Software Tour presentations! That sound clip is around for at least 20 years now. So much in fact, that has its own nickname, "The Diddy Laugh". Every time I hear it it pulls me out of the movie. How hard can it be to record some new children's laughter in a multi million dollar production? Don't be so lazy and cheap!
There is a whole example blog dedicated to that sound clip:
http://diddylaugh.blogspot.de/
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