Around the random murders, the film hones in on Berlin's melancholy, a landscape of puddles and prostitutes, a silent city – the hush broken by bells or shrieks, the tap-tap of a tool being sharpened, and haunted by the killer's eerie whistling of Grieg's "In the Hall of The Mountain King".
It's the exact moment in Peep Show when Toploader's Dancing in the Moonlight comes on at a work Christmas party and Sophie shrieks: "I love this song!" What makes it even worse is that the signs were so promising.
Shaama, four, shrieks as a customs officer wearing a balaclava tells her mother to sit down.
The four-point lead that sent Thatcher into a fury would bring shrieks of delight at Conservative headquarters today.
You couldn't miss it when you heard her, with her cut-glass vowels and shrieks of laughter.
Lindisfarne, the Holy Island, shrieks with birds; the moors and mountains howl with wind and rain.
His themes were just as diverse, with work that commented on class, sexuality, religion and post-punk politics, often with a wry sense of humour.Loud shrieks greet visitors entering the show.
When the priest proposes an annulment, she shrieks "Father, that's impossible we have children!" So Mrozek lays bare civilian gullibility, the church's impotence and the malleability of Poland's men.
It is lunch break.Suddenly, the sounds of the whistles are interrupted by the shrieks of young women.
If Messrs Clinton and Blair believe their own rhetoric about improving educational opportunities for all, they should ignore the shrieks of the teaching unions and at least give vouchers a try.
But we also know that we have to begin networking more effectively with a lot of other people and institutions".On that first of more than half a dozen Asian trips, Jeffrey Bader, the White House's director for East Asia until leaving last year, was struck by the shrieks of approval Mrs Clinton elicited along her motorcade route or in hotel lobbies.
