The sounds of one of Nope's scariest scenes were inspired by a TikTok meme

Of all the things to talk about with a new movie, chances are sound design won't be at the top of most people's list...but Jordan Peele isn't the one. most people. Not only does "Nope" thrill, scare and disturb in equal measure, but it also draws tension from its sound design - whether it's chunks of metal and other objects falling from the sky or the UFO himself.

In an interview with /Film's Jack Giroux, sound designer Johnnie Burn explained how a viral TikTok meme factored into one of the film's most unsettling moments.

"The barn sequence, when OJ first encounters the aliens, in the barn. So we tried that with the score, but one of my teammates then added watering sounds from the beginning from the movie. You see the sprinkler, and so we used that, and obviously it's envisioned that the sprinklers are on, you can't just see them [in that scene]. We kind of stepped that up and made it that the sound of the sprinklers becomes a tense rhythm. A year ago there was this thing on TikTok that my daughter was showing me, with the "save the turtles" thing, it was a meme or something and that sounded really weird, but my daughter was doing this and that

looked a bit like sprinklers. So, I recorded her doing that, then cut the S's, and it sounded really weird. It sounded like the alien kids were mimicking the environment they were in, sonically, to sound convincing like an alien together, to scare OJ."

Let it be known: The next time you go viral online, know that you might find yourself influencing the next big movie.