Came across this looking up the word leitmotif on Wikipedia. Leitmotifs are musical themes associated with a particular character, place or idea. They're all over classical music, but a modern example everyone knows would be Darth Vader's "Imperial March."
Or the familiar "ch-ch-ch ha-ha-ha" of Jason in Friday the 13th. Now, at last, know its origin...
In the Friday the 13th film series, Harry Manfredini implemented a vocal effect to indicate the presence of the killer. While watching a rough cut of the original Friday the 13th, and while contemplating a leitmotif for the picture, the line "Kill her, mommy", entranced Manfredini. He distilled the line down to "kill mom", and then truncated it even further into "ki" and "ma". He then spoke each syllable a single time into an Echoplex, creating the signature "ki-ki-ki ma-ma-ma" motif that went on to be used in each subsequent sequel. Often this is not realised to be ki-ki-ki ma-ma-ma, and often people falsely believe it to be ch-ch-ch ha-ha-ha, and reportedly Manfredini responds by saying "Everybody thinks it's cha, cha, cha. I'm like, 'Cha, cha, cha? What are you talking about?"
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