The Star Wars franchise is no stranger when it comes to depicting the darkest, most spine-chilling stories through various media. So, here are our top 7 picks for the most spine-chilling Star Wars stories that sound like horror movies!
The Brain Invaders
Exotic creatures and monsters are no new things within the Star Wars Universe, but the Brain Invaders or Brain Worms are one of the creepiest parasites to exist in the franchise.
The worms would slither right through your nose to take control of your body, and what makes things worse is that even when the host is dead, the worm can still operate your corpse beyond the grave.
Exegol
The Unknown Region was occupied by the Sith Eternal, and where the remains of Darth Sidious reside in order to keep his plan in motion in time for The Rise of Skywalker.
Exegol featured many horrifying images for the Star Wars franchise, which included the resurrected Emperor Palpatine with decayed fingertips and black lips, with his Sith army ready to spread their evil across the Galaxy.
The Undead Nightsisters
The Nightsisters are basically the undead but through the magic of the force that brought them back to life.
Old Daka recited the Chat of Resurrection, in which the corpses of their Nightsister kin dug out of their graves to build their own army against the droids.
Though they were mostly used to buy themselves some time, the look of these things could lead to haunting nightmares.
The Return of Darth Maul
Perhaps one of the most gut-wrenching and petrifying stories in Star Wars is the one that came about in The Clone Wars.
When the monster Savage Opress was looking for his brother, he found Maul in a terrorized state of having sharper horns, a monstrous gaze, and his body attached to that of mechanical spider legs that transformed him into 'Spidermaul'.
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Death Troopers
If you think the Stormtroopers are scary enough, wait 'til you see the Death Troopers.
Based on the 2009 novel by Joe Schreiber, Death Troopers took place a year after the events of A New Hope where the Imperial Star Destroyer turned into zombies.
The contamination of the Blackwing Virus is what spread out throughout the galaxy, through bites that would transform the Stormtroopers, officers, and rogues into the undead.
Anakin Skywalker Turns To the Dark Side
Anakin Skywalker was always prophesized to destroy the Sith. However, instead of doing so, he ended up joining them in an attempt to save his wife, Padme Amidala.
Aside from being one of the great tragedies the franchise faced, Anakin's turn to the dark side led him to rise as Darth Vader in the future, where he murdered the younglings and his own friends.
He's a long-standing reminder behind the cautionary tale of what succumbing to the darkness would look like.
Tales From Jabba's Palace
In the short story, A Barve Like That: The Tale of Boba Fett from J.D. Montgomery's Tales From Jabba's Palace, the events picked up right after Return of the Jedi in which more terrifying details were written about Sarlacc's victims.
Apart from the hidden Sarlacc in the Great Pit of Carkoon, Jabba's Palace is much creepier than Star Wars fans have been led to believe.
This includes the very carpet trap set inside of the Palace where only horrific screams from the victims can be heard without further explanation as to what lies underneath his place.