StarWars.com editors Kristin Baver and Dan Brooks take a look at which of the galaxy’s many fierce creatures is the scariest. If you’re feeling squirmish, now’s the time to look away.
It’s the ice spiders, says Dan.
Star Wars has always had its share of scares and monsters. There’s the mynock saying hello to Leia in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, the people-chomping rancor in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, and even the amorphous Drengir plant-creatures from Star Wars: The High Republic books and comics. These sequences and creatures are creepy enough, sure. But then we met the ice spiders — a whole big bag of nope nope nope — in The Mandalorian.
Nope. It’s the Drengir, says Kristin.
The ice spiders are plenty creepy, I’ll give you that. But who can really blame a creature for going after an intruder who’s been eating its young straight from the egg? (Sorry, Grogu, but that’s just bad form.)
For me, on the galactic scale of scary nothing beats the Drengir. You wouldn’t think a hungry plant would be quite so bone-chilling, but with a murmuring chorus of one word — “meat” — they become something else entirely. Yet even their rustling hunger, the stuff of classic horror film scare tactics, doesn’t compete with the way they infest and infect, harvesting all those who cross their path be they civilian, Jedi, Hutt, or even fearsome rancor.
