This is the one monster in Star Wars that’s completely stationary, which makes it all the more unique. The Sarlacc is found in a Tatooine sand well known as the Great Pit of Carkoon, with a teeth-lined ridge, tentacles to grab prey, an extending beak used to eat its victims — and then slowly digest them over a thousand years, according to Jabba the Hutt. The Sarlacc is maybe the most original of all Star Wars monsters; it’s much more of a thing than it is a traditional movie monster, and is the most unsettling. It combines many grotesque elements from classic creatures — the tentacles, the teeth — but the fact that Jabba takes his enemies to the Sarlacc as a form of execution adds much to its fear factor. (And its pig-like squeals are pretty disturbing, too.).
