10 Star Wars Moments That Will Haunt You Forever
6. Uncle Owen & Aunt Beru's Skeletons - Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
Sticking with those original trilogy scenes that were scorched into many an innocent child's brains (and adult's for that matter), 1977's Star Wars contained one of the darkest deaths you'll ever find in a U-rated movie.
After learning the apparent "truth" about his father and being offered the chance to learn the ways of the Force with Obi-Wan Kenobi (but initially turning it down), the group stumble on a blasted sandcrawler. Luke Skywalker then realises that the stormtroopers who did this, the ones looking for the droids accompanying them, would likely be heading to his home next.
He was right, too.
By the time he made it back to the Lars homestead, though, it was too late. The stormtroopers had already burned it and his family to a crisp. But just to really hammer home how barbaric these Imperial soldiers could be, George Lucas shockingly threw out the charred, skeletal remains of the farmboy's Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen for Luke to discover.
It's still an absolutely grim and shocking visual to watch back almost fifty years later, and it will forever remain one of the most unexpectedly haunting images in Star Wars history.