What even is a worm?
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Perhaps more than Zendaya or Timothee Chalamet, the sandworms are the true stars ofDune.
What makes a worm good?
Whatisa worm, even?
Biologically speaking, worms are a very broad group of distantly related animals.
They usually dont have legs (except when they do).
And despite the similarities, slugs arenotworms they are slugs.
Caterpillars are clearly not worms.
Given that many pop-culture worms are alien in nature, classifying them is even more subjective.
Ultimately, though, you know a worm when you see it and bless its comings and goings.
16.Annelids (Men in Black)
16.
I hate these guys so much.
The Annelids, a.k.a.
Worms, from the Men in Blackmovies are awful and do a disservice to worms everywhere.
The Shai-Hulud create the Spice.
The Annelids just drink coffee and upset me.
15.Giant leeches (Attack of the Giant Leeches)
15.
The titular stars of this 1959 creature feature also commit the cardinal sin of walking on two legs.
Theycanbe blamed for kidnapping people and slowly sucking them dry of blood in their swampy lair.
14.Grima Wormtongue (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)
14.
Grima, son of Galmod, is technically a man, but only technically.
Aragorn shouldnt have stopped Theoden from killing Grima in retribution.
Truly one of the worst worms.
13.Worms (How to Eat Fried Worms)
13.
The worms themselves are utterly unimpressive, leading to their low ranking here.
RIP to those worms, but the others on this list are different.
12.Ceti eels (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
12.
Is the Ceti eel that Khan puts in the captive Chekovs ear a worm?
Maybe thats why its on this list of movie worms despite, maybe, not being a worm.
11.Jeff (Men in Black II)
11.
Jeff loses points for destroying and partially eating a subway car.
This is the last thing the MTA needs right now.
10.Maggot (Corpse Bride)
10.
Maggot acts as a morbid Jiminy Cricket, ultimately looking out for Emilys best interests.
But theres something off-putting and slimy about him and not even in a wormy way.
He just makes me kind of uncomfortable.
9.Dionin, a.k.a.
the dAmpton Worm (The Lair of the White Worm)
9.
Hugh Grant gives a whole speech about how we shouldnt take the wordwormtoo literally.
(Its an adaptation of the Anglo-Saxonwyrm, meaning dragon or snake.)
WorshippingDunes worms makes your eyes turn blue.
Worshipping Dionin turns you into a venom-spitting serpent lady with a killer sense of fashion.
8.Carnictis sordicus(King Kong)
- are by far the most disgusting.
The worms surround him in the mud, extending their terrible pink protuberances and toothy mouths to grab him.
7.Sandworm (Beetlejuice)
7.
Theres a goofy, macabre quality toBeetlejuices giant black-and-white-striped sandworms.
They are basically the answer to the question What if Tim Burton madeDune?
That pitch could easily goverywrong, but it would certainly be interesting, as these sandworms demonstrate.
6.Graboids (Tremors)
6.
Graboids are the trashy redneck equivalent of the noble Shai-Hulud.
Theres something delightful about how Graboids lack any sense of pretension.
Theyre just gnarly, dirtbag worm critters, and they should be celebrated as such.
5.Worms (Squirm)
5.
Thanks in large part to legendary special-effects makeup artist Rick Bakers work, the worms are disgusting.
4.Sandworms (David LynchsDune)
4.
The sandworms in Lynchs 1984Duneare more monstrous and less mysterious than Villeneuves take on the Shai-Hulud.
When Usul calls a big one, you believe its big.
The problem is they arent quite as majestic as Villeneuves worms.
Awesome but not as clearly worthy of religious awe and reverence.
3.Earthworm (James and the Giant Peach)
3.
(Glowworm doesnt count because glowworms are beetle larvae, not proper worms.
Also, Glowworm is, like, barely a character compared with the rest of them.)
2.Exogorth (Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back)
2.
But much like theMillennium Falcon, were not going to let that come back to bite us.
1.Sandworms (Denis VilleneuvesDune)
1.
There was some …apprehensionwhen the design for the 2021Dunes sandworms was first revealed.
By making the worms mouths essentially a gaping void, Villeneuve eliminates their ability to bite.
Instead, the sandworms simply swallow.
What the Fremen call the Maker is something more than an animal.
It represents something greater, somethingbeyond while also being really, really cool to ride.
We are so lucky to be blessed by the Maker.
