What is your most Most Horrifying Soap Opera Storyline/Scene?

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Edited August 20, 201213 yr by Scotty Baldwin

Nadine's death infuriated me and it still does, 17 years later.

You can see a chopped up version of this, with loud music, at about 5 minutes in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKblyVvuhbc

A scene that's always stuck with me is the infamous Christmas 2001 scenes from EastEnders during Little Mo's domestic abuse storyline where Trevor forces her to eat food off the floor like an animal.

This was a great storyline though from the last golden age of the show.

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Hollyoaks' fire had some horrific scenes, including a character viewers thought was safe dying from smoke inhalation, and learning that another character had died when his cell phone led to a body bag.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8MMeqjuLR0

Dark Shadows. Rev. Trask has been gaslighting his wife Judith to get her money. Judith returns from the sanitarium and...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXo7aAUlSlI

Anything on Y&R in the last 3 years.

This scene is sort of campy but what leads up to it is very good - a medium arrives at Collinwood to exorcise Quentin. He torments her and then kills her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpaESNFB8tg

On Passions that Peeping Tom/Rapist storyline where damn near everyday night for a month Fancy kept getting attacked. The rapes were pretty graphic, I could barely watch.

Emilys rape on GH and Maggies murder on Days came to mind first.

Sarah's death on Hollyoaks. Her ex-girlfriend Lydia was jealous of the growing relationship between Sarah and Zoe, so when Sarah and Zoe went skydiving, Lydia followed them and cut Zoe's parachute. Unfortunately, the parachutes were swapped, and Sarah used the cut up one. As she and Zoe are falling through the air, she pulls for her chute to open, but it never does, and you see the horror on her face as she realizes she's about to fall to her death.

Margo's rape on ATWT is on my top ten list of worst scenes. No glamorization or romanticizing. It showed rape for exactly the violent act it is.

Edited August 20, 201213 yr by marceline

Margo's rape on ATWT is on my top ten list of worst scenes. No glamorization or romanticizing. It showed rape for exactly the violent act it is.

I was going to say anything on GH as of late, but I'm going to have to go with this. Those scenes were graphic and horrifying but excellent execution and storytelling. Rape is not a love story, rape was not pretty AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, rape was not a plot point. I was talking to someone not so long ago about Margo's rape, and I told her that was back when rape was rape. Women were not running after their rapist to be "raped" again.

This is kind of random but I remember asking somebody about GL. I had never really seen the show before. They started to tell me how great it was and about this Nurse Annie Dutton who had lost a baby but kept the dead fetus inside of her for whatever reason... Needless to say, I couldn't tune in to watch GL after that. For some reason, the whole idea of this was truly horrifying.

Another horrible scene was Emily being strangled to death and gurgling all the way to her last gasp.

Speaking of which, Adam throwing Ashley's fetus into fire on Y&R was pretty hard to watch

To me anytime a pregnant woman gets abused is horrifying. Watching Sam on GH get yanked by the hair and punched in the face was just too much

Gabrielle's death on OLTL. I'm glad that I haven't found it on YouTube yet--I don't know if I could watch it again.

And while I didn't like her, seeing Jen's death on OLTL was pretty difficult to watch, too.