Most Horrifying Soap Opera Storyline/Scene

[MissLlanviewPA]

The part where she says "I beg of you, I have a child," right before Fax kills her? Apparently Alice Barrett added that line in herself.

[Mitch]

One thing about the AW storyline and this scene, it was done seriously and the violence was shown to be just that, violent and horrifying. I hate when soaps took on a serial killer storyline but didnt have the balls to show that the victims died horrible deaths, i.e. that Loving craptastic storyline where people were killed by "poisioned body powder," or a "poisioned candle" (huh???) or one guy having cement or something dumped on him and he apparently just stood there, letting it harden on him and killing him (not the mention the HI-larious scene of his body falling on someone out of the casket.) It was like the SSK storyline, first it started it kind of scary and then Marlena became a stupid Freddy Krueger killing tossing off one liners. And if you think your ballsy in killing an old woman, they should have gone on the way and let us watch her choke and turn blue. In other words dont do a serial killer storyline unless you intend to show the violence on the victim and their survivors.

One of the most disturbing scenes was when Brent/Marion killed Nadine and dumped her body in the garbage dumpster. I never saw a Cooper I didnt hate but poor Nadine was treated, well like garbage. I could have accepted that as most sk' s view their victims as just that, but of course McTavish had Brent doing his own bad little puns with her body.

[Vee]

There's also the scene where we as an audience were inexplicably forced to watch the young Jessica's porn tape on OLTL in Dena Higley's horrific Tess/Jess story. Viki and Clint sat there and watched that all hour long.

[Ms. Chandler Quartermaine]

Whenever I see that clip, all I think is "why didn't Frankie block the door"!

[hot20]

That scene was the first one that came to my mind when I read the question. That scene shocked the hell out of me. I could not believe that they would kill a beloved character off in such a violent manner. Seeing Nadine bludgeoned to death had me shaking. As a matter of fact, the whole Brent/Marian storyline was dark and disturbing. While I've always loved dark storylines, this one was a little too dark and it put a dark cloud over Guiding Light the whole time it played out. Ironically this storyline produced another equally shocking and disturbing scene. That scene was when Brent/Marian changed the results of Lucy's AIDs test to make her think she had AIDs. That was too much for me. Too heartbreaking to watch Lucy and her family cry hystericaly thinking she had AIDS.

[marceline]

I've never seen that. I understand now why it bothers people so much. Especially if she was a beloved character.

[ellabelle]

I had never seen that scene before this thread. That was awful to watch. At the same time though, I do kind of understand why soaps do storylines with women being raped by men they know - statistically isn't that far more likely to be the case, that most victims know their attacker instead of the unknown bad guy in a mask scenario?

[antmunoz]

Jennifer shooting Eunice to death on SFT in 1976.

Two decades before Maureen Bauer and Frankie Frame. You just DIDN'T kill off major heroines in one episode like that!

I never saw it coming.

Jennifer shooting Eunice to death on SFT in 1976.

Two decades before Maureen Bauer and Frankie Frame. You just DIDN'T kill off major heroines in one episode like that!

I never saw it coming.

[frequentsoapfan]

At watching the first epi of La Reina Del Sur I have to say that rape scene where he's telling her how they killed her husband while he's raping her is horrifying! They showed him cutting off her shirt, ripping off her panties, moving on top of her.

[marceline]

I just watched that ep (Thanks for the link.) and I have to agree. That was seriously disturbing.

[juppiter]

LOL. Funny that this happened the same year "Scream" came out and made fun of all those horror clichés and the inevitable questions they bring up to a rational thinking person.

[frequentsoapfan]

I was shocked and disgusted and glad vile man got what was coming to him afterwards. They certainly portrayed the vile act that rape is unlike American soaps.