Soaps know how to pull off a gruesome death (Picture: REX / GETTY / BBC)
All good things must come to an end, and on our favourite soaps, some exits are more permanent than others.
Soaps like EastEnders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Hollyoaks have had their fair share of dramatic deaths over the years – and they certainly know how to make them memorable.
This Halloween, we are taking a look at some of the most gruesome dispatches across supposedly family friendly shows.
Wooden knitting needles, car crushes, lorries, photo frames, hammers, chair legs and a wobbly piece of glass copping off a head are just some scenes that actors can have on a grim Spotlight CV.
Re-live some of the scariest and most shocking ones here…
Kush Kazemi – a sub(way) par death
We open with something that we still haven’t forgiven – and never will. Your everyday kind soul Kush didn’t deserve this.
In one of the most painfully conceived serial killer storylines of soap history, Gray Atkins’ saga went from a powerful and harrowing story of domestic abuse to a kill-by-numbers panto-fest.
As a result, we had to lose two great characters in Kush Kazemi and Tina Carter. And Kush’s exit was particularly hard to stomach.
After an altercation with Gray, whose life he saved, Kush was thrown under the tracks of a speeding train.
Maxine Peacock – a Corrie crowbar clobbering
Corrie got seriously grim when soap’s most infamous killer set out to bash poor, old Emily Bishop’s skull in with a crowbar – which he actually did. Stomach churning enough, right?
Maxine then came home and was rightly told that she should have stayed at the party as Richard went on to bludgeon her too.
Maxine was killed while Emily ‘skull of steel’ Bishop lived on.
The most violent moment was when Emily’s bashing was spliced with a cleaver going through meat in another scene. Macabre, Corrie.
Sarah Barnes – a Hollyoaks flight of doom
We will never even consider a skydive after this horrifying Hollyoaks scene which saw Sarah’s chute sabotaged.
As she leapt for the jump of her life, it turned out to be the jump of her death and Hollyoaks fans to this day still consider it one of soap’s most shocking death scenes ever.
Trina Johnson – an EastEnders rotten rake ravage
A rake in the neck? Oh, EastEnders, you do spoil us.
Dog drowning and prostitute strangling Lucas was chilling enough but when he silenced his demanding ex Trina by shoving her against the sharp end of a gardening tool, and the gargling sound which followed was enough to make us shove our dinners aside.
Andrea Tate – A-maze-ingly cruel
You could – and should – argue that all of crazed Meena Jutla’s killings were gruesome. She pushed teenager Leanna to her death from a bridge and clobbered Ben Tucker with an oar that must have been sore.
But she went all out when it came to Andrea Tate. Not content with swinging a metal signpost at her, …read more
Source:: Metro
