The movie I watched implied that she didn't. The synopsis says though that she was pulled from the lake by her parents barely breathing. Krug's reaction to her on the couch was ambiguous.
So, is there a longer version or director's commentary that gives a definitive answer as to whether she lived or not?
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No.
After her mother finds the body, the father (doctor) says she's dead.
I was always confused about that^ since she was moving.
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I did sixty in five minutes once...
Yeah; that was a really bad mistake, which loses a whole star from my rating.
And anyway, if she was shot that many times and went under water, something tells me she wouldn't be alive after all that time, just to conveniently die the moment her parents found her.
She died.
I stumbled on a $3 DVD of the unrated version, with deleted/"forbidden" scenes and commentary from Craven, actors, etc. You see Mari breathing and moving when her parents find her by the river, as the original plan was to have her live long enough to name her killers. That's why you see the mother's lips not matching some dialogue, and the father's lips not moving when he says, "She's dead." This was later dubbed. The mother is leaning over to listen to her dying words; "Oh my baby, my baby!" was also dubbed. She would have died seconds later, in any case.
I suppose Craven decided later that such a dying utterance would be superfluous - hence no re-shoot of the scene - as Estelle had already overheard this information; the reason the parents had run down to the river in the first place.
Mari's father, a doctor, would surely (?) have been constantly attending to her on the couch were she still alive, it seems.
Didja know? David Hess (Krug), as David Hill, recorded "I'm All Shook Up" before Elvis did (as "All Shook Up"), as did Vicki Young, and purportedly - per the DVD - actually wrote the song. (His version, noted as the original, is on YouTube.) He composed the music for this movie, plus others, as well as (other) songs, including Elvis's "I Got Stung," for which he *is* credited.
Fred Lincoln (Weasel) had the idea to put the end of his belt through his fly to give Cynthia Carr (Estelle) something to hold in her teeth and shake back and forth to make that scene look more realistic. (Sorry, guys!) I guess we don't know Weasel's ultimate fate.
Fred Lincoln (Weasel) had the idea to put the end of his belt through his fly to give Cynthia Carr (Estelle) something to hold in her teeth and shake back and forth to make that scene look more realistic. (Sorry, guys!) I guess we don't know Weasel's ultimate fate.