Marks Death Was Creative, but not really Disturbing
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williampum — 11 years ago(February 01, 2015 12:25 AM)
From what I remember, and its been a while since I last saw NOES 5, but just the other day I watched it for the 1st time in a while.
While it was creative how Marks dream sequence was in how he died or however Lame some others may think his death was, Marks Death despite him bleeding to death after being cut up from Freddy ripping him apart like ripping up paper, was not all that much gruesome and as hard to watch as I once originally remembered and thought. Not after watching his dream sequence again for the 1st time in a long while.
When you compare Marks Comic Book Death to that of what Carlos (deaf kid)had to endure in his Death from NOES 6 Freddys Dead, Tinas or Glens from Original NOES, or that of Phillips (Puppet Death) NOES 3, Debbie & Shielas from NOES 4, and Dans in NOES 5, and Gretas was pretty Bad as well, Marks Death really pales in comparison.
They do show a scene where once Mark dies, they show him bleeding badly, but you do not see him bleeding during the scene when Freddy is Ripping him apart. While there is blood and gore, its not really that bad. Its still a watchable Dream or Death sequence.
As for me, watching Carlos, Dans, Phillips, Shielas, Rons, Tinas, Debbies and Grettas Deaths were very much more Sadistic and vile and Glenns Death due to so much blood was just disgusting and gross. I never felt as uncomfortable watching Marks Death as I was the others.
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Smug_Grinch — 10 years ago(August 18, 2015 11:39 PM)
Mark's death was, I believe, just supposed to be more ironic than anything else. Mark loved comics and thought being the hero would help him save the day. But Freddy turned the tables on him and used them to kill him. The puddle of tie-died blood was cool, and I thought the "shredding" of him into tiny pieces was clever because I don't think they would've ever gotten away with doing that live-action. It makes you imagine that he's being turned into mince-meat. But the let-down for me is that Mark's body only shows signs of damage from the building collapsing on him after Freddy destroyed it in the dream, and not being mauled by Freddy. With previous movies, injuries sustained in the dream translate to real-world injuries (Tina's slashes, Nancy being cut and burned) except in the death of Kincaid and Phillip's walker death. Anti-climactic.
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ScorpionTDC — 10 years ago(August 30, 2015 03:04 PM)
In all honesty, his is arguably one of the most disturbing if you really think about it from Mark's PoV. He's being slowly shredded into pieces.
In film? Yeah, it's more campy than disturbing, but I still liked it for the creativity
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bossdog677 — 10 years ago(January 30, 2016 02:21 PM)
By this point in the movie we really like Mark and want him to survived and Dan and Greta got it so bad that most releases had to do toned down 2nd takes so they took it easy on us with Mark and lightened the mood with penial jokes and Super Freddy but ya know it was actually good unlike that damn Power Glove Death
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The_Keeper_of_Angela_Baker — 10 years ago(February 27, 2016 03:11 AM)
I did think it was disturbing because, while not as visceral as Debbie's was in Nightmare 4, it was this movie's equivalent Freddy dehumanized Mark. He turned him into a helpless sheet of paper incapable of anything but screaming and that seemed rather disturbing to me, at least the first time I saw it back in '89.