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If you're looking for a gory thriller film that offers mindless entertainment while causing discomfort, it's likely Bone Lake is on your interest. This new chilling feature from director Mercedes Bryce Morgan debuted in movie houses on October 3rd with an outlandish setup and a evocative label to suit.

Note: Spoilers below for the conclusion of Bone Lake.

A Combination of Humor and Terror

Considering the moniker like Bone Lake and an initial moments featuring people dashing stark naked through the woods—only to be shot with a hunting weapon in sensitive areas—it's safe to assume there's a lot of levity all through the movie. Even, the movie's conclusion, which show the central pair battered and bruised yet laughing uncontrollably together, exude a tone of grim amusement.

It would be necessary to seek out a cause to laugh about, also, if you experienced what Diego and the character Sage experience in Bone Lake. A pair riddled with partnership troubles from the start—lack of communication, unsatisfying sex, an unequal share of financial responsibility, you name it—their relationship is put to the test when another duo, the character Will and the character Cin, interrupt their couple's getaway.

A Dark Shift

What initially appears to be a conflict of contrasts between the two couples—Diego and Sage are awkward and blue-collar, whereas Cin and Will have a affluent, opulent lifestyle and are seen kissing on any handy location—becomes sinister as the getaway progresses. Will and Cin prey upon Diego and Sage's doubts in their partnership. They tell untruths and rumors about the opposite pair, claiming to be aware of an cheating and further conflicts.

All of these doubts burst in the biggest way possible when Diego and Sage find out that Cin and Will aren't just here at Bone Lake accidentally: they own it and have been attracting couples to the grounds in order to get them to be unfaithful on their loved ones. For what purpose? Because Will and Cin are truly siblings. Following their taboo romance was found out by their mother and father and they were pulled away against their will, they decided to take revenge on all others (including their family). Since the world condemned them simply for loving who they want, then they'll fight back at the everyone. Will and Cin's aim is to hold up a mirror to all the duos they eventually end up eliminating, in an endeavor to demonstrate that their affection is just as valid (or illegitimate) as the connection of these different pairs they try to split.

Unexpected Resilience

However, what Will and Cin fail to consider is that Sage and Diego, regardless of their poor dialogue with one another, do care for and love each other. It just took having a killer pair try to end their relationship and murder them to realize it. While it appears dark, it is not presented that way. Bone Lake's tone is leaning toward comedy than true terror.

The movie concludes with Diego and Sage joining forces to evade Will and Cin's murderous intentions. Interestingly is that while, at the beginning of the feature, you sense a huge gap in the bond between Diego and Sage in relation to Will and Cin, by the finale, Bone Lake reverses it on its head. Cin and Will go their own ways to chase Sage and Diego, but Diego and Sage are communicating better at this stage. They join forces to slay Will with a power tool. They after that attack Cin, who meets a bloody fate at the floor of Bone Lake's pond—but not before Diego reclaims the marriage symbol meant for the character Sage that Will had taken and gifted to Cin.

Aftermath

Following the events of their pair of slayings, covered in bodily fluids, Diego and Sage are seated on the edge of a boat. Unexpectedly, this is the most intimate they've felt since the outset of the film, now that all their relationship troubles have been revealed for both of them to see, and all they have to hold onto are their battered and bruised selves. To confirm their new closeness and deep connection of one another, the character Diego leans over to slip the marriage symbol on the character Sage's finger and, when she rotates to examine it in the sunlight, the couple start chuckling.

It's not hard to grasp the cause: At the time, the character Will offered engagement to the character Cin, it was a picturesque, loving scene. When the character Diego follows suit for the character Sage, they've only gotten away from a horrific ordeal. And yet, Diego's marriage offer to Sage is free from lies, just the awareness that they've come out of the most terrible experience of their existence and, following all that, they yet desire to share the future together as one.

Creator's Perspective

But, as filmmaker Mercedes Bryce Morgan notes, the ending may not lead to a fairy-tale ending for Sage and Diego.

"When you experience that circumstance with a partner where you face a deadly massacre, what do you recover from that? What actions do you take as a person? And so I wanted to capture all of the times there together where it's this joy of 'thank goodness' and 'are we receiving what we've always wanted, but what in the world occurred? How in the world do we do from here?' Plus that sinking in of reality of 'what are the implications for us {now|today|from