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If you're seeking a horror-slasher movie that offers guilty pleasure while eliciting cringes, it's likely Bone Lake has caught your attention. This new chilling feature from director Mercedes Bryce Morgan arrived at cinemas on October 3rd with an ridiculous concept and a provocative name to suit.

Note: Spoilers follow for the finale of Bone Lake.

A Mix of Comedy and Terror

Given the title like Bone Lake and an initial moments featuring individuals sprinting butt naked through the wilderness—only to be shot with a bow in vulnerable spots—one can guess there's plenty of levity all through the story. Moreover, the final scenes, which depict the protagonists looking worse for wear yet giggling hysterically in unison, carry a sense of dark humor.

It would be necessary to seek out a cause to smile at, as well, if you endured what Diego and the character Sage go through in Bone Lake. A duo full of romantic issues from the beginning—lack of communication, disappointing physical relations, an unfair burden of economic duties, etc.—their connection is put to the test when additional characters, the character Will and the character Cin, invade their love-filled retreat.

A Morbid Shift

At first seeming to be a contrast of contrasts between the duos—Sage and Diego are clumsy and blue-collar, whereas Cin and Will have a rich, lavish lifestyle and appear to be being intimate on all available spots—takes a dark turn as the trip unfolds. Cin and Will manipulate Diego and Sage's fears in their relationship. They circulate falsehoods and rumors about the other couple, alleging to know about an infidelity and additional personal issues.

The doubts erupt in the most extreme way imaginable when Diego and Sage discover that Cin and Will are not simply here at Bone Lake by mistake: they own it and have been attracting couples to the property in order to persuade them to stray on their loved ones. The reason? Because Cin and Will are truly siblings. After their incestuous affair was found out by their mother and father and they were forcibly separated against their will, they chose to get back at the world (including their parents). If the society rejected them only for their choice of love, then they'll turn against the everyone. Cin and Will's goal is to hold up a mirror to all the duos they eventually end up killing, in an endeavor to show that their affection is no less real (or invalid) as the love of these additional duos they try to separate.

Unforeseen Strengths

Yet, what Cin and Will overlook is that Diego and Sage, regardless of their poor dialogue with one another, truly love and cherish each other. It just took having a murderous couple try to end their relationship and murder them to understand it. While it appears serious, it is not shown that way. Bone Lake's tone is closer to satire than genuine horror.

The story ends with Diego and Sage teaming up to evade Cin and Will's killer motives. What's interesting is that while, at the outset of the feature, you perceive a huge gap in the relationship between Sage and Diego in comparison to Cin and Will, by the conclusion, Bone Lake flips it on its head. Cin and Will go their own ways to pursue Diego and Sage, but Sage and Diego are communicating better now. They team up to butcher the character Will with a power tool. They then confront Cin, who meets a bloody fate at the floor of Bone Lake's lake—but just before the character Diego retrieves the wedding ring intended for the character Sage that the character Will had swiped and presented to the character Cin.

Aftermath

Following the events of their two killings, smeared with bodily fluids, Sage and Diego sit together on the end of a craft. Unexpectedly, this is the most intimate they've connected since the beginning of the film, given that all their partnership issues have been exposed for the two to observe, and all they have to hold onto are their injured and sore selves. As though to confirm their renewed intimacy and deep connection of one another, Diego leans over to put the wedding ring on Sage's finger and, when she turns to view it in the sunlight, the pair start chuckling.

One can easily to see why: When, Will proposed to Cin, it was a perfect, loving scene. Whereas the character Diego repeats the act for the character Sage, they've just gotten away from a brutal nightmare. And yet, Diego's engagement question to Sage is free from deceit, only the awareness that they've come out of the most terrible experience of their time and, following all that, they even now desire to spend the remainder of their days as one.

Filmmaker's Insight

But, as director Mercedes Bryce Morgan explains, the conclusion may not lead to a perfect future for Sage and Diego.

"After enduring that situation with someone where you go through a violent killing spree, how do you emerge from that? What actions do you take as a person? Thus I aimed to depict all of the moments there as one where it's this euphoria of 'what a relief' and 'are we getting what we've always wanted, but what in the world transpired? What the fuck do we do from here?' Plus that dawning of the truth of 'how does this affect for us {now|today|from