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For those wanting a horror-slasher flick that provides dumb fun while eliciting cringes, chances are Bone Lake has grabbed your curiosity. A recent horror movie from director Mercedes Bryce Morgan debuted in movie houses on the third of October with an outlandish setup and a evocative label to suit.

Note: Plot details below for the finale of Bone Lake.

A Combination of Humor and Terror

Given the title like Bone Lake and an introductory scene featuring people dashing completely nude through the forest—only to be shot with a crossbow in vulnerable spots—you'd be right there's a lot of humor throughout the film. Additionally, the final scenes, which show the central pair exhausted and injured yet giggling hysterically side by side, exude a feeling of grim amusement.

It would be necessary to find something to chuckle over, as well, if you went through what Diego and Sage go through in Bone Lake. A pair riddled with partnership troubles from the get-go—poor dialogue, unfulfilling intimacy, an unequal share of money pressures, etc.—their relationship is strained when a second pair, the character Will and the character Cin, interrupt their couple's getaway.

A Morbid Change

Seemingly at the start to be a conflict of differences between the two couples—Sage and Diego are clumsy and working-class, whereas Cin and Will have a wealthy, luxurious existence and are seen making out on any handy location—shifts to horror as the weekend unfolds. Will and Cin manipulate Sage and Diego's insecurities in their union. They spread lies and talk about the other couple, claiming to know about an affair and further conflicts.

All of these doubts explode in the biggest way conceivable when Sage and Diego discover that Will and Cin are not simply here at Bone Lake by chance: they are the owners and have been luring pairs to the estate in order to coax them to stray on their partners. The reason? Since Cin and Will are actually brother and sister. Subsequent to their incestuous affair was found out by their family and they were pulled away against their will, they resolved to punish all others (including their parents). Given that the world rejected them just because of loving who they want, then they'll oppose the everyone. Cin and Will's objective is to show a reflection to all the duos they eventually end up murdering, in an attempt to show that their love is equally legitimate (or illegitimate) as the love of these different pairs they try to break up.

Unforeseen Resilience

However, what Cin and Will don't take into account is that Sage and Diego, in spite of their lack of communication with one another, do care for and cherish each other. It just took having a deadly duo try to end their relationship and kill them to understand it. Though it may seem grim, it isn't played that way. Bone Lake's tone is leaning toward comedy than true terror.

The movie ends with Sage and Diego teaming up to escape Cin and Will's murderous intentions. Interestingly is that while, at the start of the film, you sense a deep abyss in the partnership between Diego and Sage in relation to Cin and Will, by the conclusion, Bone Lake turns it on its head. Will and Cin split up to pursue Sage and Diego, but Sage and Diego are interacting improved at this stage. They team up to slay Will with a cutting device. They next attack the character Cin, who meets a bloody fate at the bottom of Bone Lake's pond—but only after Diego takes back the engagement band destined for Sage that the character Will had stolen and given to the character Cin.

Aftermath

In the aftermath of their double murder, smeared with bodily fluids, Diego and Sage rest side by side on the end of a craft. Unexpectedly, this is the nearest they've been since the outset of the story, since all their partnership issues have been laid out for the two to observe, and all they have left are their injured and sore physiques. As though to affirm their new closeness and intimate understanding of one another, the character Diego reaches over to put the marriage symbol on Sage's finger and, when she turns to examine it in the sunlight, the two break into laughter.

It's easy to grasp the cause: Earlier, Will proposed to Cin, it was a idyllic, loving scene. When the character Diego repeats the act for Sage, they've only survived a horrific ordeal. Nonetheless, the character Diego's engagement question to the character Sage is not based on lies, only the understanding that they've survived the most horrific event of their existence and, following all that, they yet desire to share the rest of their life with each other.

Director's View

But, as filmmaker Mercedes Bryce Morgan notes, the finale doesn't necessarily mean a happy ever after for Sage and Diego.

"When you experience that scenario with someone where you face a violent killing spree, how can you come out of that? How do you act as a person? Therefore I sought to show all of the instants there together where it's this joy of 'thank God' and 'are we getting what we've longed for, but what the fuck transpired? What exactly do we do now?' Plus that dawning of the situation of 'what does that mean for us {now|today|from