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Viewers who are seeking a gory thriller movie that delivers guilty pleasure while causing discomfort, chances are Bone Lake has grabbed your attention. This new chilling feature from director Mercedes Bryce Morgan hit movie houses on Oct. 3 with an outlandish setup and a evocative label to complement.

Note: Key reveals below for the ending of Bone Lake.

A Mix of Humor and Darkness

With a name like Bone Lake and an opening sequence featuring individuals dashing completely nude through the woods—only to be targeted with a crossbow in private parts—one can guess there's ample humor in the movie. Additionally, the movie's conclusion, which show the central pair looking worse for wear yet giggling hysterically side by side, carry a sense of macabre comedy.

It would be necessary to discover a reason to chuckle over, as well, if you endured what Diego and the character Sage go through in Bone Lake. A pair plagued by partnership troubles from the start—lack of communication, unsatisfying sex, an disproportionate load of financial responsibility, etc.—their relationship is strained when a second pair, the character Will and the character Cin, gatecrash their romantic weekend.

A Morbid Shift

Seemingly at the start to be a conflict of opposites between the two pairs—Sage and Diego are awkward and blue-collar, whereas Will and Cin have a affluent, opulent way of life and are seen being intimate on every surface possible—takes a dark turn as the weekend goes on. Cin and Will manipulate Diego and Sage's doubts in their relationship. They spread lies and gossip about the protagonists, claiming to have information on an cheating and further conflicts.

All of these insecurities burst in the biggest way conceivable when Sage and Diego discover that Will and Cin aren't just here at Bone Lake accidentally: they are the owners and have been luring duos to the grounds in order to get them to be unfaithful on their significant others. The reason? Because Cin and Will are truly brother and sister. Subsequent to their forbidden relationship was discovered by their parents and they were forcibly separated against their will, they decided to take revenge on the world (including their relatives). Given that the people rejected them only for loving who they want, then they'll turn against the everyone. Cin and Will's goal is to hold up a mirror to all the pairs they eventually end up killing, in an effort to prove that their love is equally legitimate (or invalid) as the affection of these additional duos they try to break up.

Unexpected Strengths

Yet, what Cin and Will fail to consider is that Sage and Diego, in spite of their lack of communication with one another, deeply value and love each other. It needed having a killer pair try to split them apart and murder them to see it. Though it may seem dark, it isn't played that way. Bone Lake's tone is closer to satire than actual fear.

The film ends with Diego and Sage teaming up to escape Cin and Will's deadly plans. What's interesting is that while, at the start of the feature, you feel a vast divide in the partnership between Diego and Sage in relation to Cin and Will, by the end, Bone Lake flips it around. Will and Cin split up to chase Sage and Diego, but Sage and Diego are interacting improved now. They collaborate to butcher the character Will with a power tool. They then confront the character Cin, who meets her grisly end at the floor of Bone Lake's lake—but only after the character Diego reclaims the wedding ring meant for the character Sage that the character Will had taken and presented to Cin.

Aftereffects

Following the events of their double murder, drenched in gore and flesh, Sage and Diego sit together on the back of a boat. Paradoxically, this is the most intimate they've connected since the beginning of the story, since all their romantic problems have been laid out for both of them to see, and all they have remaining are their beaten and wounded physiques. To affirm their new closeness and deep connection of one another, the character Diego moves closer to put the wedding ring on Sage's finger and, when she rotates to inspect it in the sunlight, the pair start chuckling.

It's easy to understand the reason: At the time, the character Will asked for marriage to Cin, it was a perfect, romantic moment. Whereas Diego repeats the act for Sage, they've only survived a terrifying experience. But still, Diego's marriage offer to Sage is free from deceit, simply the awareness that they've survived the most horrific event of their existence and, after all that, they even now desire to spend the future together as one.

Filmmaker's Perspective

However, as filmmaker Mercedes Bryce Morgan clarifies, the finale is not a guarantee of a fairy-tale ending for Sage and Diego.

"If you go through that scenario with a partner where you face a deadly massacre, what do you recover from that? What actions do you take as a person? Therefore I wanted to capture all of the instants there as one where it's this elation of 'thank goodness' and 'have we obtained what we've dreamed of, but what in the world transpired? What exactly do we do from here?' Plus that set in of reality of 'how does this affect for us {now|today|from