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Viewers who are seeking a horror-slasher film that delivers dumb fun while eliciting cringes, it's likely Bone Lake is on your curiosity. The latest chilling feature from filmmaker Mercedes Bryce Morgan debuted in theaters on the third of October with an outlandish setup and a provocative name to suit.

Heads-up: Key reveals below for the ending of Bone Lake.

A Blend of Levity and Darkness

Considering the moniker like Bone Lake and an opening sequence featuring individuals sprinting stark naked through the woods—only to be shot with a hunting weapon in sensitive areas—you'd be right there's ample levity in the film. Moreover, the final scenes, which portray the central pair looking worse for wear yet laughing uncontrollably in unison, have a sense of macabre comedy.

You would need to discover a reason to laugh about, as well, if you went through what Diego and the character Sage go through in Bone Lake. A pair plagued by partnership troubles from the beginning—failure to talk, unsatisfying sex, an unfair burden of financial responsibility, etc.—their relationship is put to the test when additional characters, the character Will and Cin, gatecrash their couple's getaway.

A Dark Change

At first seeming to be a contrast of differences between the two pairs—Sage and Diego are clumsy and everyday people, whereas Cin and Will have a affluent, opulent existence and appear to be kissing on all available spots—takes a dark turn as the trip goes on. Will and Cin prey upon Diego and Sage's insecurities in their partnership. They circulate falsehoods and gossip about the protagonists, alleging to have information on an cheating and additional personal issues.

These anxieties explode in the biggest way conceivable when Diego and Sage learn that Cin and Will are not simply here at Bone Lake accidentally: they possess it and have been enticing duos to the estate in order to coax them to stray on their significant others. For what purpose? As Cin and Will are in fact siblings. After their incestuous affair was found out by their parents and they were split apart against their will, they decided to take revenge on everyone else (including their family). Since the people turned against them just because of their desired relationship, then they'll fight back at the society. Cin and Will's aim is to show a reflection to all the pairs they finally end up eliminating, in an effort to prove that their affection is no less real (or illegitimate) as the love of these other couples they try to separate.

Surprising Resilience

But, what Cin and Will fail to consider is that Diego and Sage, in spite of their lack of communication with one another, truly love and love each other. It needed having a deadly duo try to split them apart and take their lives to understand it. Though it may seem dark, it isn't played that way. Bone Lake's mood is leaning toward comedy than genuine horror.

The movie concludes with Sage and Diego working together to get away from Will and Cin's murderous intentions. Notably is that while, at the start of the feature, you perceive a deep abyss in the relationship between Sage and Diego in contrast to Cin and Will, by the finale, Bone Lake flips it around. Will and Cin separate to hunt Diego and Sage, but Sage and Diego are talking more effectively at this stage. They team up to kill the character Will with a chainsaw. They after that attack Cin, who dies horribly at the floor of Bone Lake's lake—but not before Diego reclaims the wedding ring intended for the character Sage that the character Will had swiped and given to the character Cin.

Aftermath

After all the chaos of their double murder, drenched in blood and viscera, Diego and Sage are seated on the back of a boat. Ironically, this is the most intimate they've connected since the outset of the movie, now that all their partnership issues have been revealed for each of them to witness, and all they have left are their battered and bruised selves. To confirm their new closeness and intimate understanding of one another, Diego reaches over to place the marriage symbol on the character Sage's hand and, when she rotates to view it in the light, the two start chuckling.

It's easy to grasp the cause: At the time, the character Will offered engagement to Cin, it was a idyllic, romantic moment. However, when the character Diego follows suit for Sage, they've recently survived a terrifying experience. But still, the character Diego's marriage offer to Sage is not grounded in deceit, only the understanding that they've emerged from the most terrible experience of their time and, after all that, they yet desire to pass the remainder of their days together.

Director's Perspective

But, as filmmaker Mercedes Bryce Morgan notes, the ending is not a guarantee of a perfect future for the couple.

"After enduring that situation with another person where you endure a deadly massacre, what do you recover from that? How do you act as a person? Therefore I aimed to depict all of the instants there as one where it's this euphoria of 'thank God' and 'are we receiving what we've longed for, but what on earth occurred? What exactly do we do at this point?' And then that dawning of reality of 'how does this affect for us {now|today|from