Bone Lake (2024)

Bone-Lake-(2024)
Bone Lake (2024)

It’s pretty impossible not to have a bias against a movie called Bone Lake. Even the characters themselves are, more or less, familiar with that suggestive title. Nevertheless, director Mercedes Bryce Morgan (A Spoonful of Sugar) and writer Joshua Friedlander embrace that sordid synergy of their endeavor; there is sexy and dangerous fun to be had here as two couples meet for the first time in this four-hander erotic thriller.  The Bone Lake has earned its viewers a good reputation across its borders as Bone Lake has been described as a ‘lurid lifetime movie’, which is not entirely untrue. Of course, and in all honesty, this is a more worthwhile and better-made piece of modern exploitation. First off: there is little doubt in anyone’s mind that the setup is anything but innocent. Two young and attractive couples just happen to reserve the same rental property at the same time. Understandably the situation should seem fishy to anyone who has an iota of experience with these kinds of thrillers. Even so, at least with regard to this context, playing along is never taxing because Bone Lake is fully cognizant of its audience, who is most likely dubious about everything right from the very beginning. And knowing something sinister is in store doesn’t break up the party.

The film mostly takes place in just one area. The plot then shifts to a captivating, secluded estate where Marco Pigossi and Maddie Hasson’s characters invite two strangers played by Alex Roe and Andra Nechita to join them. The setting is now a beautiful, yet creepy mansion where the rest of the plot unfolds as well. Even though this has a sense of having been around the block before, it still manages to shape up well in the end. In this particular film, it is said that Bone Lake manages to stay among the fog of cliches whilst also hiding the climax from the audience completely.

It would be an understatement to say that what makes this film better is the cast. The supporting characters tend to be little more than the roles they were given to play in the film the struggling scribe, the repressed lover, and the seductress but sure, they do add something to the story which makes their struggle to survive more interesting. We already see Diego (Pigossi) and Sage (Hasson) as balancing on a strand before Roe and Nechita’s will and Celina come into the picture; their self-consuming doubts make it easier to excuse their complete ignorance of this other couple who look like a red flag. The disregard is quite comical, particularly in those cases when suspicious actions are quite plainly forced. As for the other haters of this free-spirited distraction by the one who was supposed to be the victims, however, nothing becomes the same before the third one.

In regard to Will and Cin, their character development cannot be compared to that of their seasonal friends. The holiday with friends seems to lead to action for the sake of action and logic. There is a fringed attempt to reveal deliberately and investigate their motives, but who cares about that? It’s never so tasty compared to their intrigues and what is surrounding them. Roe and Nechita bring out the color of this entertainingly sleazy script, and absent of them Bone Lake hardly would be surviving.

There are no big surprises in Bone Lake. If you are looking for something a little more original and less obvious, you will have to look a lot further. But Bone Lake actually knows what kind of film it is and as long as that is out of the way, that is where the fun begins.

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