{"id":13145,"date":"2025-09-30T22:27:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=13145"},"modified":"2025-11-11T11:47:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T16:47:24","slug":"bone-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2025\/09\/30\/bone-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Bone Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Bone Lake<\/strong> (2025)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bleecker Street\/Horror-Thriller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 94 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong bloody violence, grisly images, strong sexual content, graphic nudity, language throughout, some drug use)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Mercedes Bryce Morgan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Joshua Friedlander\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Roque Banos and Ben Cherney\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Nick Matthews\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: October 3, 2025 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Maddie Hasson, Marco Pigossi, Alex Roe, Andra Nechita.<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: *<\/p>\n

\u00a0Bone Lake<\/strong> is for boneheads. It\u2019s perfectly fitting seeing as it\u2019s populated by boneheads, four of them to be exact. Let\u2019s do a quick roll call. We\u2019ve got two couples, one evil and the other incredibly stupid, all of them equally insufferable. I haven\u2019t disliked four characters this strongly since Closer (2004). The only good part of this frighteningly bad horror movie is the blood-soaked finale. It involves an axe, a chainsaw and an outboard motor. It\u2019s cool, but it doesn\u2019t come anywhere close to justifying the idiotic nonsense that preceded it.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The stupid couple, struggling writer Diego (Pigossi, Boogie Oogie) and his supportive girlfriend Sage (Hasson, Malignant), show up at secluded Bone Lake expecting a weekend to themselves. Diego plans to make it a \u201cclothing optional\u201d weekend. Their plans are derailed by the unexpected arrival of another couple, Will (Roe, Rings) and Cinnamon (Nechita, Bad Teacher), who rented the mansion for the same weekend. They\u2019re the bad ones. They can\u2019t get a hold of the owner and it\u2019s 50 miles to the nearest hotel. Will and Cin propose sharing the mansion and getting to know each other. Diego and Sage go along with it. That\u2019s their first mistake.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I\u2019ll cut right to the chase. Will and Cin love to play mind games. It isn\u2019t long before they start screwing with Diego and Sage\u2019s minds, getting them to reveal deep, dark secrets and weaponizing them against the unsuspecting couple who stupidly play right into the sinister couple\u2019s hands. It all leads up to the bloodbath I mentioned earlier.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I get what director Mercedes Bryce Morgan (Spoonful of Sugar) is going for with Bone Lake<\/strong>. It\u2019s a psychological thriller that hearkens back to 70s horrors like The Last House on the Left (1972) and I Spit on Your Grave (1978). I appreciate the effort, but the film fails to do more than try the viewer\u2019s patience. I became irritated by the utter stupidity of the good couple. Take the scene where Diego shows Will the engagement ring he plans to give to Sage when he proposes later that weekend. He then puts it back in its hiding place in front of this guy he barely knows. A smart person would keep it on his person. Is it any wonder what happens later with the ring? Sage isn\u2019t much better going off to the store alone with Will while Diego stays behind with Cin. ANYTHING could have happened! And it does. The long and short of it is they\u2019re both idiots and they deserve each other.<\/p>\n

\u00a0As for the performances in Bone Lake<\/strong>, I have this to say. They\u2019re all bad. Nechita is like a Barbie doll brought to something resembling life. She walks and talks, but is never convincing as an actual person. Roe would make a better underwear model than an actor. He\u2019s as wooden as Tyriq Withers from Him. Pigossi looks like he\u2019s out of his depth playing a guy questioning his life choices. Diego quit his teaching job to work on his novel while Sage agrees to act as financial support by taking an editor job she doesn\u2019t want. He\u2019s also trying to resist the advances of Cin. I never believed any of it, not for a second. Hasson, looking like a clone of Florence Pugh, comes out on top but only by default. She\u2019s okay as the sexually unsatisfied partner who uses a shower head to get herself off in one scene. It\u2019s when she\u2019s required to display emotion that she falters. I\u2019m not buying her act either.<\/p>\n

\u00a0When I wasn\u2019t irritated by the characters in Bone Lake<\/strong>, I was bored by it. It\u2019s one of those movies where you keep waiting for something interesting to happen and it doesn\u2019t. It\u2019s just these four awful people playing some twisted mind game. It goes on for what feels like an eternity. It\u2019s not until the last ten minutes of so when it finally gets its ass in gear. Morgan delivers a gore-drenched finale in which one antagonist refuses to die. YES! Now this I can get into. It\u2019s too bad getting there isn\u2019t any fun.<\/p>\n

\u00a0There is absolutely nothing positive to say about Bone Lake<\/strong> except that it\u2019s marginally better than Him and we\u2019re talking an ultra-slim margin here. It\u2019s neither suspenseful nor scary. It\u2019s not even interesting. It crawls at a snail\u2019s pace. The score by Roque Banos and Ben Cherney doesn\u2019t amplify the dread; it just grates on the nerves. The one nice thing I can say about this water-logged loser is that the chainsaw I mentioned earlier is put to good use although it pales in comparison to Terrifier 3 (you know the scene I\u2019m talking about!). It\u2019s still bloody cool though. They can keep the rest of Bone Lake<\/strong>. As a horror-thriller, it\u2019s all wet!\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bone Lake (2025)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bleecker Street\/Horror-Thriller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 94 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong bloody violence, grisly images, strong sexual content, graphic nudity, language throughout, some drug use)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Mercedes Bryce Morgan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Joshua Friedlander\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Roque Banos and Ben Cherney\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Nick Matthews\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: October 3, 2025 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Maddie Hasson, Marco Pigossi, Alex Roe, Andra […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Bone-Lake-POSTER.jpg?fit=620%2C775&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13148,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13145\/revisions\/13148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}