Directed By: Mercedes Bryce Morgan
Written By: Joshua Friedlander
Cinematography: Nick Matthews
Editor: Anjoum Agrama
Cast: Alex Roe, Maddie Hassan, Marco Pigossi, Andra Nechita
A couple’s vacation at a secluded estate is upended when they’re forced to share the mansion with a mysterious couple. A dream getaway spirals into a nightmarish maze of sex, lies, and manipulation, triggering a battle for survival.
Bone Lake, this film keeps flirting with what it thinks is naught or what a more mainstream audience or studio exec does. As it seems to keep trying to test the waters of why it thinks it can get away with and is rather tame. Especially after a provacatice graphic opening
Though it could have done without a cliché of having a female of color character be killed in the beginning though at least she’s not first.
Even if not going big for a more erotic thriller horror film it should be somewhat titillating and this plays more like an Adam and Eve couples instructional intimacy tutorial or at least that is how it plays stale.
It’s like it wants to be naughty but is afraid of going too far. Like a beginner at a swingers club (I imagine) this film isn’t even horny it is more of a tease. It psych’s itself out before it even really begins.
There is so much talk not showing. Th main couple don’t seem to act like a long term one. More like they just meet and speak so matter of factory and cerebral in their dialogue that table sitting through a couples therapy session. You desperately want out of, So if looking for physical erotic charms this is not the film for you. since that is all there is until the violence really starts. you feel stuck and waiting for it to begin for some actual action to happen.
This film is missing all the sensuality and sexuality that even a simple movie like the recent sexual thriller DEEP WATER (Starring Ben Affleck) had, though this has more potential rather than seeming to equal a porno fantasy set-up. This one actually has a story that could work as couples therapy and a tale of lust and trust.
Like the antagonists the film tries to come across as cool and something to see, but in reality it’s quite basic and doesn’t offer anything new. it even come across much as standard fare in the gene that offers up see as it’s gimmick but while it peppers it with it. It doesn’t get I too deep winter it is more a garnish. It’s like a film that feels like it was cut up by the MPAA and this is what was left either that or the original script must’ve been really wild and graphic and they just took out what they thought the MPAA or studio wouldn’t like and this is what we’re left with.
By the third act the action finallly starts and the fimmtrally gos into overkill with the violence all of a sudden. Which at least makes up for most of the film playing to safe. As this ends up being the only gratuitous element the film offers. As it will crimp on the erotic, but here it goes full blast.
It’s also where I am guessing most of the film’s budget went also
The film needed to provide more truth in advertising as that is the damaging aspect of the film. As what is promised comes in glimpses but seem somehow constricted and there for plot conveniences and to keep it’s word. Though if choosing a couple to be tempted by, the casting was spot on.
It shows how lust and greed can lead one astray and it’s important to have open communication and that sex can drive you crazy. Then it seems to end like a joke. Maybe it all is and the joke is on us. for this amped up more graphic lifetime TV movie story. That tries to be naughty, but reads more like a manual. It actually has the goods for a 90s thriller, but takes all the fun out of it until the third act.
Grade: C-
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