Bone Lake on Netflix: 2025’s ultimate date-night horror movie is finally streaming

Bone Lake is a solid contender for your next movie night at home, and it's finally on streaming

2025 was a big year for horror movies. Between Weapons, Sinners, and 28 Years Later, there were plenty of reasons to pack into a crowded theater and experience a good scare among friends and strangers. But while those movies all dominated the box office, there’s another horror movie that flew under the radar but deserves your attention now that it’s streaming on Netflix.

Bleeker Street’s erotic horror thriller Bone Lake is a solid contender for your next movie night at home. The film centers on the titular lakeside estate with a… seductive name and the couple heading there for a romantic getaway. However, when they’re suddenly forced to share their rental with a sexy and mysterious pair of strangers, this dreamy escape suddenly turns into a creepy nightmare filled with sex, lies, and manipulation.

While Bone Lake’s trailer promised a sexy thriller, the reality is far less serious (imagine a tongue-in-cheek version of James McAvoy’s 2024 horror movie Speak No Evil, itself a remake of an even darker Danish thriller). But it’s Bone Lake’s uncanny mix of horror and comedy that makes it such a great viewing with friends and couples on a random Friday with some pizza, and that’s why I’m recommending this schlocky flick, which is now streaming on Netflix.

Diego (Marco Pigossi) and Sage’s (Maddie Hasson) relationship is pushed to its breaking point when their romantic weekend at Bone Lake is interrupted by the awkward intrusion of another couple: Will (Alex Roe) and Cin (Andra Nechita). The interlopers quickly reveal themselves to be up to something far more sinister, as Will and Cin begin a predatory agenda, daring Diego and Sage to cheat on one another. Little do they know, cheating has serious consequences at Bone Lake. If Diego and Sage, Will and Cin will declare their own relationship superior and then kill the other couple as punishment. It’s a twisted game where trust isn’t just tested, it’s lethal.

Some of the greatest ice-breaker questions usually start with “what would you do if…?” and Bone Lake invites a bevy of ice-breaker prompts that beg for an answer. I won’t spoil them here, but the insecurities in Diego and Sage’s relationship begin to surface because of the mind games. Masculinity gets threatened, and lust is used as a tactic. It will leave you wondering how you’d make out in a similar situation — and that’s all before we get to the final reveal, so dumb it shifts the movie into pure comedy territory.

Bone Lake is a campy good time, but it has a heart, too. You want to see the couple win, not only to survive this game, but to salvage their relationship (or if for nothing else, to thwart the gross-ass villains). But beyond the metaphors for miscommunication among couples that result in their own kinds of horror, there's a bloody horror flick that knows when to be campy and invites itself into conversation starters. Plus, when the brisk 95-minute runtime comes to an end, the pizza is gone, and the libations are empty, director Mercedes Bryce Morgan told Polygon a lot of interesting things about some of the sex scenes and some spoilery stuff about its somewhat ambiguous ending that you’ll want to read for yourself.