Finding your short-term house rental double-booked proved a recipe for terror in Zach Cregger’s “Barbarian.” Faced with the same issue, the protagonists in Mercedes Bryce Morgan ’s “ Bone Lake ” run a wider range of emotions — including annoyance, camaraderie, lust and suspicion — before working their way to terror again. While not perfect, the psychological thriller is cleverly conceived and confidently executed enough to make for a fun ride, one that eventually takes the full plunge into bloody black comedy terrain.

Morgan’s prior features “Fixation” and “Spoonful of Sugar” were both horror-adjacent conceits whose attempts to get inside the minds of unstable heroines ultimately seemed more stylishly intriguing than satisfying. Some crazy people also turn out to be involved this time

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