[5] After surviving a harrowing night on the lake, only four remain alive and finally crawl onto the shores of Grand Island.

[6] The film received a private theatrical screening for residents of the Balsam Lake community in July 2019,[7] which was also attended by provincial lieutenant governor Elizabeth Dowdeswell.

[11] In 2020, the visual effects team of Adam Jewett, Steve Ramone, Michelle Brennen, Tim Sibley, Aneesh Bhatnagar, Saikrishna Aleti, Peter Giliberti, Alex Basso, Arminus Billones and Marshall Lau won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual Effects at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards.

A December 5, 2019 Globe and Mail review said that Bell had succeeded in "stripping back the mythos of what it means 'to be a man'."

[12] The San Francisco Bay Times said the "scenes in the lake are artfully filmed" and that Bell created a "sense in the open water that alternates between claustrophobia and momentum.