House On Eden (2025) - Review

Once again a small group of cocky paranormal investigators stumble upon, and fall victim to, malevolent supernatural activity in House On Eden. The feature film writing-directing-acting debut of online content creator Kris Collins and her friends/co-creators Celina Myers and Jason-Christopher Mayer.

While the found footage horror high-water marks created by Stephen Cognetti's Hell House LLC (2015) or Joseph and Vanessa Winter's Deadstream (2022) are in no danger of being surpassed, much less approached, House On Eden does manage to deliver some jump scares and several moments of sustained tension. But only after taking its sweet time getting to them.

Despite Collins, Myers, and Mayer having plenty of charisma and chemistry as a performative team onscreen, it could not keep me from feeling that the first ten to twenty minutes of House On Eden were far too unfocused and aimless for its own good. There was at least one moment where I found myself thinking, "Can we just get to the frigging house, please?" Maybe there were even two. Maybe.

Once the trio does reach that old dark house nestled deep in the middle of a forested nowhere (in the dead of night, of course) the film finds its footing and commences to work its way through overly familiar tropes that, nonetheless, can still work, if done right. 

Collins and company managed to do enough of those tropes well enough that I walked out of the theater feeling I had not wasted too much time watching this DIY mash-up of The Blair Witch Project and House of the Devil.