House on Eden

I don't understand why people feel the need to repeat the work of others 25 years later and call themselves a writer and a director? It's 2025, it's clearly obvious Kris Collins stumbled upon the Blair Witch Project and decided to put together some lame trash of her own. There's is nothing original here. It's a complete rip off from other found footage style movies, think also, REC or the American version Quarantine. Everything is overacted and unbelievable. The movie shots are abysmal. This isn't 90s and shooting everything with 480i resolution cameras is a cheap way out for a lack of vision in horror story telling. Trying to create tension with out of focus cameras and cheap thudding sounds and a obscure backstory into religion is overplayed. How did this even get greenlit for the big screen is beyond me. I was so happy the movie was short.

Ugh, when the movie started and it dawned on me that this was a 'found garbage' type of movie, I have to admit that my expectations went from slim to none. Sure, I had never even heard about "House on Eden" prior to sitting down to watching it. And had I known that it was a 'found garbage' subgenre of horror movie, I would not even have picked it up. I absolutely loathe this subgenre of horror.

Movies that are written by, directed by and starring the one and same person tends to be questionable affairs. And "House on Eden" was one such movie, and to top it off, it was also a 'found garbage' movie. So yeah, things were definitely not stacked in favor of the movie.

Writer Kris Collins, whom also directed the movie and starred in the movie, put together a pretty straightforward script and storyline. It was somewhat on the generic and stale side, though.

Needless to say that I was, of course, not familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list. The acting performances in the movie were actually fair.

The movie's cover was actually the best thing about the ordeal, and it over-sold the movie by a landslide.

There are far better horror movies out there, even if you enjoy these pointless 'found garbage' type of movies.

My rating of writer and director Kris Collins's 2025 movie "House on Eden" lands on a generous two out of ten stars.

Pleasantly surprised. I knew the actors were content creators, but I'd only seen short clips here and there. I liked Kris in the Smosh Reddit episode, so I decided to check out the movie. The acting felt really natural, and I felt like I was along for the ride with 3 friends.

There were three solid jump scares that actually got me good but I do wish we got more background on the setting lore. My biggest issue was the overuse of handheld camera shots at the beginning. The constant motion started to give me a headache so I had to close my eyes.

Still, for a first-time writer and director, this was a fun and impressive debut. You can tell she has some interesting ideas.

It's really not terrible, and something like this has potential. I just wish we got to see/learn more of the interesting parts, and less Kris being rude to everyone. The movie really seemed like it was 3/4 wandering in the woods and the other 1/4 was the story. This honestly left me with more questions than interest.. Just a little more story and I would have been pleasantly surprised but imo it fell flat. Not a failure though, the vfx were cool, I like the concept of found footage, Celina was properly spooky and I'm glad they made a film(maybe it was just over hyped for me)

It's definitely not "bad" bad, but it's not good either.

As several have said it had potential (that it did not reach) and feels like someone's high school project.

I really like found footage and this one borrows a bit too heavily from Blair Witch and Hell House IV in the settings and character interactions. The severely shaky cam in parts is a big distraction.

If you're a fan of these folks from their other things, perhaps you would enjoy this more. I don't follow them at all so maybe some of it was missing for me.

I gather it was filmed in a week on a small budget and I think one has to appreciate that.

Even though I found the end lacking, still a better finish than The Substance.