Film Title: House on Eden
Cast: Celina Myers, Kris Collins, James
Director: Kris Collins
Writer: Kris Collins
Distribution: Shudder and RLJE snapped this film up / Production: Spooky AF Productions collective
Release Date: October 1, 2025
Review by: Mother of Movies
Spoiler Warning
This review discusses scenes, stylistic choices, and key moments from House on Eden. While the ending is not fully revealed, details may hint at narrative turns.
Indie Horror with Influencers Meets Found Footage Fatigue
If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if TikTok personalities swapped ring lights for shaky handheld cameras, House on Eden answers that question, though not in the way you might hope. Celina Myers, Kris Collins, and James play themselves, wandering toward the titular House on Eden Road on what’s billed as a “ghost hunting journey.”
The film rides on the novelty of watching social media stars act within the found footage genre. Unfortunately, it quickly exposes the genre’s Achilles heel: realism without intentional cinematography can feel less like vérité grit and more like you accidentally opened your phone camera during a walk in the woods.
The First Half: Banter, Blunders, and Bushland
There’s some charm in watching Celina lean into her signature quirks, cactus jokes, and pop-up toilet humour, but these moments are drowned out by loosely scripted chatter. Found footage thrives on tension, yet scenes often detour into conversations irrelevant to the ghost hunt.
The trio’s first major misstep? Filming filler instead of fear. Shots are dominated by ground views, treetops, and out-of-focus frames, with little mise-en-scène to anchor the mood. Kris mentions a girl missing for 60 years but offers few researched details, undercutting the supposed urgency.
The Midpoint: When Influencer Confidence Kicks In
Just past halfway, House on Eden shifts gears. The camera work improves, ghost hunting equipment appears, and the group’s presence feels more intentional. An AM/FM frequency box delivers chillingly simple words, “Here” and “Corner”, hinting at spirit communication. This section proves they can create atmosphere when they abandon influencer shtick for cinematic pacing. Sadly, it also highlights how much earlier footage could have benefited from similar blocking and framing awareness.
The Final Act: Why Found Footage Needs More Than Shaky Cameras
The last third leans heavily into horror tropes: a pregnant reveal, spectral women in nightgowns, bathtub disorientation, bloody throat effects, and ritualistic fires. Gore FX and sound design are solid, the throat slit scene is unsettling without being gratuitous, but narrative cohesion evaporates.
Possession sequences unfold without clear cause-and-effect, and ghost antics arrive at the exact moment tension should peak, but instead flatten. The final fade into the fire should feel haunting; instead, it’s a familiar beat lifted from other found footage entries (The Sacrament, Grave Encounters, Hell House LLC), without fresh thematic layering.
Verdict: A Passion Project Without a Fear Engine
There’s an undeniable enthusiasm here, perhaps three horror fans making a movie because they love the genre. That’s admirable. But passion alone can’t replace the deliberate craft found footage demands. Without more focused cinematography and narrative threading, House on Eden risks becoming just another entry in the “influencer horror” subgenre that audiences forget.
House on Eden is rated:
2.0 TikTok horror film filters can’t hide shaky horror out of 5
Similar Films to House on Eden
Hell House LLC (2015) – Found footage influencer horror with strong narrative cohesion.
Grave Encounters (2011) – Paranormal investigation gone wrong.
The Sacrament (2013) – Cult-driven found footage horror.
Deadstream (2022) – Influencer social media horror movie done with comedic bite.Looking for more found footage? Mother of Movies has plenty: Add these to your watch list Fake Blood / Pheonix Forgotten / They’re Watching.
Filmmaker/Production Notes
Spooky AF Productions appears to be a self-made collective rather than a traditional studio. The cast’s influencer fame is their main draw, Myers from comedic TikTok sketches, Collins from her “child talking to mom” persona, but translating internet charisma into cinematic storytelling is a challenge. RJLE Films and Shudder snapped up the found footage influencer horror movie and delivered it to fans for Halloween. Enjoy.
Ending of House on Eden Explained – Click Here if you love a Spoiler
Ending of House on Eden Explained, Fire, Possession, and the Point of No Return
The final act of House on Eden pushes Kris, Celina, and James into familiar found footage territory, abandoned houses, spectral figures, and ritualistic fires, but its meaning is left intentionally opaque.
Kris’s pregnancy reveal feels like a red herring, a narrative misdirection rather than a true plot driver. The wheelchair-bound woman in a nightgown who congratulates her could be interpreted as a ghostly echo, a past victim or former resident tied to the house’s curse.
The possession beat, Kris waking in an attic with a naked woman slitting her throat, Celina in a rocking chair compulsively scratching, read as symbolic “handoffs” of agency to whatever entity rules the house. The closing scene, with Kris disrobing and walking into the fire, is a ritualistic sacrifice motif in The Wicker Man and The Sacrament: the character ceases to be a protagonist and becomes part of the antagonist’s mythology.
Thematically, it suggests House on Eden isn’t about ghost hunting at all; it’s about influencer hubris. The cameras, the gear, the bravado, none of it matters when you’re in a place that doesn’t care about your audience. The ending strips them of their curated identities, leaving only raw fear and submission to an unseen, ancient system.
House on Eden
Director: Kris Collins
Date Created: 2025-10-01 12:19
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