House on Eden

Sketches that run under a minute have earned Kris Collins more than 50 million TikTok followers as KallMeKris, but horror got to her first, back when she was sneaking films at her friends' houses, everything from 'The Blair Witch Project' to 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'. 'House on Eden' is her first film as a director, and she writes, produces and stars in it too.

The plan for the three vloggers was to shoot an episode in a cemetery. Kris, who is driving, admits halfway there that she's taking them somewhere else: a long-abandoned house she found online at the end of a track called Eden Road, a place the internet has almost nothing on, where a local woman went missing nearly sixty years ago. Celina and Jay, the cameraman, go along grudgingly, and they walk the last stretch because the van can't get through.

The house turns out to be no ruin. It's a large manor in immaculate condition, as though somebody still lived in it. The first night ends badly, and by morning Kris has persuaded the others that this proves something is in the house, so they set up the cameras and start filming their episode. From there 'House on Eden' is less about jump scares than about control, corruption and the way we distort ourselves online, which is how Collins sums it up herself.

The shoot was tiny: seven days and roughly 10,000 dollars. Collins worked from a detailed beat sheet instead of a locked script, so most of the first half is improvised, in the manner of 'Creep'. The house is real: Myers went knocking on doors asking about abandoned properties until she landed on the House of Seven Gables in Tillsonburg, Ontario. The effects run on fishing wire and timing rather than anything digital, and it was shot on Hi8 cameras and eight millimetre film.

RLJE Films and Shudder picked it up in May 2025 and opened it in around 600 American cinemas on 25 July, where it took some 455,000 dollars, before it reached British screens on 26 September. Jason-Christopher Mayer and Carrie Kidd round out the cast, and reviews were largely unconvinced. A YouTube channel leading to a horror feature isn't new ground: Danny and Michael Philippou got there with 'Talk to Me'.

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