“Could somebody do something now?”

Story: Three ghost hunter vloggers – Kris, Celina and Jay – decide to scrap their planned cemetery visit, and hit up a supposedly haunted house nobody else has heard of. Hilarity ensues. Okay fine. Boredom ensues. For them, and for us.

Scares: Nope. This territory is too well tread for any creeping dread.
Splat Factor: Barely a drip, and that’s all off camera, shot in black and white.

Subgenre: Found This At A Haunted Place Films
Year Released: 2025
Remake, Sequel or OG (Original Ghoul)?: Original, but like a ton of other “people investigate something nobody with a functioning brain cell would investigate” films.


Trick or Treat?: Written, directed and starring Kris Collins, Eden definitely feels like her first effort. It’s an unfocused mix of The Blair Witch Project and The Witch with nothing original to say. This feels like a student film that stumbled onto a streaming release.

While this film has very little to recommend it, Collins does do some interesting things with these “homages” in the third act, blending two seemingly disparate ideas together, which could have been interesting in more capable hands. If she’s got more concepts like this, I hope she keeps honing her craft.

Maybe focusing on short films would be better for her, as the final twenty minutes of Eden hold 99% of the “horror” and “suspense”. The entire hour and eighteen minute run time feels twice as long, thanks to an uninspired screenplay and plot points that not only drag, but have been lifted wholesale from better films. Collins started out as a vlogger, which helps her create believable (if sadly underdrawn) characters here. But her experience in short form content is all too apparent, with Eden‘s being hurry up and wait, until the usual found footage climax of running around and screaming.

I do have to give props to Eden for showing exactly how boring and nonsensical a lot of ghost hunter/vlogger work actually is. And when the spirits start to interact with the characters, I like the sly, shady way they do it. Again, Collins has a cinematic voice that could become something special in future. But right now? Eden brings nothing new or interesting to the subgenre. The house itself is freaking beautiful though. So there’s that.

Score: 2 out of 5 pumpkins. One for the beautiful house. One pity star for the other two performers who were roped into this clunker.