House on Eden (2025) is an upcoming found-footage horror film directed, written, and starring social media personality Kris Collins, alongside fellow influencers Celina Myers and Jason-Christopher Mayer. The movie follows a trio of paranormal investigators, Kris, Celina, and their cameraman Jay, as they venture into a secluded, abandoned house in the woods after Kris reroutes them from their original destination. The house is linked to an urban legend about a mysterious disappearance and a malevolent, ancient spirit known as Lilith. As the group attempts to document paranormal activity for their online channel, they face increasingly disturbing phenomena, including possession and violence, ultimately leading to a confrontation with cultish elements and the demon Lilith. The film is distributed by RLJE Films and Shudder, and has a runtime of approximately 78 minutes. It is rated R due to content that includes graphic nudity, strong language, throat-slashing violence, and a spiritually twisted worldview. The movie aims to deliver scares reminiscent of "The Blair Witch Project" and "Paranormal Activity" but has received mixed reviews regarding its originality and effectiveness of scares.
The film contains graphic and intense violence, including direct attacks, throat-slashing, and explicit depictions of bloody corpses. This violence is central to the horror narrative and contributes significantly to the R rating.
A spectral woman attacks Kris, knocking her down. Later, this nude woman cuts her own throat and bleeds out over Kris, leading to Kris's possession. Celina punches Jay in the face, causing a bloody nose. The climax involves Kris's clothing being stripped off, and her being rubbed with blood from the corpses of Jay and Celina. The film also includes "quick shots of several seemingly dead people on the ground; their clothes covered in blood".
House on Eden (2025) features graphic nudity, sexually suggestive elements, and references to sexual themes, which are significant factors in its R rating and are explicitly mentioned in parental reviews.
The movie includes "graphic nudity" and depicts "a fully naked older woman with no coverings at all". In a ritualistic scene, Kris's clothing is stripped off by a group of nude cultists around a bonfire. The demon Lilith is described as a "demonic, raven-haired succubus" who "steals the seed of sleeping men". There is also a "close-up shot of Kris' stretch pants-clad backside". Additionally, characters Kris, Celina, and Jay "crudely joke about family incest" while driving.
The film contains frequent and strong profanity, with explicit use of the f-word and other foul language, contributing to its R rating.
Parental reviews specifically highlight "profanely foul dialogue". The dialogue is described as "f-word laden... stupefyingly tedious" and is noted as reportedly improvised. One review explicitly states the film is "rated with a hard R with foul language".
The film's central plot extensively features witchcraft, occult practices, and demonic elements, including possession, ancient spirits, pagan rituals, and a cult. These themes are integral to the horror narrative.
The main antagonist is Lilith, a "malevolent, ancient spirit" described as a "dark spirit who pranks men and targets pregnant women". Lilith is also identified as a "demonic, raven-haired succubus" from Jewish folklore. The movie includes "cultish creepiness", "pagan rituals", and climaxes with a "coven surrounding a roaring bonfire". Kris becomes "possessed by Lilith and welcomed into her cult", and Celina also displays "signs of possession". Characters utilize devices such as an "Alice Box" and a "cat ball" to communicate with spirits.
As a found-footage horror film, "House on Eden (2025)" delivers frequent jump scares, suspenseful sequences, disturbing imagery, and a pervasive sense of dread, making it intensely frightening.
The film is described as "packed with Blair Witch-like thump-in-the-night stuff" and features "nightmarish and, at times, surrealist imagery". Reviewers note an "abundant" number of jump scares, with the first occurring "prior to the one-minute mark". Kris is "knocked down by an unseen force", and later, Celina sleepwalks and "briefly shows signs of possession". Kris is also "isolated and targeted by the supernatural entities multiple times". A scene depicts a possessed Celina with a "nasty wound on her arm with surprise gore and blank, milky-white eyes". The ending involves Kris joining a group of "nude cultists gathered around a massive bonfire" after being possessed.
The film explicitly features anti-Christian themes by presenting a "spiritually twisted worldview" that distorts biblical narratives through the demonic figure of Lilith, along with pagan rituals and cultic practices that contradict Christian beliefs.
The movie features a "spiritually twisted worldview" and explicitly "borrows from a biblical story and badly distorts it". The central demonic entity is Lilith, described in Jewish folklore as potentially Adam's first wife before Eve, who becomes a "demonic, raven-haired succubus". The plot involves Kris becoming "possessed by Lilith and welcomed into her cult", and the film directly ties in "witchcraft" and "pagan rituals". The climax shows Kris joining a "coven surrounding a roaring bonfire".
The movie portrays significant disrespect and rebellion among the main characters, particularly through Kris's disregard for her friends' wishes and her increasingly hostile and manipulative behavior.
Kris "upsets everyone when she reveals she has not been driving them to the cemetery Celina researched, but to a different haunted location". The group experiences a "falling out because Kris has become hard to work with". Celina and Jay are "displeased she did not consult them", leading to arguments and Jay eventually leaving the house and vanishing after a disagreement. Celina also "subtly accuses Jay of having an unprofessional crush on Kris". The film also includes characters making "crudely joke about family incest".
No explicit LGBTQ+ characters, themes, or plotlines were identified in the available information for "House on Eden (2025)" through comprehensive and targeted searches. An implied heterosexual crush between the characters Jay and Kris is noted, but no queer representation was found.
The narrative focuses on the heterosexual dynamics of the main trio, with Jay expressing an "unprofessional crush on Kris". Multiple explicit searches for "House on Eden (2025)" combined with LGBTQ-related keywords (lgbtq, gay, lesbian, transgender, queer representation, LGBTQ characters) and searches for the director's statements yielded no results indicating such content within the movie.
No explicit substance use, such as illegal drugs, excessive alcohol consumption, or smoking, is reported as a significant element within the film's plot or character actions in the available reviews and plot summaries.
While some crude jokes are mentioned, such as "crudely joke about family incest", these are not linked to substance use. Detailed plot summaries and parental guidance reviews do not indicate any instances of characters engaging in or being affected by drug or alcohol use.
17 and older. This recommendation is based on the movie's R rating, which is justified by its explicit content including graphic nudity, severe violence, strong profanity, and significant occult and demonic themes. The intense horror elements, disturbing imagery, and mature subject matter are unsuitable for younger viewers.
The film's found-footage style, while aiming for authenticity, has been criticized for shaky camera work that may induce motion sickness in some viewers. The narrative is largely driven by social media personalities, which blurs the lines between their online personas and the fictional characters. There are no confirmed differences across theatrical, extended, or director's cuts, or significant content shifts across sequels as this is a debut film.
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