ADAM & EVIL
ADAM & EVIL
2004/15/90m
A.k.a. Halloween Camp 2: Scream If You Wanna Die Faster (UK)
“One bad apple…ripe for revenge.”
Director / Writer: Andrew Van Slee / Cast: Sean Arnfinson, Lynsey Brothers, Brody Harms, Barbara Kottmeier, Erica Cerra, Jodie Graham, Allison Warnyca, Clayton Champagne, Kevin Robson, Jeffrey Fisher, Tiffany Patterson, Terran Orletsky.
Body Count: 13
An unengaging standard-issue Canadian export centring around another bunch of jocks and their girlfriends recently done with high school and therefore celebrating with a camping trip. It transpires that two of the boys have a nasty skeleton in their closet, which could – and therefore does – have something to do with the shady psycho who’s bumping off the group one by one.
Best viewed as a parody of itself – especially given the UK title (see below) – with dialogue limited to sexual intonations for the first half and then shouty arguments once the murders are discovered and the group go gung-ho into hunting the killer before he gets them. I watched this one with a checklist and got a stunning score of 100%:
- Creepy caretaker – YES
- Murders that occurred at camping spot – YES
- Creepy diner / gas station stopover – WHY, YES
- Sex in a tent – YES
- Dimly lit murder scenes to save on gore effects – YES
- Glaringly obvious killer – HELL YES!
Yes, this last point is really irritating. The film, in its original incarnation, is called Adam & Evil. There’s a character called Adam, so by logic… There’s an Eve, an Yvette and an Yvonne… And Maureen and Rachel but they evidently don’t matter and die anyway. So…ladies, which of you is the psycho freakshow whackjob? Given how obvious some of the early comments made by the character it turns out to be you’ll be slapping your own forehead at how lazy they’ve been and also how dumb they think you are! Yes, you! You there with the DVD box – put it back!
OK, the funky UK title. Halloween Camp 1 was the DVD name for Bloody Murder 2. Bloody Murder 1 having already been released as Scream Bloody Murder… Hence, tack on a play on that Geri Halliwell song, a picture from the Halloween Camp 1 DVD box with some pretty teens beneath it and you’re done! Lazy MoFo’s. Maybe if I scream, the producers will die faster?
I reviewed the screener for a video store and as bad as it is, I fell in love with it… idk something about the characters fumbling around for an hour so made for good escapism 😛
Oh, and the girls were really hot. I mean, look at that side boob on the cover! 😀 Btw, the screener dvd I watched had a skull apple on it with a snake slithering through, which of course had nothing to do with the movie.