A group of friends, to celebrate the long-awaited end of school, decide to go camping to spend a weekend filled with fun, drunkenness, and sex. But among them is the young Adam, who is tormented by the constant memory of having accidentally caused a terrible fire years earlier, in which an entire family died. Meanwhile, a dangerous masked killer begins to roam, ready to massacre all the boys.
Useless: this is the most fitting adjective to attribute to this "Adam & Evil" which turns out to be a bland Canadian teen horror (one of those born solely and exclusively following the success of "Scream") from 2004.
Once again, the film distributor Enrico Pinocci (which should already give the more experienced viewer an idea of the kind of movie it is) thought to distribute the film in our country, this time, however, finding association with the more well-known distribution brand Eagle, which strangely also offered it a small theatrical release.
The film, as previously announced, is the emblem of uselessness because everything, from the largest to the smallest detail, manages to emit an annoying sense of déjà vu capable of plunging the entire work into total banality. But beyond being a substantially useless and well-known film, because immersed in a sea of clichés, it is also particularly ugly due to many factors treated and analyzed with superficiality and laziness.
If the basic plot already turns out to be meager and uninteresting, we have, to complete the work, an absolutely disastrous screenplay (written by Andrew Van Slee, the same who will handle the direction): many holes scattered here and there, a total lack of rhythm, boring sequences carried forward by banal and approximate dialogues, the characters are too many and absolutely lacking in personality (starting with the protagonist Adam who gives the title to the film)... stuff to envy the charisma and psychological delineations of the many campers appeared in any "Friday the 13th"! The identity of the killer is intuitive just a few minutes into the film and his motive is as pathetic as it could be imagined, not to mention the approximate and climactic-free ending.
It would be nice and gratifying to be able to say that the flaws end here, but saying that would be lying because we find other, and huge, problems including a squalid direction and a photography so clear and glossy as to be compared to that of an amateur communion film.
This type of film generally tends to at least work on the aesthetics of the killer to make him appear disturbing or, in any case, as a threatening figure; "Adam & Evil" fails even in this: the killer's look, which will always be shown little, is too anonymous to the point of being extremely ridiculous in the end thanks to the use of a mask (one of those mild masks purchasable in any supermarket) of decidedly disproportionate dimensions.
There is nothing, therefore, in this film that works sufficiently; the only thing left to hope for is the presence of some bloody murder at the right point, but nothing doing, even the gore/splatter department is totally absent and the murders, in addition to being left almost always to a bad out-of-field, weigh on a total lack of imagination (just think that the killer, as a weapon of death, uses a crossbow first then a squalid rifle).
In conclusion "Adam & Evil" is a useless film, incapable of arousing interest and ugly, in which the only thought that pervades the viewer's mind at the end of the viewing is that of having absolutely wasted an hour and twenty minutes of their life.
To be avoided.
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