Adam & Evil (2004) User Reviews

Not as bad bad as I expected but the title gives the twist away.

[poolandrews · 4/10 · 22 February 2010]

Adam & Evil starts as a group of high school friends intend to celebrate graduation by driving to some old camp & spending the night there, while stopped off at a bar the local Sheriff Earl (Jodie Graham) & his wife Maureen (Alison Warnyca) warn them that the camp they are going to was once the site of grisly murders but they should be OK anyway. Not put off by the reputation of the camp the friends set their tents up & start partying, however someone intends to crash the party & kill all the guests as Seth (Kevin Robson) has his throat slit. When his body is found the friends panic & try to find help but are unsure of who to trust as the mysterious killer continues to bump them off one by one...

Known under the title Halloween Camp 2: Scream If You Wanna Die Faster here in the UK this Canadian production was written, produced & directed by Andrew Van Slee & one has to say that as far as low budget teen slashers go Adam & Evil really isn't that bad, it sure ain't no masterpiece but but it was a lot better than I had expected. Adam & Evil most resembles a Friday the 13th (1980) or The Burning (1981) rip-off with teens being killed in & around a camp, the identity of the killer is kept a mystery until the end when there's a twist & the killer is revealed although one has to say the title sort of gives away who it is. The film doesn't feel too long, the character's are slightly better than usual for this type of film, there are a couple of OK kills & the basic who did it murder mystery while not groundbreaking will probably keep you watching & guessing until the end I suppose. Of course Adam & Evil is far from perfect, it's very unoriginal & the basic idea has been done to death & if the motive for the killer was revenge why did they kill the woman at the diner, the Sheriff & Maureen none of who had nothing to do with what happened previously? I expected a lot worse to be honest & maybe that's why I am being generous here but I think horror & slasher fans might find something to like here, don't expect a masterpiece & I am sure that Adam & Evil will pass 90 odd minutes for you harmlessly enough.

The kills are alright & at least there's a bit of variety between them, in a moment that looks like it could have come straight from The Burning a guy has his throat slit with a pair of garden shears, a couple are impaled by the neck when they have an arrow shot through them, someone is stabbed in the stomach with an axe, there's another slit throat, another arrow death & some more blood splatter along the way. There's a little sex & nudity but not much. The film looks pretty good actually although there's not much tension or build up to the kills & they do tend to come & go a bit suddenly.

Apparently filmed in Los Angeles & Vancouver in Canada according to the IMDb which I find hard to believe, why would the film need to be shot in those two locations? The acting isn't great as expected but the cat try & they are attractive enough to take your mind off their acting abilities.

Adam & Evil is a moderately effective teen slasher, sure there are loads out there already & this is far from the best but likewise it's far from the worst. I thought it was alright, nothing more nothing & less really.

Lame Unimaginative Rip-Off of Friday the 13th

[czarnobog · 2/10 · 16 June 2006]

Wow. Another clunker from Canadian "auteur" Andrew Van Slee. At least this one is somewhat watchable, unlike his earlier epic "Totally Blonde."

The scariest thing about this entire movie is the teeth of the actors. Instead of rehearsing, the director must have thrown a teeth-whitening party. Almost every character has teeth that look like chiclets which had been soaking in bleach for a week.

The plot line follows that of "Fiday the 13th" -- the only difference, and it's huge, is that instead of watching the kids die one by one in imaginative efx sequences, all of the violence takes place off-camera. A shadowy murderer appears, the victim reacts, and we see the bloody aftermath. The entire efx budget seems to have been spent on a bucket of fake blood and a number 4 paint brush.

Most of the actors are good, but a few are grade A hambones. The characters are entirely generic. In fact, none of the human characters are as interesting as the farm tools used by the killer. And we don't get to see those farm tools act... just the aftermath.

The dialog is atrocious. The opening character set-up is a long, labored discourse which makes it clear to anyone who didn't already know that teenage boys like sex. They also call each other "dude" a lot. It seems dated, but hey, maybe Canada's teens are on some kind of culture curve. Another ten years and they'll be getting into hiphop.

There's a big surprise ending which I won't reveal. Anyone who makes it through this piece of dreck, even on fast-forward, deserves the miniscule thrill of the revelation.

The ending sets up a sequel, apparently intending to rip off "Halloween" in the next installment, since they blatantly ripped off the theme music to set it up.

If you're tempted by the premise, skip this turkey and rent the original "Friday the 13th" instead. Even if you've seen it fifty times it'll still be more exciting.

Here we go again with another bottom draw product.

[lost-in-limbo · 2/10 · 8 June 2006]

A group of teens head out on a camping trip to celebrate their high school graduation, but their party mood is short lived when they discover that a masked killer is hunting them down one by one. Now just who is this killer? Is it the two shady fellas who followed them, the park's grounds keeper, the sheriff or is it his unfaithful wife. But there's one thing that's haunting Adam's mind and that's the killer knows that of his terrible secret involving accidental death of a family.

Um, I don't know what to really make of this travesty of a hack job. But I can tell you it's simply textbook stuff all round that's merely plain ( err, but quite a dud more often) for what it is. Ugh, really I think I am being quite generous overall on this particular amateurish indie horror effort. What takes form here is a very typical backwoods survival slasher with just too much talk and innuendo and far too little action and gratuitous nudity. Which can be quite sad for the lack of skin, since there is some nice eye candy on show. It just seems to promise more than it actually delivers, by teasing us with such tame excuses for horror.

You can say that the film is just plain scary for all the wrong reasons with such banal and cringe-worthy dialogues. Real deflated acting from a young cast of stock characters who are either constantly horny, lazing about and when the trouble kicks in, its all about the clueless YELLING(!) and spiting out a good quota of badass drivel like you always do in these situations. The story and atmosphere tries for that 80s slasher feel by going for a big body count, but it totally misses out on the style with its lack of brutality and gory edge. Simply the deaths are quite sudden and reasonably clumsy with some brisk editing. There's a little bit of nudity, but it's rather a quick topless scene from the Allison Warnyca as the Sheriff's wife. She's probably the most fun that the film offers! But what made me grit my teeth was that the opening 30 minutes was incredibly boring with its rambling teens toying around in many filler scenes that I couldn't believe I still had an hour to go. It feels like it takes too long before the real fun begins and when it does, it gets a tad better (well, maybe more like tweeny weeny bit). From the get-go you realise the cliché filled plot is a convolutely rushed project that's completely bled dry of ideas. While, the back-story surrounding this slasher is just very cheesy to believe. But hold on it was the film's revelation that left me stone-cold because of the ridiculous motive and it goes over-the-top in its daftness. You can probably guess the killer just before the revelation with all the hints that crop up, but it's quite unsatisfying and doesn't make a whole lot of sense when you think about it. The usual red herrings feature quite heavily with some pointless characters who are just there for that stupid factor than really adding anything of real importance.

The direction isn't awful but it's just generally uninspired. What was far from uninspiring was the downright noisy and really loud rock soundtrack and overstated score that at times over powers certain scenes. There are moments when it suddenly goes nuts when the film would break into a montage with a supporting rock song. Damn, that did get annoying. The camera-work is pretty standard and quite relentless when it has to be, but when it focuses on the killer we mostly see the lower half of the body. It's looks like it was shot on digital too. The setting is that of campsite by a lake in some brooding woodlands. It does get atmospheric in spots, which is kind of good since there's no suspense to be found.

Well, what's there left to say; it just takes a very big slice out of the slasher market without adding anything special of its own.

Absolutely Horrible, Wretched

[rwduke · 1/10 · 22 September 2004]

There are not enough bad adjectives in the dictionary to describe this movie. The acting is a joke. Not one actor in this entire movie has talent. Not moderate nor slight talent. NO talent. The dialog is so laughable.

"I'm going to slice you like a turkey" says one of the victims to the killer. "I don't scare easy and I'm pi$$ed" says another.

The girls run around like descendants of Rambo, claiming they are going to kick some a$$. Oh yeah, that's real scary, watching chicks act like they have been shot up with a gallon of testosterone. Why do women have to try and act like men?

The only scary in the this movie is the acting, the direction, and the fact that it was ever made. This movie is an embarrassment to the horror genre.

Avoid at all costs!

crap, pure crap

[movieman_kev · 1/10 · 19 August 2005]

A guy with a shady past goes on a "graduation" trip with his friends. There's a killer in the woods and picks them off one by one and blah blah blah. Surprisingly minimal amount of gore, NO suspense (hint to whoever came up with the spoiler heavy play on words title, you stink!!), and the film's 90 minute running time is endlessly crammed with unneeded filler. The acting is horrible, the end reveal that you know is coming STILL doesn't make a lick of sense when it finally happens. In conclusion, my eyes have seen a glimpse of hell, thy name is "Adam and Evil"

Eye Candy: Allison Warnyca as the sheriff's wife gets topless

My Grade: F

Where i saw it: Starz on Demand (available till September 15th, 2005)

Couldn't purposely be worse then this "film"

[i_am_the_beck · 1/10 · 7 March 2005]

My wife and I occasionally like to find the worst films we can and enjoy them in a sort of MST3K sort of way. We came across this #$&! and knew it stunk of "worst film ever" potential simply from the description. Oh my...what a treat of awful "filmmaking". We debated whether someone could set out with the intent of making a "film" worse then this one and succeed. We came to the conclusion that it would be incredibly tough, but possible. Though after factoring in this "film's" collection of some of the least talented "actors" (although I'm still convinced they were pulled directly from a local High School Theatre 101 class), we decided that a worse film script might be possible...but it would be impossible to purposely find a worse cast. I don't care how absurd you want to get...cast a film entirely with drunks off the street, chimps, or computer driven AI with the sort of "Stephen Hawking" speech...it still wouldn't be as devoid of talent, as badly delivered, or as lacking of any semblance of emotion as this cast managed to do.

An awful...bloody awful film that is hilarious in it's awfulness.

Brody Harms is now in the running for the "worst actor to ever be put on film" (or video in this case as I believe it went straight to) award. I'm talking hideousness in epic proportions...

An apple shaped skull – What more did I need to know?

[Dr. Gore · 1 May 2005]

*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*

I bought this video for three bucks. There's a bloody skull, (in the shape of an apple with a stem on top), with a snake crawling through an eye socket on the video box cover. I was kind of expecting to see some sort of biblical horror flick. I don't bother reading the back of video boxes anymore. I find that the back of the box is usually just as misleading as the front. Although if I had taken the time to read it, I would have realized that this is just another low budget teen slasher movie. So a bunch of teens head to the lake to party down. There's a mad killer hanging out with them. Soon the teens will meet their fate as they bicker and argue about the best way to survive.

Slasher movies are about the slasher, not the victims. The successful slasher flicks, (Friday the 13th, Halloween, etc.), realize that the victims are nothing more than vessels for future blood and guts spilling. The star of the show is the crazed killer. "Adam and Evil" makes the fatal mistake of assuming that we actually care about these people. A lot of the movie is shot like an annoying teen flick with musical montage segments of the gang having fun. The killer is kept a mystery throughout the movie and is only revealed in the last ten minutes. When the killer is finally revealed, it's a huge letdown. "Adam and Evil" is pretty pointless with lots of arguing teen scenes and not enough mad killer scenes. Most of the girls were hot, especially the "brainy" girl, and we do get a brief topless scene but it's not enough to save this one. It can be avoided.

The Perfect Cheesy Movie

[claudio_carvalho · 3/10 · 3 April 2007]

After their high-school graduation, eight friends decide to celebrate in a campground in Lake Nede with booze and sex. They get lost and stop in a bar to ask for directions. One of the boys is seduced by the slut wife of the local sheriff, while the group is chased by two bad elements from their school. Once in the lake, one by one is killed by a murderer, and the survivors guess who might be the criminal.

"Adam & Evil" is the perfect cheesy movie: the silly and flawed screenplay seems to be written by a moron, so stupid it is with laughable dialogs and situations; the shameful direction is inexistent; the unknown ham actors and actresses show a total lack of talent at least in this movie. The story has lots of holes and clichés, and it is funny to see, for example, the car fully loaded with eight persons, and I guess where all of the camping stuff was transported. When the group finds that there are three dead friends, they split to facilitate the work of the killer. The twist disclosing the criminal is one of the most terrible and ridiculous that I have ever seen. I could spend the whole night writing flaws in this flick, but I believe that this sample is enough to show how bad this film is. My vote is three.

Title (Brazil): "Segredos Mortais" ("Deadly Secrets")

at the end of the day, it's just another teen slasher film

[adamoconnell · 5/10 · 31 January 2010]

it's okay. nothing special, we hardly see the killer until the end for five seconds, the nudity is not very memorable, the deaths aren't very creative (which slasher killer uses a gun?)

the twist ending is kinda stupid. the gore is minimal, the sex scene didn't thrill me, the kids aren't likable, accept for one, don't know his name, the scenes about them, trying to develop them are boring, the dialog is just awful overall, if you wanna see people who you know are trying to act because believe that this is a good slasher film, go for it, but stay the hell away if you're looking for the next Graduation Day

Bad apple

[kosmasp · 5/10 · 26 May 2023]

No pun intended - actually no apple at all in this one. But since the title itself is a pun, I just had to go there ... to the beginning sort of. If you are a fan of slasher movies you may not even care ... though the movie does try to please you, with kills, nudity and a story that has some twists (maybe even surprising ones for you?) ... but if you feel this is the worst horror movie you've seen: congratulations! I have seen way worse and it seems you have avoided those.

All kidding aside, there are some saving graces - like the fact the actors can act .. even if it does not seem necessary most of the time. Also seeing Erica Cerra, whom you may know from other stuff is quite a nice touch ... though to end on a pun, don't expect to touch her ... not that she is untouchable ... or is she? I'll end it here - the silliness can be seen in the movie too .. maybe not as much "fun"

Hey this movie wasn't that bad

[pkzeewiz · 4/10 · 5 May 2010]

Some teens go camping out in the woods and die off 1 at a time (sometimes 2 at a time) and you have several obvious suspects. Evetually the cops are involved and even the cops can't save these kids from being slashed to death...who is the real killer...watch and see..

I love slasher movies and it's a genre thats done to death (no pun intended) but I still enjoy them, and they each bring something new to the table with methods of killing, motives for killing and such...Not once here do u see the killer until the end, so no cheesy mask required.

I thought it was OK. The acting was horrible except for a couple people who did good, the dialog was rather stupid and it had flaws from the get go. The directing wasn't extremely bad, it was okay for a low budget b-film.

I thought Adam (Sean Arnfinson) and the girl playing Yvonne did a really good job, but most of the others did bad and overacted way too much at times.

I give it 4/10 stars for being a nice addition to the slasher family.

good movie for a first time flick with poor editing

[ronaldachampagne · 8/10 · 27 November 2009]

Actors were good considering what they had to work with.If you are going to write disparaging remarks,they should be directed at the editor.They all had to start somewhere.Good movie.James Clayton did an excellent job trying to make something out of the script.I've seen his work in other movies that were written far better and the editor didn't butcher the work.He has a lot of talent.I'll bet money that if he ever gets involved with a dynamic script that allows him to show what he can do,he will be a force to be reckoned with.Don't forget,this is Canada.It is a heck of a struggle just to get started and then even harder to find a project that will do a good actor justice.

A mediocre effort but not without its good

[BobbyHazardX · 6/10 · 3 February 2022]

Adam & Evil is a slasher from 2004, from the post Scream days which I'd consider the second golden age of the slasher movie, after the 80s (the first). I've seen it a quite a few times since it was released, and there's a quality to it that gets me to rewatch it once in a while. It's not great in a lot of ways but I'm forgiven of that in slasher movies, it kinda adds to the charm actually. Story wise it's sorta along the lines of Moon Stalker from 1989 and Madman from 1981. There's also a bit of The Burning, also from 1981, when you find out the movies backstory.

The cast are all relatively green but there's some likeable characters including a shady groundskeeper and the wife of a police officer. The killer's identity is not too obvious. Yeah the title, but I don't think most people would over think the title's name. Barbara Kottmeier plays the role of Evelyn with glee. You can sense she enjoyed playing the killer. She did a good job. Kevin Robson (Seth) is another standout. He feels developed a bit more at the start so it's sorta surprising when he's the first one to go. He's also the virgin of the group, but I thought he was by far the hottest guy there personally. He, Barbara Kottmeier, and Brody Harms had the most screen presence I'd say.

There's not a lot of suspense, but the woods set a mood. It's not to the heights of Just Before Dawn (one of the best woods set slashers ever made) but they set a good ambience.

Adam & Evil is probably for hardcore slasher enthusiasts only, but I enjoy it, and think there's things to like about it.

This movie is so bad it will give you acid reflux disease!

[Horrorible_Horror_Films · 2/10 · 28 February 2006]

Exceptionally bad! OF course you should expect nothing less from the likes Andrew Van Slee. How the hell does that man make a living making crap? Apparently not just movies, but songs too, he has the midas touch - everything he touches is crap! Big smelling pile of steaming crap! This movie sucks so much, here's what really bad: 1) The sets are pathetic! Apparently they were so small, that in EVERY scene the actors had to walk as s l o w as possible in order to stay on set. And they were so fake and bad, like when there in the woods, yet there on sand? 2) The acting is sooo freaking bad, the cast is deplorable, where did they get these people? In one scene the guy is TRYING to cry and emote, it is terrible! This is the poorest casting EVER! 3) The title had NOTHING to do with the movie! Not like there was much plot anyway.

4) The camera work. Wow, really bad. There are so many shots where someone was giving dialogue, but only half of their face was in the shot! They must have been in a rush to get this steaming pile of crap of a movie out to the public.

5) The 'gore' was pathetic. The least a stupid horror movie can do is give us good death scenes, reward us with watching these stupid people getting grusemly killed - but NO, its so bad with just fake movie blood thrown on someone to show that they are dead. I would have liked a big gaping wound when a throat gets slashed instead of stupid red magic marker drawn on the victim's neck - which is exactly what this movie does.

The best part of the movie: One of the characters says at one point "We should just all kill oursleves" to express her hopelessness at the situation. Yes, that is true, they should have killed themselves, that would have been MUCH better. In fact, everyone involved with the making of this atrocity should kill themselves.

Not very good - rip off of other films

[bdl7431 · 2/10 · 6 February 2006]

Well, what can I say - when the cable channel program guide classifies this as a "Substandard slasher film" then you KNOW there must be something wrong...

SPOILER AHEAD!!!!! The film imitates (a nice way of saying "RIPS-OFF") a couple of other slasher films, like Jamie Lee Curtis' "Prom Night", where the slasher is mentally deranged and taking revenge for crimes committed against someone special in his/her life by fellow classmates. In this case, the classmates are high school students who accidentally burned down a house of the slasher's foster parents (I think - it's hard to follow)with a wayward roman candle. So, when the slasher disposes of one of the victims - a roman candle is left next to them.

Anyway, the movie tries real hard to drag red herrings across the trail at various places. For example, the wife of the county sheriff is over-sexed and under-appreciated, and so she gets out of her bed in the middle of the night and drives 10 - 15 miles to do it with one of these kids. The sheriff may of noticed - or he may of not - all we see is him fumbling around the suddenly vacated bed. The problem is there is so little back fill of story, that its hard to figure out what the heck is going on, or who would have motive to kill anyone.

Instead, much time is wasted on useless story elements. For example, the kids are on a camping trip, and they unpack their SUV in a five minute sequence where the motion is sped up - think something along the lines of a Benny Hill chase scene. Then, we are treated to another five minutes of kids playing in a lake, who don't seem to miss one of their own who was murdered in the middle of the previous night.

The gore is not really gore, with low budget movie blood being used. Some of the murders seem improbable - like one where two kids are shot through the neck with the same arrow, when they were both facing the slasher? Overall, don't expect much of this film. It's a confusing muddle of elements, too bad to be entertaining in the least bit (some films are so bad they're actually enjoyable to watch, like a Mystery Science Fiction Theater 3000 film). It apparently got an R-rating, although I suspect it's more due to the kids using the F-word every 30 seconds than gore or nudity. If you're bored, and this happens to be on - well, its better than nothing, but barely.

Van Slee's Slasher Movie

[Crap_Connoisseur · 9 July 2006]

Adam & Evil is a rather average entry into the teen horror market by Canada's king of crap, Andrew Van Slee. While Adam & Evil doesn't quite match the heights (or lows, depending on which way you look at it) of "Net Games", it offers enough blood and lame humour to ensure a relatively painless 90 minutes of trashy entertainment.

This film revisits one of horror's classic premises. A group of teenagers go camping only to be butchered by the local psycho. This scenario, while not exactly groundbreaking, has the advantage of providing plenty of opportunity for mixing a bit of sex and nudity in between the slicing and dicing. In fact, the first half of Adam & Evil plays more like a bad episode of a teen drama than a horror movie. Nothing really happens apart from a lot of bickering and embarrassing conversations about sex and penis size. There are also several confused flashbacks to a fire, which are neither scary nor disturbing.

Thankfully, things pick up when the blood starts to flow. There are throat slashings and crossbow shootings but nothing particularly gory or original. I did cheer, however, when the loser serenading his girlfriend (on a raft, no less) meets his end. The action becomes slightly less insipid when the survivors flee the camping grounds. This is despite the fact that their every action flies in the face of basic common sense. The remainder of the film offers a couple of tense moments and a reasonably enjoyable finale, which unfortunately is ruined by one of the most ridiculous surprise twists in recent memory. The twist is so stupid that I found it strangely satisfying, much like the insane turn of events in Van Slee's high watermark "Net Games". The motive behind this serial killer's actions is really beyond all belief.

The actors are uniformly terrible. However, given the script it is hard to imagine anyone leaving this film with their dignity fully intact. I can live with appalling actors if the gore content is high enough. Adam & Evil is pretty tame as far as the gore is concerned but there is enough poorly executed violence to make it relatively bearable. Andrew Van Slee has once again outdone himself on the script and his directorial skills are as peculiar as ever. The gore effects are reasonable and the film is thankfully brief.

Adam & Evil is the kind of horror trash that I find mindlessly entertaining. I seriously doubt that this film will frighten anyone over 12 years old, but it is an inoffensive enough way to spend 90 minutes of your time.

Do you have any idea of what it feels like to be treated like a piece of Grabage!

[sol-kay · 5/10 · 24 May 2006]

(There may be Spoilers) One of the many Friday the 13th/Halloween-type imitations that in this movie "Adam & Evil" takes place in the great outdoors at the heavily wooded Nede Campgrounds. We at first get this story about a fire started by young Adam that was set on the 4th of July four years ago that ended up killing the Kehoes family. Adam never fully recovered for the Kehoes' deaths and we soon learn that neither did the unseen and unknown killer who is very soon to make his, or her, grand and deadly appearance in the film.

Very high body-count, well over a dozen, even for a slasher movie together with the usual, in slasher movies, paper thin story-line. The killer stalk this group of collage students going out to the country for a weekend of fun and games but ending up dead or traumatized by the time their vacation was over.

The killer's first victim is Seth who, lying blissfully in his tent, expected to get into some hot and heavy action with the girl of his dreams Yvonne but only got his throat slashed by the killer. Catching both Rob & Rachael alone on a raft in the river the killer runs them through with a cross-bow and before anyone realizes that there's something wrong. The killer has already set a number of traps all along the campsite that does in almost the entire student body.

It seems obvious at first to both the campers and audience that Shane, a former boyfriend of one of the campers Evelyn, together with his friend Billy who are seen secretly following the students all throughout the movie are somehow responsible in these brutal murders. Like in all these kind of who done it slasher films you soon realize that both Shane & Billy are merely red herrings thrown into the mix, or the script, by the writer and director of the movie just to throw us off the track. Billy is later found murdered and Shane is run over by Adam who together with Matt Yvette & Evelyn, the last four survivors out of the eight students on the camping trip, run him down with their van.

You would have thought that the killings would end with both Shane and Billy put out of action but they still continue with local Sheriff Earl, who took the remaining students into the safety of his home, and his wife Maureen getting murdered. Matt then ends up shot to death by the shadowy psycho to where we finally get to see who he really is that has to be the biggest highlight and surprise in the movie.

Half-way decent slasher movie with a surprising and unexpected conclusion that didn't at all come across as the usual cop-out ending that you see in most of theses kind of horror flicks. It did make sense, if you connected it with what you saw at the beginning of the movie, even though it did somewhat stretch you imagination and sense of reality a bit.

Released in the UK as Halloween Camp 2: Scream if You Wanna Die Faster (oh yes)

[daniel-mannouch · 3/10 · 19 October 2019]

Halloween Camp 2 suffers from very dark cinematography and a green as grass cast that share no chemistry whatsoever. If what i could hear was any indignation of the quality of what I couldn't see, then i did not miss much.

As the murder set pieces are all dirt cheap and lazily done as well, there is not much at all really for a slasher aficionado to really grasp upon, minus the un-ironic box ticking of every narrative cliche within the sub-genre. That and the aggressively early 2000's soundtrack.

In conclusion, there is not a lot I can talk about regarding Halloween Camp 2. Though i fear I guess I might gain a reputation for not liking films i can't see. It's bland, it's mediocre, it's the post-scream slasher in a dull nutshell. And for the life of me, I simply can't recommend it.

Adam and Evil

[Scarecrow-88 · 4/10 · 23 July 2010]

Lots of pretty girls to ogle in this camping trip slasher as the usual suspects(they all look about 23, but the movie has them as graduating high school students heading to college, or so they think..)fall prey to a psychopath. The destination is Lake Nede Campground and when the gang stop off for directions, they are told by a local that there were murders in that neck of the woods, kids chopped into pieces and all..but, such a story will not deter our group, no siree. Basically a Friday the 13th movie without Jason Voorhies as your killer. The killer mostly uses a cross bow to inflict damage on the victims. An important event(a horrifying tragedy where a family was burned alive in their home thanks to a firecracker prank gone awry), that haunts character Adam's nightmares, causing him to suffer sleep deprivation as a result, is obviously from the get-go the reason for the murders. Regarding the death of this family, at each crime scene a roman candle is left as a reminder of that event which might explain the motive behind why all these kids are being hunted down. Lots of eye candy to admire, such as Lynsey Brothers, Erica Cerra, Barbara Kottmeier, and Tiffany Paterson, and there's one particular scene, when all are in bikinis, where the director's camera lingers up and down all their bodies(he is just as fond of their beauty as we are). The plot is standard stuff..recycled formula of scared "teens" running around looking for escape as a killer is among them somewhere. The revelation at the end behind the murders is a little tacky, but it's never as much about the motive as it is about the murders themselves(which aren't that whopping, either). The title kind of informs you as to who the killer might be if you pay attention. Sean Arnfinson is Adam, the one having nightmares, while Brody Harris is his pal, Matt. Brothers is Adam's girlfriend Yvette. I could go on and on about the other characters but they represent the stock line up of "pretty lambs to the slaughter", so why bother.

Why did I watch this to the very end?

[kellyphx · 1/10 · 8 January 2006]

Utter piece of trash, I can't believe I actually watched it all the way to the end. Speaking of the ending, I have to admit I didn't see it coming. Probably because I stopped paying close attention after ten minutes. I won't spoil it for you, but hopefully you won't ever be watching this c - - p. Reading the back of a cereal box would have been a better use of time than watching this movie.

That said, there are a few fascinating things about this movie. There is, of course, the obvious: fascinatingly bad direction, writing and acting. The other is, where did they find actors with mouths this big? I mean, honest, they all make Julia Roberts' mouth look petite. You can't help but just watch these people talk... it's like watching alien lifeforms. I notice on some of the cast's filmographies here on IMDb they've done nothing much else but this movie. Thank God. We've all been spared. I hope the director and scriptwriter realize they ought to be selling real estate and stay out of the movie business.

Cheap post-millennial slasher cheese.

[DigitalRevenantX7 · 2/10 · 24 January 2017]

A group of young adults head to a remote campsite in order to unwind. But what they don't know is that somebody with a grudge to bear is planning to get their revenge over an incident a few years before where an entire family died in a prank-caused house fire. One by one, the friends are killed, a Roman Candle firework left behind as a warning for the survivors. But as the friends cotton on to the plot, they find that there are plenty of people they need to keep an eye on.

The independent horror film industry has really taken off once the millennium arrived – seemingly anyone with a cheap camcorder, a small budget & an idea can make a film, usually roping in their friends to keep costs down & have a good laugh over it. I have seen an awful lot of such films & while there are some hidden gems amongst this crowd, the sad fact is that most of them don't fit the expectations of the audience.

Adam & Evil is a cheap slasher film that follows the time-worn plot of the original Friday THE 13TH almost to the letter, only without a summer camp for a location. Instead, director-scribe-producer Andrew Van Slee has decided to make the cheapest FT13 knockoff he can. And sure enough the results emerge as disappointing.

The main problem is that slasher films, while matching zombie films for ideal films to be made on the cheap, have dated badly as a concept. While zombie films have endured because of their evolving nature, slasher films have become pretty much obsolete. There is nothing in the slasher that can be taken seriously these days or not seeming like a cliché. This subgenre hit its stride back in the early 1980s – more than 30 years ago. Since then, it has dated badly & now slasher films are nothing more than cheap cheese that will only be useful for a good derisive laugh.

The film's story is almost complete cliché – one-dimensional characters, paper-thin plot, plenty of guessing on who the killer is (although to be fair, the killer's identity was a considerable surprise, although the rationale for their killing spree was really lame), plenty of partying teens & drinking. Unusually for a slasher film, the sex & gore is kept to a minimum, which will further push the film to the B-film gutter. The actors do the usual rounds almost robotically & the constant kills will keep the pace going for a fair bit. Not exactly the worst slasher film around, but Adam & Evil is a piece of trash that will only be useful for having itself mocked & derided by the viewer, preferably Under The Influence.

Another STRONG candidate for "Worst Film Ever Made."

[I_Ailurophile · 1/10 · 31 October 2022]

Less than five minutes in, and I'm already aghast at how obnoxious this is. Why was it, again, that I decided to watch 'Adam & Evil?'

Here is another instance of a movie with dialogue so absolutely atrocious (and wildly excessive no less) that it would be improved by simply muting the audio. The characters are completely boorish, aggravating, and unlikable, oversexed and empty-headed shells of people that we actively wish are killed sooner rather than later in this slasher. We're subjected to hideous overacting at every turn, but rather than blame the cast, I feel so sorry for them: I swear I can see the pain in their eyes and written all over their faces, as though they were coerced into appearing in this on threat of death. Hey, there's a great idea for a movie - actors forced to appear in awful genre flicks or suffer dire consequences. It would unquestionably be far more interesting and worthwhile than this!

There is no subtlety or tact to be found anywhere here. The scene writing is only half a step behind the dialogue and characters in terms of being horrendously excruciating to behold. The narrative is as bland, common, and pointless as slashers get. I can appreciate that maybe filmmaker Andrew Van Slee just wanted to make his own genre flick and have a good time, and I could forgive the unoriginal bluster of the plot if so - but I cannot, will not, and refuse to be so generous in recognition of how terrible the writing is in every other regard. For as preposterously juvenile as 'Adam & Evil' is - including as well the direction and cinematography - I can't help but wonder if Van Slee is locked in a state of perpetual arrested development, with all the maturity of a 10-year old.

Even the work of the hair and makeup artists is dubious. I suppose they performed their work well as the production tawdrily demanded, but where their contributions are fine and fetching for the women, all the men look like caricatures of early 2000s' "style." Editing, effects, music, and all else are total balderdash even from the opening scene. All this might theoretically be acceptable if the feature were intended as a parody of slashers - observe, for example, how the reveal of the killer introduces story ideas that we've hearing about for the very first time. Yet given that it's never funny at any point - only abhorrently overcooked - not only can 'Adam & Evil' never so much as inspire a single happy neuron to fire off, but it instead becomes an object of supreme, unswerving enmity.

However it is you come across this movie, whatever it is you think you might get out of it: even if you're a fan of someone who got roped into it (I'm so sorry, Erica Cerra), you don't need to watch this. You should, in fact, strive mightily to avoid ever accidentally watching. From start to finish, in every way, 'Adam & Evil' is hopeless, senseless rubbish, and my best guess is that Van Slee blackmailed the cast and crew into participating.

Ninety minutes of my life that I'll never get back.

Low-rent cabin-in-the-woods slasher in the Great Northwest

[Wuchakk · 6/10 · 13 April 2024]

Eight high school graduates and two stragglers from Oregon head out to Lake Nede to celebrate, but they soon learn that a mad slayer is loose in the area. Havoc ensues.

"Adam & Evil" (2004) isn't a spoof of teen slashers, but there's a bit o' hammy acting, particularly Erica Cerra in one scene as Yvonne. The fact that it's very low-budget can be observed in the relatively cheesy effects of the opening scene, but they're not THAT bad.

I can't find specific data, but I doubt it cost much more than $150,000 to make; however, if you can roll with its micro-budget issues (like questionable acting), it pretty much delivers the goods as a traditional slasher-in-the-woods. While not as 'good' as "Body Count" or "Edge of the Axe," it's at least as entertaining as "The Final Terror" or "Terror at Tenkiller" and superior to "The Prey," "Beserker," "Madman" and, especially, the lousy "Don't Go in the Woods."

There are no less than 13 characters with 10 of them being high school graduates, so it's hard to get a lock on their names. Yet the forest sets, night lighting and sound are all proficient. There's also some rockin' music on the soundtrack by writer/director Andrew Van Slee, Natasha Thirsk, The Dirtmitts and Born Against Christians.

The script is decent as well with a well-done "reveal" at the end (IMHO). Sure, the teens act like typical partying youths, but isn't that the way it is? (I've camped right by them on occasion). Would it be more realistic if they discussed quantum physics or deep theology at the campsite?

The flirtatious blonde wife of the sheriff stands out on the feminine front (Allison Warnyca), but the rest of the 18 years-old lasses are too interchangeable (same thin body-type, same height, all Caucasians). Speaking of which, the flick sneers at "diversity," which some might find welcome and others offensive. It's not offensive; it's just the way it is half the time.

It runs 1 hour, 30 minutes, and was shot entirely in Vancouver.

GRADE: B-/C+

Brazil

[donaldsteiner · 1/10 · 11 November 2010]

The reason this movie plays like it was written by a moron is because it was written by a Brazilian Moron. Cheep Cheep cheep! I can only say if the writer was paid at all then I am in the wrong business.The quality of the film was cheep.The directing of the film was cheep.The location of the film was cheep.What passes for film today is a very sorry excuse for the evolution of film.I am so sorry for films like this because the next generation wont be challenged to do more to captivate us.A simple home recorder and some high school friends and you to could have and Oscar.The minimum is for me to write ten lines in the review.With that Im finding it very difficult to think of ten lines to review such rubbish.

One of the worst horror movies i've seen

[mr_iceman · 29 November 2004]

This movie is a complete joke..i totally agree with "rwduke" on the way he said 'there are not enough bad words in the dictionary to describe this movie'

the worst thing in the movie was the acting. it was even worse than the plot, story, and the whole movie in general. It was so fake if you look at the actor's face while screaming, you can see its done intentionally but with complications too. i thought Cabin Fever was bad, but Cabin fever is like The Godfather compared to this. Especially when one of the girl's a the "killer" (and i say this loosely) she pulls out a knife and screams "thats it, I'm very angry now" and walks fast with a hunch, like walking in a dark alleyway holding a candle.

totally pathetic. 2/10