Not that Elvis' paean to dangerous women has anything to do with Adam & Evil, or well, maybe it does. See, Adam & Evil wants to be a Teenage Slasher movie very badly, well not slashed so much, as just killed… in pretty crummy ways (specifically, a two for one shot with an arrow is pretty bottom-of-the-barrel stuff). I wasn't expecting anything as original as from the glory days of the genre, but a certain level of fan service would have been nice. I mean, since when did Innuendo and Cutaways replace full on Nudity and Gore. I guess I'm showing my age here, but I still expect a fair amount of Blood n' Boobs with my Slasher flicks.

It's your standard formula, Eight friends (4 guys and 4 girls) decide to go on a camping trip to celebrate their High School graduation. Only instead of alcohol and drug fueled sex and partying they end up being hunted down by a masked killer. There are also the requisite Red Herrings, as it seems that there are a couple of seedy looking guys from their school who follow them into the woods, as well as, a creepy rural Sheriff and his slut of a wife. Actually, the Sheriff's wife, Maureen (Allison Warnyca), is the only source of fan service in the whole movie. Bored with her lonely country life, she decides to track down and seduce the only "Virgin" in the group of teens. Their lovemaking montage is fast, so blink and you'll miss what may be the best part of the whole film.

Adam (Sean Arinfson) takes the lead when he realizes that the killer somehow knows about his dark secret, a secret that we see time and again whether as flashback or as dream sequence, but one that none-the-less is plaguing his thoughts. It seems that when Adam was younger, he and some friend were playing a prank on someone with fireworks and it went horribly awry, resulting in the death of a whole family as their house burned to the ground. It seems that the killer leaves a Roman Candle at each of the murder scenes, so what is their connection to Adam? With the three main girls in the movie named Yvonne, Yvette and Evelyn, it's anyone's guess as to who could be the killer … god I hope you're reading that line as being sarcastic.

With the usual nonsense like people splitting up to find help, the wrong person getting attacked by the teens and the Big Reveal at the end, that will have you scratching your head until the credits roll. The whole thing just kind of feels generic, director Andrew Van Slee does an ok job, but he never really makes it his own, which is kind of ironic since he also wrote the darn thing. The film looks like it was shot on digital and then transferred to film, and while that looked pretty cool in 28 Days Later, it just looks kind of Blah here. So I guess, that while this isn't the worst movie I've ever seen, it's also very, very far from being one of the best.

The DVD:

Picture: The movie is presented in a widescreen 1.85:1 aspect ratio. Overall, the picture is fine, the colors seemed very flat, but was obviously a result of the film's lower budget.

Audio: There is a 5.1 Dolby Digital and 2.0 Dolby Digital Stereo track. The 5.1 channel mix is a bit light during dialogue scenes, with the music and sound effects figuring a little too heavy in the mix.

Extras: The only Extras included on this disc are a Director's Commentary and an array of trailers for other Velocity Horror Films (Asylum Days, Hallow's End, Contagion).

Conclusion: Adam and Evil is just so mediocre in so many ways that I find it hard to recommend at all. It's not exactly a waste of 90 minutes, but there are just so many movies that at least offer something a little more original, and that's Adam and Evil's biggest problem. If it had just tried to do at least one thing original than maybe I could recommend it on that merit alone, but this is a by-the-book slasher pic, that is far to light on the staples of this now classic genre.