and sandal craze in the '80s that swept both America and Europe produced some deeply strange films, but nothing else out there is quite 
like Adam and Eve, better known on the tape-trading circuit as Adam and Eve vs. the Cannibals. Yep, it's a psychotic retelling of that famous opening book of the Bible filtered through the sensibilities of Yor, the Hunter from the Future. In fact, that film's score by Guido and Maurizio De Angelis gets recycled here a bit along with major chunks of their work for Alien 2: On Earth, so we're clearly a long way from your average devout biblical epic. Plus it stars Italian action favorite Mark Gregory in his second role, following the immortal 1990: The Bronx Warriors and the same year he also appeared in Escape from the Bronx and Thunder.
Adam following suit. Cast out, they don some very skimpy coverings and embark on an adventure somehow left out of 
the Bible involving green-color men, cavemen, other humans (which raises a lot of questions), a big bear suit, multiple disasters, and a fight with a pterodactyl partially achieved through footage from One Million Years B.C. before humanity is set on the path that led to where we are today. 
pseudo-public domain options, Adam and Eve has been transferred from the original negative bearing the on-screen title Adam and Eve: The First Love Story. A very funny opening text 
card implies an arduous process of salvaging the very degraded and problematic source material, and whatever devout prayers and technological magic were involved, the results are gorgeous with some minor baked-in damage here and there barely even registering. Extra points for the packaging synopsis which credits this as being from "an original story by God." The film bears a Dolby Stereo credit at the end, but as with other titles like Hell of the Living Dead, there hasn't been anything out there to back that up; in any case, the DTS-HD MA 2.0 mono English and Italian options here both sound very good and come with optional English translated or SDH subtitle options. Either way you'll get an earful of that theme song, "My First Love" sung by Tania Solnik (which gets played about a dozen times), not to mention the "primitive languages created by John Gaiford." Special features include the English theatrical trailer and "Forbidden Cut" (21m21s) with editor Gianfranco Amicucci talking about the decline of Italian cinema as the '80s went along, his gig on this film thanks to The Shark Hunter, the casting of the very polite Gregory (Doria "thought he'd look good in a fig leaf") who had a very sad life after leaving films, the major budgetary constraints, his multiple projects with the De Angelis brothers, and the editing challenges of working with stock footage and DIY special effects.