the audience applauded

Please don't spend money on this.

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

As always - Let me start off by saying that I am not a movie critique nor a cinema student, just a humble Horror addict. This time I would also like to add that I'm usually a very easy grader. It doesn't take much for me to to enjoy a horror film, even sometimes adore it. In this case, however, I must say I was slightly disappointed.The story is not more than cute, if to be merciful, and is far from original... Something evil which crawls into a live host, infests it like a parasite, then eats it way out? Doesn't it ring just a few too many bells? The farmyard agricultural adaptation was a nice idea, okay. The acting wasn't bad or anything, but was far from impressive. This is not at all the Sean Harris I loved so much in Creep. The entire film had this sort of gloomy mood to it, set by dark lighting effects. But here that simply caused sort of a boring effect, rather than a frightening or disturbing one.All in all the thrill/suspense level was pretty low. The worst part: the disgusting footage of animal interior organs and surgery. True, it added somewhat to the development of the plot, but to me it still felt like cheap vegan propaganda. There aren't too many Irish Horror films out there, and not too many "agricultural"/"biological" horrors either (unless you count "Splice" as horror). Think of this as Alien meets Species meets Splice meets Old McDonald's farm... Fans of weird stories and B-C class low budget films might disagree with me and find this film rather enjoyable. I, personally, will not be recommending this one to anyone I know. So give it a chance if you like exploring, or take my advice and watch something else.

I will briefly describe my experience when downloading the movie: Isolation, on iTunes. I wasn't quite sure what to expect. The movie was listed with a mediocre website score both here on IMDb and on iTunes, so I thought to myself I'd give this movie a shot. The previews looked really good and held out most of the flaws I am about to explain below.The scenery of a desolate farm in Northern Ireland as well as the classic camera work that was used made it much more atmospheric. This type of solitude in cinema reminded me of the good old days of watching the Thing. The acting was very solid, especially for the protagonist farmer Dan played by John Lynch. It has all its initial suspenseful moments matched up in the beginning where I was with chilly expectations. The intensity was there up until after the segment of the cows rather disturbing and grotesque sequence giving birth to its calf. Afterwards there were some minor moments of freakish creature feature. There is much storytelling involved along the lines to how these parasite monster evolve, some of it is actually intriguing. The movie did its best to conceal the true identity of the monsters/parasites until half way through. This is where the movie started to die in terms of fear factor.My big complaint about Isolation, was the level of fear factor that involved this parasite monster when it was actually exposed. Sure the minimal special effects did the job on it in terms of quality but it is hard to be afraid of something that resembles a chaotic mess of rubbery flesh that squirms around with its pointy teeth. There was some inconsistency with its size as well. It jumps on one victim like it's 200 pounds, while another actor impales it and lifts it up in the air like it's 10 pounds later on. Physically, it was probably the worst movie monster I've ever seen in recent memory. I wish it was more believable in itself.I can't hate the movie completely and can't fault it for its merits, the cinematography is very well done and perhaps its biggest strength. I still recommend Isolation though some may understandably find themselves disappointed.

The UK have proved once again you don't need a bunch of horny topless teen-agers running around getting hacked to bits in order to be scary. In fact, I don't want to see anyone in this film naked.It starts of with the fact we're in an isolated farm. So isolated that a couple has gone there to hide from murderous loved ones. The farmer besides, wanting the squatters gone is having his own problem birthing a calf. Every time he sticks his hand in the cows coochie it ends up getting bit. Once the calf is scarily pulled from the mother, the troubles really begin as the biting spreads throughout the farm. A veterinarian shows up and tells them he's going to have to quarantine the farm so this doesn't spread any further. He also reveals that some experimental substance was used to birth the cattle. The farmer and squatters band together to find out what this is. And now the bug hunt/ new host hunt begins, who will win?

It's not "Dead Meat" or "Black Sheep" but it's not so bad. One of many recent non-American horror films about ovines and bovines running amok, "Isolation" is pretty grim and serious.An Irish dairy farmer partners with a genetic engineer for some cash. But when a cow gives birth to a rather nasty and bitey little calf, things turn bad fast. In an attempt to build a better cow, the calf is born pregnant with mean little mutant fetuses. One escapes and spreads its nastiness, trapping the farmer, a vet, the scientist and two young lovers on the farm as they hope to stop the calf-monster from taking over the world. Or at least Ireland.The main problem is that cows aren't inherently scary. And the fetus-monsters are shown to be rather fragile, what with their skeletons on the outside. So it's hard to catch any real sense of urgency, especially from such stoic Irish characters. But there's one scene of the cow-monster that was pretty frightening and there's some decent gore. And in context of the mass animal slaughters in the UK with Mad Cow and Hoof and Mouth, the whole thing is relevant and bleak and disturbing.I think I still prefer "Dead Meat," which has about as frightening a cow attack as I suppose you can make. But those who like their horror serious or with an interest in GM foods should find something to like in "Isolation."