First and foremost I'm going to say is that, I love this movie. This has to be the first movie to actually give me a good scare in a very long time. It doesn't have a lot of serious HOLY CRAP moments. But each one is put in the right spot.I personally don't see this as a horror movie, it's more of suspense movie, slowly building up each moment.Um, the basically the plot is a farmer who been down on his luck and in need of money has agreed to let a scientist use a cow to create a calf that was capable of reproducing more caws more quickly.Unfortunately, something went terribly wrong, the calf most have gotten a parasite in it or something because it developed a taste for flesh and blood. It first bit the vet when she was checking it. Later, it bit the farmer after had manged to save it's life.A few hours after the vet returns to find out the calf was born, but almost immediately she notices something is wrong with the calf and tries to kill it with a bolt gun. But the calf moves slightly just as she pulls the trigger, the calf is seriously wounded and starts mooing, the mother cow senses her baby is in danger and tries repeatedly to get to it. All the while the vet and farmer are trying to kill the calf. Around maybe the 5th try to cow jumps on to the metal gate and falls out knocking the vet in the head. The vet manages to kill both cow and calf and takes the calf to be examined in the near by room. In there, she finds out the calf was already pregnant, but when she cuts open the sacks, she finds the 6 baby calf's horrendously disfigured and mutated. Everything was inside out, which resulted in a slug like thing with a nasty apatite.Some how one manged to survive, but it then went on a biting streak, it bit a freeloader and attempted to bite her girlfriend in the vagina.There's a bit more, but I don't want to ruin the whole movie for you. Although, I did manged to ruin like 2/3s of it. Sorry.The one thing I didn't really like and I thought was seriously stupid was the farmer takes a tractor into this giant swimming pool type thing of crap to try and scare out the mutant cow worm, but he gets stuck in the deeper end as the tractors engine got flooded with you guessed it poop.The best way to describe this worm cow is, it's like the chest buster from the movie Aliens, just inside out.

This low-budget Irish monster movie has much in common with the recent American horror film SPLINTER . While it may not be quite as good as that movie, it has the same kind of grim and frightening atmosphere in its depiction of a small group of people in a rural locale who find themselves at the mercy of a seemingly unstoppable creation. This time around, genetically-modified cattle are the breeding ground for a strange parasite made of bone and gristle that haunts the inhabitants of a farm.The film has a strong visual style. The mucky farmyards and cattle sheds are brought vividly to a grimy, dirty life where you can almost smell the manure. The scenes with the creature are grim and disturbing, and the camera-work frequently had me on edge while I was waiting to find out what transpired next. The cast is small but effective, with particular mention going to Marcel Iures as the scientist responsible for the horrors that unfold and Sean Harris as the innocent man caught up in it all. ISOLATION may not be a very original or memorable film, but it is often startling, vicious and nasty and I found it a breath of fresh air amid other contemporary horror fare.

Isolation is set in Ireland on a rundown cattle farm owned by Daniel (John Lynch), sinister genetic scientist John (Marcel Iures) along with local vet Orla (Essie Davis) have been carrying out genetic experiments on Daniel's livestock. As a result of trying to genetically produce more fertile Cow's with shorter gestation periods one of Daniel's Cow's gives birth to a deformed mutant which itself is pregnant with six mutant babies, after killing the mother Cow & baby Calf Orla carries out a crude autopsy during which one of the mutant foetus creatures crawl's off unnoticed. The mutant foetus starts to infect the other Cow's & more mutants are born, the infection & creatures must be stopped on Daniel's farm or risk a widespread epidemic throughout the world...This British & Irish co-production was written & directed by Billy O'Brien & is a sort of mix of Alien (1979) with it's parasitic creatures that burst out of stomachs & it's water dripping, chain clinking visuals & sonics, the slimly design of the monsters comes right from The Thing (1982) & the whole genetic experiments gone wrong on a farm reeks of Black Sheep (2006) all three of which are better than Isolation. For a start Isolation is slow going, really slow going at times & there's not a whole lot to it other than there's this farm with a killer mutant baby Cow monster crawling around. The monster doesn't really do that much apart from scratch a few people & the script focuses on what it represents rather than what it does, the idea that if it escapes the farm the mutant Calf infection will spread across the world is mentioned often but ultimately Isolation never leaves the confines of the farm. The character's are alright & slightly stronger than expected if a little dull, Isolation isn't your typical Hollywood horror & there's no good looking girls to strip or young teenagers to save the day, the character's here are pretty believable even if they are rather forgettable. The genetic experiments are never gone into in any great detail & the scripts message about not tampering with Mother Nature or altering genetics for gain & failed scientific experiments is far from original. At a shade over 90 minutes Isolation goes for a slow build-up & never really gets going, quite simply there were too many times when I was sat there watching this bored.Along with a slow script the direction is also pretty slow with some fairly long shots that drag scenes out, Isolation is a pretty dull looking film set on a dirty & rundown cattle farm in the bleak Irish countryside. The monster itself isn't seen killing anyone, it's implied it killed someone but otherwise it doesn't seem that interested randomly killing people. There's a bit of gore, there's plenty of Cow guts, some blood splatter, a bolt gun is used to kill a Cow & a guy while the monster itself is mainly kept in the shadow's although it's also nice to see a modern film without any CGI computer effects. The whole look & feel of Isolation reminded me of Alien, sure Alien set on a farm in Ireland but Alien none the less.With a supposed budget of about £2,900,000 this had a reasonable amount spent on it, it's very well made with slick production design but again I found it rather bleak, forgettable & dull. Filmed in County Wicklow in Ireland. The acting is solid from a decent cast not chosen for their looks.Isolation is a film that many seem to like, personally I didn't since it felt far too similar to lots of other genetic experiments gone wrong type horror films without distinguishing itself in the slightest. I found it slow to the point of boredom, somewhat predictable & the warning about genetic experimentation & it's horrible consequences is far from original.

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?