A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

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 sticky little nasty takes a Holstein and makes it scary, quite an accomplishment. The farm atmosphere was pleasantly realistic, with mud everywhere and the requisite preg check an icky affair for those not accustomed. While the characters were left flat, this one was about pacing and a building sense of tension. The story was sparse and only gave enough info to keep us intrigued but wonderfully confused as to what could have possibly gone so wrong. While the POV camera work likely annoyed some, it was more than enjoyable to this viewer. The nasty itself was a mess of a creature, a wonderfully slimy affair made sans CGI. Overall this was a an enjoyable entry to the horror genre.Evil Eye Reviews

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?