Lawbolisted Powerful

XoWizIama Excellent adaptation.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Candida It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Naylor S 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.

fedor8 "Isolation" was an attempt to give horror films that elusive, sexy UK-kitchen-sink-drama feel. It's a new cinematic beast (no, not a mutant cow) and I would call it the "kitchen-sink horror-film". If Mike Leigh ever decided to make a monster flick, this might be something like what it would look like.If your life-long dream has always been to see Essie Davis stick a whole arm up a cow's *ss and then get bitten by something inside it, this is the movie for you. Personally, I just wanted to see the movie coz Essie is in it, not the cow-bum-shoving part. There are only 5-6 people in the entire movie, and yet guess whom they kill off first, before even half the movie is up? Yes, Essie. Thanks a lot, guys. And thanks for letting her show up again, half an hour later, as a damn corpse.A word of advice: NEVER kill off the pretty maiden early on. In fact, don't kill her off at all. The guys are all expendable."Attack of the Killer Cows" or "Invasion of the Cow Snatchers" wouldn't have been quite as serious-sounding as "Isolation". (Let alone "Attack of the Killer Calf".) The term "isolation" is closely related to Socialism's pet disease "alienation", and what self-respecting kitchen-sink UK film could do without that? There is an air of gloom and doom and abject hopelessness all-round in this greenish-brownish film which makes the events less cheesy than they otherwise would have been. After all, these ARE cows that kill, not vampires, and major efforts (or precautions) were made to make sure we don't burst out laughing early on in the movie. In fact, they succeeded because I never once laughed. Unfortunately, I did yawn.Just to avoid misunderstandings, none of these cows suffer from mad-cow disease, it's not that kind of illness. These cows aren't loony. They're totally rational, cold-calculating murderers.It all started as an experiment in which cows were genetically modified in order to increase their growth rate. Couldn't they have just fed them more grass? Or if they wanted bigger cows they could just have sent them to regular binge-bouts in McDonalds. It seems to work for some Americans.The black girl doesn't have it easy. It's bad enough to be hiding away from your brothers in a tiny, run-down, filthy trailer, parked near a depression-inducing Oyrish farm. But then to have to be woken up by a crawling/mutating mini-cow, shaped like the behind of Ridley Scott's alien, that must be as bad as it gets. You know you've hit rock-bottom when you're sleeping in a shoddy trailer, surrounded by farm-based mutant hell-beasts, sneaking up to your c***** at night.Speaking of which, the movie ends with the black girl's pregnancy, 4 months later. I guess the makers of this mediocrity were quite optimistic that "Isolation" would be a smash-hit, hence why not leave a door open for a pointless sequel. Will tiny, shapeless cows take over the world - or won't they? That's almost as exciting as contemplating whether Jane Austin's Mr.Darcy will marry Tina or Gina. Oh, no, I'm yawning again.

wynonasbigbrownbeaver 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.

danthsmith this is a terrific, low key creature feature. Excellent atmosphere and attention to detail in the farm setting make up for not much of a monster. this is just the sort of thing that Hollywood horrors cant do with glossy productions and CGI effects. billy O'Brien deserves a go with a bigger budget. I would be very interesting to see what he can do . The acting is generally believable and the minimal cast works in the films favour. Sticking with animatronic effects makes it creepier (although this was probably for budget reasons). Its a shame the title mad cows was already taken as this seems a natural choice. The scene in the mud with the tractor is brilliant.