On a desolate farm in the Irish countryside, destitute Dan Reilly (John Lynch) -- in return for cold cash -- allows his heifers to be part of a genetic study intended to boost bovine fertility and beef output ... until the experiment goes awry. When one of his cows spawns lethal mutants, Dan and a few other unlucky folks suffer the repercussions of meddling with nature in this unsettling chiller also starring Essie Davis and Marcel Iures.That being said, I am big fan of the horror movies coming out of the British Isles over the last decade or so. For me they remind me of the creature features I grew up with on Saturday afternoons - movies I love and have stuck in my memory even to this day. Isolation fits the classic "Don't mess with Mother Nature...or else." mold and it does it well. This is a really fucking good horror movie, in fact I put it in the category of "was that so fucking hard to do"? Really, it's hits the marks: gore, tension, the monster barely makes an appearance until the end of the movie, the acting is solid, the action is solid, it doesn't look like it was made by a bunch of hacks, and it doesn't try to Shamalayan the fuck out of a good taut story. Additionally it's not some campy hyuk-fest filled with teenagers who deserve what they get.
Definitely worth checking out.
