Isolation (2005)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.9/10   

Director:

Billy O'Brien

Guionista:

Billy O'Brien (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

7 junio 2006 (France)

Género:

Horror | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

A horror film set on a lonely farm in rural Ireland

Plot:

On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.

Plot Keywords:

Farm | Cow | Calf | Fetus | Intestines

Premios:

9 wins & 2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Claustrophobic and suspenseful eco-horror

Reparto

Essie Davis	...	Orla
Sean Harris	...	Jamie
Marcel Iures	...	John
Crispin Letts	...	Doctor
John Lynch	...	Dan
Ruth Negga	...	Mary
Stanley Townsend	...	Garda Hourigan

MPAA:

Rated R for violence/gore, language and a scene of sexuality.

Duración:

Canada:95 min (Toronto International Film Festival)

País:

UK | Ireland

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Ireland:16 | France:-12 | Singapore:NC-16 | Germany:18 (DVD) | Portugal:M/16 | Greece:K-13

Locaciones de Filmación:

County Wicklow, Ireland

Compañía:

Film Four

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Inside the Barn: Creating Isolation (2007) (V)

Banda de Sonido:

I'm Going To Make You Love Me

Claustrophobic and suspenseful eco-horror

Billy O'Brien's excellent ecologically themed horror is a measured, carefully paced and excellently judged picture featuring bags of sweaty suspense and a few good jolts. The film is further boosted by some strong performances from John Lynch and Sean Harris.

The film is particularly effective in evoking the atmosphere of subsistence rural life - one can virtually smell the slurry pits and manure. Uncomfortable memories of the UK's foot and mouth crisis surface as the farm location is quarantined and cow carcasses are torched.

It is certainly a challenge to make cows scary - but this does a better job than The Dark. Bob Keen's sparingly glimpsed monster effects are reminiscent of those seen in Cronenberg's Existenz, particularly the scene in that film's Chinese restaurant. His team also did an excellent job on the cow and calf effects.

Overall a terrific little terror picture that deserves wide exposure.