{"id":113923,"date":"2025-10-31T10:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/113923\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T10:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:32:12","slug":"a-remarkable-irish-horror-hidden-gem-lands-new-uk-streaming-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/113923\/","title":{"rendered":"A “remarkable” Irish horror “hidden gem” lands new UK streaming home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish horror movie Isolation has landed a new UK streaming home. Originally released back in 2005, the film focuses on five people who become unwilling partakers in an experiment on a remote farm that goes horribly wrong.<\/p>\n

Dropping just in time for Halloween, fans wanting to catch the horror can now do so via Channel 4 after being broadcast on Film4 last night, while the film is also free to watch on YouTube with ads.<\/p>\n

Isolation comes from director and writer Billy O’Brien, and features performances from Blue Lights’ John Lynch, Alien: Earth’s Essie Davis, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End’s Marcel Iure\u0219, Mission: Impossible’s Sean Harris and Passing’s Ruth Negga.<\/p>\n

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The movie sits at a strong 70% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> from 10 reviews, with ESplatter<\/a> suggesting that O’Brien “conjures a remarkable genre achievement: a somber, sad, and absolutely convincing film that is also genuinely terrifying”.<\/p>\n

“Lovers of accidental monsters, science gone awry, and suffocating environments are urged to watch this hidden gem,” added Bloody Disgusting<\/a>, while All Movie Guide suggested that “fans of good old-fashioned creature features should be very pleased” with Isolation.<\/p>\n

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Variety<\/a> further called it “a moody horror opus about the fatal aftermath of DNA research at a remote Irish dairy farm”, adding that “novice writer-director Billy O\u2019Brien brings a seriousness of purpose and a modicum of showmanship to the task of serving generic B-movie cheese”.<\/p>\n

If you’re looking for more horror flicks this Halloween, Channel 4 has also added British psychological horror In Fear<\/a>, which follows a young couple who are pursued by a mysterious tormentor while getting lost in a maze of country roads.<\/p>\n

Recent horror hit Presence has also become available to stream<\/a>, this time for Sky Cinema and NOW subscribers. Starring Lucy Liu, the movie follows a family who move to a new home, only to realise it is occupied by a mysterious presence. The film takes a unique approach in that it is shot from the point of view of the entity.<\/p>\n

Isolation is streaming now via Channel 4<\/a> and YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Sam is a freelance reporter and sub-editor who has a particular interest in movies<\/a>, TV<\/a> and music. After completing a journalism Masters at City University, London, Sam joined Digital Spy as a reporter, and has also freelanced for publications such as NME<\/a> and Screen International<\/a>. \u00a0Sam, who also has a degree in Film, can wax lyrical about everything from Lord of the Rings<\/a> to Love Is Blind<\/a>, and is equally in his element crossing every ‘t’ and dotting every ‘i’ as a sub-editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish horror movie Isolation has landed a new UK streaming home. Originally released back in 2005, the film…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1105,68869,1107,93,61,60,1135,270,68868],"class_list":{"0":"post-113923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-content-type-news","9":"tag-contentid-0999f3f0-ae2a-48dc-a0a9-61c68b29a016","10":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-locale-gb","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-shorttitle-remarkable-irish-horror-lands-new-uk-streamer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}