If you loved Isola: Multiple Personality Girl, try St. John's Wort

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Isola: Multiple Personality Girl

2000 · dir. Toshiyuki Mizutani

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St. John's Wort

2001 · dir. Ten Shimoyama

What they share

Theyboth carry the dread mood tag, and they sit in Horror / Science Fiction territory. If that's the register that drew you to Isola: Multiple Personality Girl, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What St. John's Wort is

Overgrown garden. Cicada rasp. A discarded doll. A video-game artist chases her dream-images to a haunted, rural manor with her producer. The game merges with a repressed childhood, a twin sister named Naomi appears in old photos. Shimoyama brings a J-horror visual sense to uncanny sci-fi.

If you loved Isola: Multiple Personality Girl, try St. John's Wort

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What St. John's Wort is

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