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Whereas splatter movies wield gore and carnage like a weapon to evoke a visceral response, splatter comedies push the onscreen violence and gore into outlandish territory for the sake of a hearty laugh. Peter Jackson and Sam Raimi, for example, began their filmmaking careers defining the modern splatter comedy with their early works, pushing the boundaries of taste, horror, and humor through cartoonish bloodletting.

This week brings the arrival of a new splatter-comedy, Destroy All Neighbors, presenting the perfect excuse to laugh your way through the excess entrails and arterial spray the niche subgenre has to offer. These five splatter comedies vary in style and tone, but all seek to tickle your funny bone through humor, fun, and a whole lot of guts.

Here’s where you can stream them this week.

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Blood Diner – The Roku Channel

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Noboru Iguchi is a director and screenwriter. He was born in 1969 and he began his career in the 1990s as a director of porno films. His “Kurushime-san” of 1997, which combined horror and black comedy, revealed his interest in extreme genre cinema. The titles of his next films confirmed this passion – his filmography contains “A Larva to Love”, “Cat-Eyed Boy”, the famous “The Machine Girl” about a girl with an arm replaced with a machine gun, “Zombie Ass” and “Karate-Robo Zaborgar”. Starting with “Flowers of Evil” his filmography started taking a more “serious” turn, although the extremity never abandoned a filmmaker that now counts more than 70 titles as a director.

On the occasion of the release of his two latest films, “Tales of Bliss and Heresy” and “Idol Never Dies”, we speak with him about his personal trauma, the messages he wanted to convey, idols, Bataille, and many other topics.

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If the new release slate is any indication, this Halloween season will be massive for horror. That doesn’t even begin to cover the library title additions to the plethora of streaming services available.

September brings home brand new releases, underseen classics, wacky cult gems, and more to add to your Halloween viewing watchlists.

Here are ten noteworthy horror titles available for streaming in September 2022 on some of the most popular streaming services, along with when/where you can watch them.

The Ring Two (Extended Version) – September 1 (HBO Max)

The Naomi Watts-starring remake of Goodnight Mommy is headed to Prime Video on September 16. Ahead of its debut, catch up with Watts in the sequel to the 2002 remake, The Ring. The Ring Two picks up months after the first film’s events, with Samara again targeting Rachel’s son. HBO Max offers the extended cut of this sequel.

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Over the last 14 years, Japan Cuts has unambiguously become America’s best annual showcase of new Japanese film. Produced in partnership with (and typically hosted by) New York’s Japan Society, the well-curated festival has provided domestic audiences with a comprehensive snapshot of the country’s ever-vital national cinema, from mainstream hits like “20th Century Boys” to obscure epics like “Heaven’s Story,” and from micro-budget dramas like “Amiko” to gonzo masterpieces like 2011’s immortal “Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead.” (Cannes really dropped the ball on that one.)

And it wasn’t the only one: Despite the infinity pool of international streaming content that’s now available to cinephiles around the world, many (or even most) of the indelible movies that screen at Japan Cuts don’t go on to receive a proper release of any kind in the United States, which adds an extra touch of urgency to an already essential fest.