Carnival of souls

* NBC is abandoning the traditional September-May TV season next year in favor of the 52-week rollout that’s been the de facto model for the past few years anyway. In terms of the few shows I care about I think this is good, as arbitrary scheduling decisions should have less of an impact on storytelling decisions, although I guess none of it really matters until Nielsen rejiggers sweeps.

* Stacie “Final Girl” Ponder rather hilariously interviews American Psycho screenwriter Guinevere Turner. Definitely check out the photo captions.

* B-Sol at the Vault of Horror rightfully praises Robert Carlyle’s jaw-droppingly powerful performance in 28 Weeks Later as Oscar-worthy in an alternate universe where such performances get noticed by anyone who doesn’t also happen to have a zombie escape plan committed to memory.

* Man, someone give this guy a self-published comic about women and fashion! (Via Heidi MacDonald.)

* Ken Lowery tries to explain why he doesn’t like “torture porn,” but in lumping together and subsequently dismissing a whole slew of movies including the Saw series, the two Hostel movies, Turistas, The Devil’s Rejects, Chaos, and so on, he disregards separating the wheat from the chaff in any meaningful way, and moreover discusses only one of those films in any kind of detail, so even if his argument is that there is no wheat, that’s not at all clear. I think one day we’ll be as unlikely to hear these kinds of arguments from genre buffs as we currently are to hear them say “slasher movies are no good” as though there’s no difference between Halloween and Jason Takes Manhattan.

* Finally, nightmare fuel: A deep-sea video camera captures images of dozens of giant sea spiders.