Dark Copers Podcast
Your hosts Angie and Dominic discuss the unsettling, obscure, and darker themes surrounding our films, society, arts and literature. Specifically, the mechanisms in which we us these themes to "deal with it".
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks "Why do we like horror?"
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/30/1132658607/why-do-we-like-horror
".....The lab identifies a category of fear-seeker it calls “dark copers”: people who report that “watching scary movies helps them control negative emotions of anxiety and depression that might arise from thinking about the more difficult aspects of life......"
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Dark Copers Podcast
Episode 8: "The Cherry on Top"
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Good Evening Dark Copers!
Tonight we are discussing "Mandy" and what was that giant bug she gets stung by? Angie reopens the case for Gilgo Beach and Stranger Things. Dominic asks the question: "How old should a kid be to watch a baseline horror movie, and why is that answer 7 years old?"
