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......" Have a question? Want us to review a flick? Have advice or correction that we screwed up? Contact us! thedarkcopers@gmail.com
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