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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Episode 18 - Did we lose our way or did the way lose us?
Send us a text Buzzword! Rhy'din RPG Chats! Coping is now mainstream! Angie and Dominic discuss the technological change from dial up modems to ChatGPT. Why does this matter? Because we are stuck on screen time. Normalize deleting tech from your life. Take a breath. Then, redownload your 412th favorite podcast, The Dark Copers podcast.
15 Sept 2024
Season 2 Premiere: Instant Gratification is not Scrolling. It's also not Instant.
Send us a text Pardon our dust! It's Season 2 in the October-flesh! *dad pun* On tonight's Premiere, Dominic mixes up Fede Álvarez and H.G. Wells. Angie explains that your tailor-made dopamine hit is not on your phone. We also cover tracking your 4-head VCR, book wordie words from HP, and standing your ground on REBOOT/MAKEs.
7 Aug 2024
Episode 16: What Koalifies as self-control?
Send us a text Dark Copers! We have a special guest speaking this evening! Coming at you from Australia, Parker sits down with Dominic and they debate the age old question...Pineapple on pizza? Dominic rants and raves back in his day about VHS being scary because Uncle Bob's recorded over video tapes could be moans with OR without the horror. Parker hits us with the perspective of a young adult growing up in the "Google around and find out" age. He shares his personal beliefs on how t...
10 Mar 2024
Episode 15: I am removing your ban on this room, Hanuš. For soothing purposes.
Send us a text Copers, We are discussing Netflix's Spaceman staring Adam Sandler and Carey Mulligan. Angie breaks up the cosmic isolation themes and Dominic obsesses over the therapy that these types of movies carve out. The film itself is getting sliced up in the review garden, but this podcast recommends you to commit to a watch! Let us know what you think!
14 Jan 2024
Episode 14: Imperial Drones and Spotless Minds
Send us a text Hello Copers! It's episode 14! We are talking UFOs, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but mostly I'm Thinking of Ending Things. Were you upset, happy, emotional, and just downright tired of Elijah Wood? So are we! Join us as we unwrap the Miami Aliens shopping for duty free Rum.
7 Dec 2023
Episode 13: Living with vampires for 30 days
Send us a text Staying warm, Dark Copers?? The Holidays are over. It is a New Year and we are talking cold weather horror! Let us know what you enjoy about Winter! Is it the early sunset? Perhaps your favorite book by the fireplace? Live near the Equator unlike us peasants?
18 Nov 2023
Episode 12: The Fall of the House Of Usher
Send us a text Hello Copers, welcome to episode 12! Tonight we are paging through the Netflix show by Poe. Dominic explains his purrfect seating arrangement in strangely precise detail, Angie encourages you to disconnect to reconnect, and we bring up the Roman empire orgies. Do you toga here often?
23 Sept 2023
Episode 11: Annihilating The Thing
Send us a text Good Day, Copies! This episode Dominic internally struggles with the dethrone of his comfort movie, Angie draws conclusion on Aliens from Mexico, and we argue over meters vs miles while using a royal with cheese as a control group. P.S. We -ARE- talking about the XCOM type of Aliens.
15 Sept 2023
Episode 10: A Ghost Story
Send us a text Episode 10 is out! Angie shares with us a personal experience starting with a knock at the door, Dominic circles back to folklore, and are shadow people stealing your wifi password?
7 Sept 2023
Episode 9: Hold on tight, spider monkeys. It's vampire talk.
Send us a text Episode 9 has us talking and hating on vampires, specifically Edward. We're moving along with musical influences, Dominic appreciates a new-to-him Australian horror in the United States, and Angie strokes Bram's style of blood suckers.
14 Aug 2023
Episode 8: "The Cherry on Top"
Send us a text 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?"
1 Aug 2023
Episode 7: Parodist of Poe. The Cosmic Horror Tea.
Send us a text Evening Copers! Tonight we are (re)visiting another angle of HP Lovecraft. Dominic promotes Cthulhu manicures, Angie reveals her crush of James Webb, and we ask the question "Are your night terrors just the fart jokes of the ghost realm?" So pull up your favorite chaise, pour a glass of Ecto Cooler, and listen to Dominic butcher famous experiment facts while Angie throat punches Midsomer.
17 Jul 2023
Episode 6: Rex Heuermann
Send us a text Welcome back Dark Copers! This evening we are spotlighting The Gilgo Beach Serial Killer, Dominic is connecting the dots with HBO's The Outsider, and Angela is begging for season 3 of Netflix's Mind Hunters!
23 Jun 2023
Episode 5: Aye Eye!
Send us a text Hi Copers! Today we are chatting about Artificial Intelligence and all the buzzwords that follow! No, your Roomba and smart fridge are not -trying- to kill you...
19 Jun 2023
Episode 4: "I don't know, go axe your father!"
Send us a text Happy Father's Day Copers! Today we go over the fictional DADites of our horror films, take a swing at the non-fictional scumbags, and compare our social media society of today with the "Blue Plate Special" diner of yesterday! We might uproot some emotions that dark coping can't mend. Reach out to us, thedarkcopers@gmail.com or call/text 988. The 988 Lifeline provides 24/7, confidential support to people in suicidal crisis or mental health-related distress. By calling or tex...
12 Jun 2023
Episode 3: Paranormal; The Walking Dread
Send us a text Hello Dark Copers! In this episode we skim the vast landscape of the paranormal, Angie talks Spanish folklore, and Dominic explores electricity and why your ghosts aren't paying for it!
25 May 2023
Episode 2: Evil Dead Rise
Send us a text Good Evening, Dark Copers! Angie and Dominic are talking all things Evil Dead with the newest addition to the Sam Raimi legacy, Evil Dead Rise. In this post-Mother's day episode, we cover the modern take on a classical cult hit.
20 May 2023
The Pilot
Send us a text Greetings Dark Copers! Join Angie and Dominic on our first episode as we discuss our interests into all things unsettling and horror-genre related.
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