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Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on September 1st, 2003
I didn't like this DVD very much. There were four effects that I liked and one of them didn't even work for me(Stabbed). I will go through each of the effects for you.

Pencil through Cheek-The best effect on the DVD. Check out the demo. It is non-gimmicked.

Bowling-This is pretty good too. It's also in the demo. The bag isn't inspectable.

Pin Head-Nice. This is very real-looking. You put a towel over your head and deflate it with a big pin.

Stabbed-You poke a paperclip in your arm. Great idea, but when I tried it, it didn't work.

Lit-Pretty dumb. You take a ciggarette and poke it in your ear and on your tongue.

Take-out -This isn't even a trick. He bends over in an alley and comes up with a rat in his mouth. He swallows it. It is the worst effect on the DVD.

Spike through tongue part 1-Very nice idea. Look at the demo.
Spike through tongue part 2-This is so easy to figure out. (That's why it is not on the demo.) He pokes a spike through his tongue, rips it out, then eats his tongue.

Lunch for cthuhlu-It's okay. A person could figure out some, though. He eats a ciggarette, a razor blade, some thumbtacks, and a candle that he lights before eating it.

Geek!!!-This is easy to figure out and stupid. He bites the head off of a rubber chicken, leaving blood on his face, then he blows the head back on.

Bed of thumbtacks-He lays on a bed of thumbtacks without hurting himself. He doesn't teach you how to do this.

Bob Roach:Psychic Entertainer- A fake roach tries to find a card that you picked on a board with numbers and suits. He fails, and you squash him on the board. When you open it, the guts of the roach spell out the card. I figured it out the first time I saw it, but it might work for you.

Brain Damage-He pokes three umbrellas through a box on his head. Has a nice secret.

Overall,I think that Andrew Mayne came up with a few good effects, then threw in some junky ones to complete the DVD. If I had known all this about the DVD before, I wouldn't have bought it.

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