Derren Brown's show on Channel 4 on 6 May 2005 totally blew me awa!
The highlight was where DB had designed an arcade game that would put the right person (apparently 1 in 3 people are susceptible) into a catatonic trance.
The poor sucker who played it was firing a gun at the screen, then after a few strobe flashes from DB and the system programmer, hidden in the next room, the guy slumped over. His friends thought at first he was joking. Then DB came out and put him on hospital trolley. He pushed him along the street and into a building that the game had been based on! It was all lit the same as the game, with an errie, ghostly feel to it. DB then gave him a gun and after hiding himself and the guy's friends in a room, brought him out of the trance.
The look of surprise on his face was nothing to the look of terror when actors dressed up as zombies started appearing!
I was freaked out myself at how "into" it the guy was. AS he fired the gun, special effects made it look the the zombies were really being shot. Unfortunately for him they would get up after a few seconds and go after him again. Eventually he backed himself into a room. Then DB called an end to it, and put him back in a trance. He popped him on the trolley, and whisked him back to the pub where the arcade game was.
His friends stood where they were when the guy went into a trance, and then when DB was hidden away he brought him out of the trance!
A camera crew asked the guy what he thought of their new "proto-type" game, before DB revealed what had happend and showed the guy footage of what he had done!
Easily the freakiest bit of telly I have seen in ages.
Derren Brown's Channel 4 website
and is own site
He's not so popular with Simon Singh
!SR
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