Review of Derren Brown: Messiah (2005) by Ben P — 26 Sep 2011

I do like the idea of this but there is only so much you can do with psychology and mind tricks. I think some of this must be set-up beforehand. To have a room full of sceptics and "convert" all but one of them I didn't really buy.

The only one that is fairly likely is the communicating with the dead. Even this though, which starts with things so vague "Someone who died on a Birthday or anniversary" people will link this to themselves in the most remote ways in an effort to believe.

I would like to see something like this where they get something wrong, "They say you have strange pets?" "I don't have any pets! Your nothing but a phoney!".