Price$15.00
Media TypeDVD
CategoryBizarre, Mentalism
Date AddedJan 22, 2019
COLD LUNCH
Dan Sperry
(Based on 1 review)
Dan Sperry now shares his paranormal presentation on the "Out to Lunch" concept. Included is everything you need to perform BOTH of these eerie versions:
SPIRIT PHOTO ROUTINE
Magician shows a stack of spirit photos with ectoplasm coming out of the medium's mouth. After a quick history of spirit photography is explained (just Google it), the magician points out something particularly strange. Even though it was all fake, when these photos would get developed, things that weren't originally there would appear in the photos!
He then removes one of the photo cards from the stack and shows 6 Zodiac signs on their back sides. The spectator is asked to name a number between 1 and 6, say for example 4. The magician counts over to the 4th sign and has the spectator remember what that sign looks like - making a mental picture of it in their mind. Next, the spectator holds the card between their hands and after a few moments and some clever drama from the magician, they open their hands to see that the image of the Zodiac sign they chose has now mysteriously appeared within the ectoplasm coming out of the medium's mouth in the photo where, moments earlier, it was not there.
FARM HOUSE ROUTINE
Magician shows a stack of photos of his great grandparents' old farm house and tells of how, 6 months after they had bought the farm, it mysteriously burned to the ground. The magician's great grandmother would always blame it on the shadowy man she claimed she could see standing in doorways... walking down halls... or even saw in windows watching her as she worked in the garden. The magician then says he wonders whether the spectator can possibly possess any psychic abilities and figure out what time of the year the house burnt down.
He then removes one of the photos from the stack and shows that there are 6 Zodiac signs on its back side - one of them is the correct one. He asks the spectator to name any number one to 6, for example 3. After spelling out the word THREE, the spectator is asked to BURN the image of the chosen Zodiac sign into their memory and hold the photo card between their hands. After a few moments, they think they start to feel some heat. They open their hands to show that the image of the farmhouse has changed -- it appears to be on fire with a shadowy man standing in the foreground. The image of their chosen Zodiac sign - which happens to be the right one - is now burned into the image on the card!
Reviews
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This is an out to lunch type effect. I like Out to Lunch principle, so I thought that Dan Sperry might have come up with something spooky and interesting.
The themes are interesting. There are two effects. One is a spirit photo routine. In this version the reveal is a photo of a medium spitting out some ectoplasm to reveal a chosen symbol. The other effect is a Farm House Routine. In this one the reveal is a mysterious figure and the chosen symbol standing next to a farmhouse.
The stories are OK and mysterious enough.
The props however are sub par. You get twenty reveal cards for each effect to hand out if so desired. There are supposed to be three gimmick cards of each effect that you need to cut up. My package only had two of each. It say that elastics are included. My package did not have the elastics. Neither omissions really matter. What is more concerning is that the spirit photo reveal is very unclear in its depiction of the symbol that was chosen. The farm is a bit better.
The instructions are in a nice little booklet. I happen to like written instructions. However there are some errors in the explanation of the "hot rod" force that is needed to force the symbol. I don't like the force at all for this effect. It feels unnatural and, well, forced.
Sperry also describes how to set up the stack of cards. He goes into quite an elaborate description to construct an envelope type flap to hold the cards. In my opinion this is totally unnecessary.
All in all if you like out to lunch type of effects, this could be an interesting version for Halloween. If only the photos on the cards were clearer.