And in 1990, the inevitable happened: Joe Burrus died filming his attempt at it in front of 150 people. But even nearly a hundred years later, no one has really perfected the trick.Įscapists like Alan Alan, Anthony Britton, and Bill Shirk have had to be rescued trying this. It wouldn't be until 1926, about a decade after he first started kissing Death on the mouth, that he finally figured out how many licks it took to get to the center of the Not-Dying-Doing-A-Stunt Pop. As he rescued damsels and fought robots, he was devising a way to not get, well, buried alive while he purposefully had himself buried alive.
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Here's a clip, if you're desperate to watch someone shriek as they realize both that they have a sharp object in their hand and that their choice of career was a mistake at the same time:īut never one to be beaten by anything that could end up costing him his life, Houdini kept at the project throughout his movie career. When Poloniewicz took co-host Marzena Rogalska by the hand and brought it down, she got to experience The Passion Of The Christ in 3D. That brings us back to the cheerful Polish morning show and its soon-to-be-traumatized audience. To really up the stakes, they may take the hand of a volunteer and shove it down along with their own, with the volunteer's hand at risk of getting impaled first. They're shuffled around behind the magician's back, and the audience holds their breath as the magician then smashes the cups or bags one by one with their bare hand, avoiding the blade or spike. It is then hidden under a paper bag or a flimsy cup, with two other empty bags/cups next to it. The performer shows the audience a knife or a nail that has been placed standing up on a table. You may have heard of these various pseudonyms for it: the Hidden Spike Trick, the Nail Under the Cup Trick, or more ominously, Russian Roulette. Poloniewicz, styled like a children's entertainer played by Bobcat Goldthwait, was going do a close-up trick that's a morbid riff on Three-Card Monte.
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4 Magicians Keep Impaling Their Hands On Live TVĮverything seemed cool on the day Poland's Got Talent semifinalist Marcin Poloniewicz went on the series Question For Breakfast to perform a little magic.
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