Derren Brown: The Heist (2006 TV Special)
10/10
Chilling... a real life Manchurian Candidate
17 August 2010
Warning: Spoilers
This is the most frightening thing I've seen on TV since Threads.

Brown proves once again that you can scoop a bunch of people off the streets and make them do pretty much anything. In this case he takes a bunch of suits and turns them into violent, ruthless criminals within a matter of weeks. The techniques are more "superliminal" than subliminal, and seem pretty transparent to us, the audience, yet Brown's "victims" really do act out the scenario, time and again. Three out of four norms pulled the heist.

Hypnotism, mind control, whatever you want to call it - it really works! A thought provoking and frightening example of real-life brainwashing in action.
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