Holey Sh*t! Review

August 4th, 2009 9:29am Rating:

Reviewed by Rick Kancilja

I paid $30 for this piece of SH*T. I received this in the mail June 2009. I set it up while watching the long drawn out boring DVD of Mark Firman talking about anything and everything except the trick before finally talking about the workings of the trick 20 minutes into the DVD. He's funny and all but I didn't buy a DVD of English Humor. It doesn't work like shown on the DVD. I messed with it for an extremely long time before finally giving up. The flick doesn't work like he shows. Instead of HOLEY SH*T he should have named it PIECE OF SH*T. It's crap! I tried finding an e-mail address for Mark Firman or some way to contact him. There is none. I tried selling it on ebay for half of what I paid for it. No one bought it several weeks in a row. I'm SH*T out of luck. I'll never buy anything again made by Mark Firman. Save your money and buy something else.

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Back in the early 1980s Richard Kaufman, Derek Dingle and Ken Krenzel created Holy P.O.D., a visual version of Alex Elmsley’s classic Point of Departure, from a card change effect idea by Gerard Majax.

And now Pete Firman and Anthony Owen have brought it bang into the 21st century with…

HOLEY SH*T!

"A stunningly visual piece of modern card magic"
- Jeff McBride

"JESUS!"
- Andy Nyman

"This is one of the best vanishes of a single playing card I have ever seen!"
- Marc Paul

"With this trick even I could get a TV series!"
- John Archer

"I've been doing Holy P.O.D. since I first read it in Richard's Almanac. It's one of the hidden gems of card magic and it's a real shame that everyone is about to know about it again thanks to Holy Sh*t! Not only is this an excellent version of this effect, but it completely fooled me the first time I saw it. And the second. And the third. Don't buy it - I want it for myself...."
- Paul Wilson

"Was I surprised? Yes. Was I fooled? Yes. Do I know how he did it? No. Did I make the mistake of betting Pete five bucks that I could dope out the method before he showed me the trick? Yes. Do I have that five bucks? No. Did Pete just call Rocco over to break my legs? Yes."
- David Acer

"Watch it with your fingers on the rewind button because the first time around you'll think you missed something. It really is a fooler. The selected card just disappears and there’s not a steal in sight. Definitely the most baffling version I've seen."
- David Britland

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Comes complete with the special gimmicked Bicycle playing cards and instructional DVD hosted by Pete Firman, star of TV's Monkey Magic, Dirty Tricks, The Secret World of Magic and The Greatest Magic Tricks in the Universe Ever.

Warning: This DVD contains some foul language and may not be appropriate for all audiences

Running Time Approximately 33min