Criss Angel Mindfreak

With the assistance of Hollywood "burn master" Mark Chadwick, Criss attempts to make himself a human candle as a present for his mother on her 70th birthday. In this death-defying performance, Criss sets up a spectacular demonstration where he is set ablaze not once, but twice. First he undergoes a partial body burn test near the Aladdin Hotel pool in Las Vegas that lasts over 20 seconds. Later, on Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas, Criss performs a full 46-second body burn with no hand or face protection. With flames at temperatures above 1500 degrees Celsius shooting 15 feet off of his body, not even Hollywood stunt actors would attempt a trick like this. Criss further mystifies the Las Vegas crowd by disappearing and emerging as one of the crew members putting out the flames on the stuntman's own body.

Attempting to do what is considered impossible by most and what has never been done before, Criss levitates people right off the street.  Levitation is one of the oldest practices of conjurers and fakirs, but Criss Angel takes it to the streets in a 360-degree demonstration of the power of defying gravity.  First Criss will levitate himself and a bystander, leaving only one foot each on the ground at Sunset Park in Las Vegas, demonstrating how it is possible if you believe.  Criss will perform the impossible taking a random stranger off the busy sidewalks of Downtown Fremont Street in Las Vegas and levitate them right in the middle of a crowd.  Criss also goes indoor skydiving and turns a spectator's drawing of a butterfly into a real one.

Determined to go beyond feats performed by his mentor, Criss devises a plan to top Houdini's 1908 milk can escape by locking himself inside a wine barrel filled with water, which hangs more than eight stories above the ground, all while he is bound by handcuffs. In this nail-biting episode, discover the multitude of obstacles Criss must face, including problems with the water temperature, the size of the wine barrel, the amount of time he is physically able to hold his breath under water, and the fact that the barrel is set to plummet to the earth after the two-minute timer runs out.  Also in this episode, Criss will make one couple experience déjà vu.

In this exciting episode, Criss manipulates the ancient practice of lying on a bed of nails to demonstrate a modern version of the same trick, which his predecessors wouldn't have even considered. While most nail-bed demonstrations consist of using short nails spaced a maximum of 1-1/2 inches apart to allow for equal weight distribution, Criss instead uses a nail bed constructed of 8-inch nails, spaced 3 inches apart on which he will lie. Raising the stakes even higher, Criss will direct a Hummer SUV to drive on top of him while he remains laying atop this virtual suicide bed.

With the help of rocker and director Rob Zombie, Criss reenacts his own funeral and attempts one of the most dangerous escape stunts in magic history. The "Buried Alive" demonstration proved fatal for "The Amazing Joe Burras" a magician from Fresno, CA. The stunt was successfully done by Banachek and Lance Burton who both are helping Criss put his own twist on this dangerous exercise. Rob Zombie will manacle Criss into a coffin and help lower him six feet under, on the Santa Clarita haunted house set of Rob's latest film Devil's Rejects in front of a viewing audience. Criss's grave is then filled with earth. With little oxygen and even less time Criss must escape death and slither out of solid ground.