Derren Brown, star of Channel 4’s ‘Trick or Treat’ has posted a ‘Scayrecrow‘ review on www.thesmalls.com:
“Absolutely love it, and in awe at the amount of painstaking work involved. Hugely captivating. Thank you.”
If you look carefully (and I mean carefully) you’ll spot Derren in the final graveyard scene at the end of Penny Dreadful 1: ‘The Vampire’.
The following Derren Brown Bio is taken from his official site:
‘Derren was born in 1971 in Croydon. It was a difficult birth: his mother was in Devon at the time. A precocious and puzzling only child for some years, he liked to paint, foster obsessive habits, and once set fire to a neighbour’s boat by accident…
In 1999 he was asked by what was then Channel 4 to put a mind-reading programme together for people’s televisions. A year later…at Christmas, ‘Derren Brown: Mind Control, with Derren Brown’ quite literally aired. It was an immediate success, and gained Derren a cool, underground kudos which he described as “not enough”.
In October 2003 Derren caused an international furore with ‘Derren Brown Plays Russian Roulette Live’. This secured his notoriety with the public and his big apartment in London.
The Seance followed soon after, which was Derren’s first look at the area of spiritualism and paranormal phenomena, and the first show where his intelligent scepticism could be expressed. Derren says of the show, “By now I was properly famous and could pretty much buy whatever I wanted”. Further specials have followed, including ‘Messiah’, which took him undercover to the US to see if leaders in paranormal belief systems would wrongly endorse him as the real thing.
Since then he gets several letters of complaint a week from psychics and Christians. He is sensitive to everyone’s objections, but knows that at least the latter group will forgive him. His workload keeps him exhausted and irritable 52 weeks a year, and he continues to live in London with a large collection of taxidermy and two rather fatalistic parrots, where he spends any free weekends painting.’