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What The Media Has
Said:
"Tim Cridland uses his immense
knowledge of the human anatomy to endure the seemingly unbearable
but there's no doubt his ability to block out the pain is
superhuman."
-- Stan Lee on Stan Lee's
Superhumans on The History Channel.
"You may be surprised about what this man
can teach you"
-- Dan Rather
"Zamora is an icon in the modern day
sideshow community. Cridland was among those who led the rebirth of
the sideshow act, this time instead of touring with circuses, the
show wed itself with the rock and roll scene."
-- Reportage by Getty
Images 02-01-2010
"A regular guy who does irregular
things."
-- 48 Hours
"Anyone who voluntarily lays his moist, twitching
tongue across red hot glowing metal rebar gets our vote for loco
rematado of the year. That's how Zamora The Torture King
rolls..."
-- The Phoenix New Times
03-June-2010
"Zamora the Torture King has all manner of grotesque
yet fascinating tricks in his repertoire, but he is best known for
pushing sharp skewers through various muscles such as the bicep.
His control of mind over matter reportedly allows him to be pressed
into a bed of nails under 1,000 pounds of weight; eat a broken
light bulb; and swallow a long string and then surgically remove it
with a small incision below his ribcage."
-- New Times Columbia, SC
02-24-2010
"You can file this one under: Weird but Highly
Entertaining..." "If Neil Young were the godfather of grunge, then
Tim Cridland, aka Zamora the Torture King, might just be the
godfather of the modern circus sideshow. But the comparison might
be a little more accurate if Neil Young had played lead guitar in
Soundgarden, which is the equivalent of what Zamora has been doing
in the alternative circus business since the early 1990s when he
helped form the infamous Jim Rose Circus..."
-- The Source Weekly Bend,
OR 09-June-2010
"The Torture King's act was better-executed than Jim
Rose's .... Zamora seemed much more in control and treated his
audience maturely."
-- Uptown Weekly Winnipeg,
Canada
"In 2006, back when Zamora (real name Tim Cridland)
had a stage show in Vegas, doctors in an ABC News report theorized
that a genetic mutation had left him immune to pain. Zamora says he
feels pain; he just doesn't let it control him. He's a
contemplative fellow, lean and ascetic, garbed in simple dark
cotton clothes and split-toed ninja shoes. Shoulder-length graying
hair frames a worn, rawboned face that inclines more toward
thoughtful scowls than glittering smiles. From an early age, he
viewed pain responses as learned behavior and chose to adopt
stoicism. He studied pain management and spontaneous healing and
believes he has trained his body to repair itself
rapidly."
-- The Oklahoman Oklahoma
City 01-27-2010
"Acts like Zamora The Torture King made one producer
giddily describe the show [Lollapolooza] as 'kind of like
Disneyland.'"
-- People
Magazine
"For the better part of the past 20 years, Tim
Cridland has been driving sharp skewers into his tongue and pushing
them out through his neck, chewing on shards of glass, using his
body to conduct electricity and walking barefoot across a bed of
razor-sharp knives. All in a day's work for Zamora, the Torture
King. The 46 year old Cridland is a veteran of the contemporary
American sideshow circuit. He also has a regular gig in Las Vegas,
and has written a couple of books on freakeries, oddities and the
darker aspects of the thrilling performance arts."
-- Connect Savannah
01-12-2010
"With last week's appearance by the
Hellzapoppin Circus Sideshow, the Wormhole Bar had its best-ever
night - it was standing-room-only to see Zamora, the Torture
King."
-- Connect Savannah
01-19-2010
"Dr. Joshua Prager was amazed when he saw the
pain-defying performer known as Zamora. 'He stuck a spike through
his face -- through his mouth and it went right through his chin,'
said Prager, director of the Center for the Rehabilitation of Pain
Syndromes at the University of California at Los Angeles. 'It was
fascinating.'"
-- ABC News
"Cridland insists he is not an illusionist and
credits "a disciplined mind and meditative techniques" for getting
him through the ordeal.
His performance art may shock and awe his cool urban audiences, but
it's his theories on pain management that intrigue..."
-- The Toronto Star Oct
11, 2007
"Cridland startled journalists by piercing a long
skewer under his tongue and letting it pop out from under his chin.
Amazingly, there was no sign of blood or trauma throughout the
demonstration."
-- Star Central
Malasia
"...Zamora the Torture King, a Las Vegas-based
performer who has entertained (and disturbed) audiences for years
with his peculiar brand of showmanship.... Zamora's tolerance for
pain was tested by Dr. Joshua Prager of the UCLA School of
Medicine. According to Prager, Zamora's ability to withstand pain
was 'off the charts,'..."
-- Benjamin Radford writing in The Skeptical
Inquirer Nov/Dec 2008
WHAT PEOPLE IN SHOW BUSINESS HAVE
SAID
"Known all
over the world as one of the most complete sideshow performers in
history."
-- Jim Rose of The
Jim Rose Circus Sideshow.
"The best
there is, the best there was, the best that there will ever be... a
true living legend."
-- Show promoter Doug
Higley writing in Circus Report
"The only
show of its kind in the world. Truly out-of-this-world."
--
Ormond McGill, author of The Encyclopedia of
Stage Hypnotism.
WHAT SCIENTISTS HAVE
SAID
"He is able to change
what he experiences. Its not that the stimuli is not there, it's
that the way that he processes them is different than you or I
would."
-- Joshua Prager, MD of
The UCLA Pain Medicine Center.
"As a
scientist, it's a fascinating phenomenon."
-- Dr. Kenneth
Pelletier, Stanford University Medical
Center.
"The way
you control your body's neurology is very fascinating. I think you
have a lot to offer to the science community. I think it's
completely amazing."
-- Dr. Josh
Handts, New York City
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