Smooshed is a sword box illusion goes wrong and the magician ends up crushing his assistant. The audience thinks she is in the stairs, especially when they start walking and her pops out. But then the sides fall open and they can see it was all a mechanical illusion. At this moment the assistant appears in the audience.
Created by Scott & Muriel in 1999, it was the final illusion in Scott & Muriel's Grand Prix winning FISM act in Lisbon, Portugal, 2000.