This documentary film tells the story of a journalist from New Zealand, who stumbles upon a curious video about "competitive tickling". As he investigates the motives behind the company making such videos, he gets untoward attention from the company's lawyers. The company's intentions are seemingly sinister, and hence the journalist decides to make an expose."Tickled" tells a thrilling real life horror story that script writers can't even make up.It convincingly tells a story with many live interviews from poor men who have been involved, and their lives severely affected by the videos. It feel sorry for them.

Sometimes when i'm bored i'll watch porn with a really long introduction so i become attached to the people in the video and this is basically what that is, if you have a weird sadistic fetish like me you'll probably find your fingers getting kinda sticky within this documentary and that's a good thing. most of the footage is good quality so if your a cinophile that'll be ticking(tickling) your boxes and if you haven't yet picked up a kink for tickling then you're about to.In all seriousness this actually a very good little film and i really enjoyed it. but anyway in the words of my dwarf god "yer makin' a chicken out of a feather" and i don't know what that means but oh dear lord do i want to have torbjorns 20 children right ow.(((im really sorry god please don't hold this against me)))

There won't be spoilers until after the third paragraph, so read the first two if you haven't seen the film yet."Tickled" is funny, weird, depressing, uncomfortable, intense, and one of the most unbelievable true stories I have ever seen. After seeing it, I just honestly don't know what to say.To start, the score is fantastic and heightens every moment of the film. Whether it be absolutely hilarious, or incredibly harrowing, each scene wouldn't be the same without the score. While the subject of a documentary is probably the most important part - and, believe me, this is a fantastic subject - I believe the editing is the second most important, because while they don't have time to stage scenes or dialogue, the editing is always deliberate, and in this case, the film is wonderfully edited and never stops moving.Now, the rest of this film is hard to talk about without sort of ruining it for those who haven't seen it, so I'm gonna put a big SPOILER WARNING! right about here.David Farrier is a popular journalist in New Zealand that specializes in quirky, strange stories. After seeing a montage of some of his other stories towards the beginning, it seems a competitive tickling competition would fit right in. However, suddenly, David is being attacked by the supposed owner of this organization. What he begins to uncover is surprising revelation after surprising revelation, which slowly unravels until an entire underground, almost fight club-esque circuit of tickling fetishism is revealed, all run by a single man on a massive power trip with nothing to stop him. It is absolutely incredible journalism that digs deeper and deeper until a small, insecure human is revealed behind endless layers of lies and deceit. This is one of the best films of 2016.

New Zealand journalist David Farrier came upon the strange phenomena of competitive endurance tickling when searching online for new avenues to write articles on. He duly contacted the group who organised it, Jane O'Brien Media, but was met with a volley of abuse. After some to-ing and fro-ing they sent over representatives to Auckland to meet Farrier and his fellow film-maker, which only led to further threats. This bullying encouraged the two film-makers to go to the United States to try and find out more about what dark forces were behind this seemingly innocuous, if somewhat bizarre, online activity.Tickled has been described as the new Catfish (2010) and not entirely without justification. It shares the concept of a documentary following a mystery route where strange secrets are uncovered. In this one an enigmatic empire seems to lie behind the world of tickling, which is really not a competitive endurance based activity at all but an odd sexual fetish. It turns out it is harmless enough to get many young men involved when there is a cash incentive but embarrassing enough to cause them many problems when these tickle videos begin to be posted everywhere online by the media group who own them. The videos are used in this way as a means of ensuring the men comply with the demands of the mysterious leader Jane O'Brien, if the boys refuse to do more work then the videos are posted everywhere with their real names attached to them. The film-makers soon discovered that most of these young men were consequently too afraid to speak out but one or two individuals do talk and detail the levels of blackmail, bullying and exploitation they have had to endure. There group behind it seem to be as much interested in power and control, as they are in their sexual fetish. The investigation begins in the earliest days of the internet and continues to the present day. There is a big reveal late on but it's best not to say too much about it.It could probably be argued that, while this one has a very interesting premise, it doesn't necessarily wrap things up as strongly as it might. By the end it feels like there are still more questions than answers. Still, this is an interesting and strange story and despite one or two flaws, it's one that makes for fascinating viewing.