Movie:tickled

  • NewsKevin Polowy

    Fetishists, Threats, and Film Fests: The Wild Tale Behind the Buzzy New Documentary 'Tickled'

    As a reporter for New Zealand’s TV3,, Farrier once interviewed a man in Florida who had a 9-month sexual relationship with a dolphin. Farrier quit his job at TV3 as the documentary became all-consuming (“Suddenly I found doing two-minute stories on the news became repetitive and a bit boring,” he said).

  • NewsKevin Polowy

    Sundance Report: Fascinating Documentary 'Tickled' Exposes True-Life Tickle Monster

    The Sundance documentary Tickled — summarized with the logline “a New Zealand reporter accidentally stumbles upon an underground competitive tickling contest” — sounded like a barrel of laughs. Instead David Farrier and Dylan Reeve’s fascinating film reveals a dark and ominous tickling world ruled by a shadowy and sinister creep who shall hereby be known as the real-life Tickle Monster. You just can’t make this stuff up, which is exactly what makes Tickled a must-see documentary.