New Zealand reporter David Farrier set out to make a light-hearted documentary on “competitive endurance tickling” after discovering a bizarre subculture online, but he stumbled upon something much more sinister while filming this. Full of twists and turns. "Quite something, and not at all what you’d expect." - S.F. Chronicle
"So crazy that it feels like a hoax. Only it’s not." - Entertainment Weekly
"One of those once-in-a-lifetime docs where a story lands in the lap of someone who is smart enough to pick up the thread and start to unravel a tightly knit web of deceit." - The Playlist
"An alarming cautionary tale about how easy it is in the Internet age to ruin people’s lives while hiding behind a cloak of anonymity." - Variety
After stumbling upon a bizarre “competitive endurance tickling” video online, wherein young men are paid to be tied up and tickled, reporter David Farrier reaches out to request a story from the company. But the reply he receives is shocking—the sender mocks Farrier's sexual orientation and threatens extreme legal action should he dig any deeper. So, like any good journalist confronted by a bully, he does just the opposite: he travels to the hidden tickling facilities in Los Angeles and uncovers a vast empire. The more he investigates, the stranger it gets, discovering secret identities and criminal activity. Rated R. 92 minutes.
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