One of the most popular and successful films at this years Sydney Film Festival was a doco called ‘Tickled’.
It follows a journalist who attempted to do a quirky profile on the world of ‘Competitive Endurance Tickling’ (sounds hilarious, right?!), but instead accidentally uncovers a seedy underground filled with lies, manipulation, threats, cyberbullying, paedophilic implications and much, much more.
Sound really fucking weird? It is, and the film ends up being as terrifying as a big-budget psychological thriller. Watch the trailer below, so you can grasp how absolutely bizarre this story is. Seriously, you won’t regret it:
So, filmmakers David Farrier and Dylan Reeve uncovered this insane private world, and are now obviously getting mad heat from the company who became the subjects of the doco. We suppose when you’re doing weeeeird shit like this underground, that means you’re trying to keep it secret, no?
There was a lawsuit to stop the film going to air last year, which was dismissed. The two men who own the company behind the fetish website, David D’Amato and Kevin Clarke, are fighting to save the reputation of their bizarre website.
The premiere for ‘Tickled’ was held in Los Angeles this weekend. D’Amato and Clarke rocked up, saw the film, then hassled Reeve during the Q&A, accusing him of using footage that was allegedly off-the-record.
The Q&A was filmed live for ‘Tickled”s Facebook page, so it’s in their official page in full. Let’s face it – the subject’s consistent denial of recorded footage only adds to the film’s narrative.
Source: Facebook.
Photo: Youtube.
