Tickled

Captivating and jaw-dropping … Farrier’s dry Kiwi humour infuses the proceedings with a relaxed energy that somehow makes the underlying tension all the more effective.

– Sheri Linden in a Hollywood Reporter review, 24 January 2016

Over the course of two years it took the pair [David Farrier and Dylan Reeve] through some murky and harrowing territory — legal threats, bullying and unsavoury characters — and now it has brought them to a place of great joy.

– 26 January 2016 Stuff article on reaction to Tickled at the Sundance Film Festival

You started this fight. I didn't. You were the ones that decided this is what you were going to do. You mocked us ... so let me make a point here: if you want to stick your head in a blast furnace, do it.

– Jane O'Brien Media representative Kevin Clarke, after David Farrier says he has been getting legal threats from the company

I wake up every morning to a message from Jane O'Brien Media, who you guys work for, with a list of various personal attacks and also legal threats.

– David Farrier in a meeting with representatives of Jane O'Brien Media

...turns into a surprisingly tense and increasingly weird detective story ... Tickled is unexpectedly compelling, alternately painful and funny and deeply sad.

– Reviewer Lee Marshall, in Screen International, 25 January 2016

...a piece of advice though, I mean just kind of off the record, between us: take the lawsuit seriously, because there's a lot of money ... whatever you plan to do is actually gonna be worth the trouble that this person is probably going to put you through.

– A representative of Jane O'Brien Media advises David Farrier

Some storytellers get lucky (well, sort-of lucky) when a scoop turns out to be hotter than they thought ... In this case, filmmakers [David] Farrier and [Dylan] Reeve are in for much more than they expected. The shocking truth is uncomfortably pursued to its fullest, and the result is a riveting piece of investigative journalism.

– Reviewer Darian Lusk on American website Observer, 24 March 2017