Pants-wettingly good documentary made amidst a blizzard of legal threats and that features one of the creepiest antagonists in recent movies. It started out so innocently. New Zealand journalist David Farrier discovered some wacky internet videos about the “sport” of “competitive tickling”. Amused and seeing an article in it, he sent a Facebook message to Jane O’Brien Media, the American company that made the videos, and requested an interview, only to get turned down because they didn’t want to talk to a homosexual writer. Farrier was less offended by this than he was confused. After all, these tickle videos—which feature young jock-type males tickling each other all over their firm, rippling bodies—struck him as more gay than The Tony Awards. So, Farrier researched further—and ended up poking at the belly of a very weird beast in the form of a wealthy sadist who runs a corner of the “tickle” fetish world with despotic zeal. A pioneer in internet bullying, Jane O’Brien Media put crazy money and energy into ruining the lives of all who crossed them or tried to exit the scene. Their methods included slanderous e-mails to employers, schools and family; carpet-bombing every video-streaming site in the world with fetish videos with the participants’ real names attached and serial killer-like messages in letters and postcards mailed weekly. Meanwhile, no one actually knows anything about the people who run Jane O’Brien Media. Even their employees have never met or seen them. Jane O’Brien Media conduct all business from a cyber distance behind fake (and exclusively female) names. They’re like a modern day Dr. Mabuse. For this movie, David Farrier and colleague Dylan Reeve work to solve the mystery. They travel the US interviewing anyone who will come forward, doing stakeouts, following people, sneaking cameras into any setting they can and having doors slammed in their faces. The audience is there with them the whole time, the third person in the investigation, keeping the edges of our seats good and warm. It’s exciting stuff.