WHO'S THERE?

A fictional interactive horror website used as a prop in a short film. Single static page (index.html), no backend, no tracking, no third-party requests. It never touches the camera, microphone, location, contacts or files.

Runtime

The whole experience is paced to finish under 60 seconds from the START click (about 3.5 s of intro before it). Each answer has a short, silent timer; if a viewer is slow, the site picks for them and speeds up the remaining beats so the run still ends in time.

Production panel (hidden)

• Open / close: ` (backquote) or Ctrl+Alt+P — Esc closes
• Phone: tap the top-left corner 5 times
• URL options: ?film (clean preview mode), ?panel, ?speed=2, ?mode=early|scripted|standard

The very last beat is a short "finale": the screen tears apart (RGB split, slicing, corrupted text) under a rising high-pitched whine (ramped in and volume-capped), then the CRT switches off. It can be disabled in the panel ("Finale") or with the glitch toggle.

Panel: reset, restart website, skip to any question, trigger the creepy section / "Wait." moment / final question / final reveal, change the question sequence, sound on/off, glitch on/off, film preview mode, playback speed, 60-second limit on/off.

Deploy

Static site, no build step. Import the repo in Vercel (Framework Preset: Other, no build command, output directory empty), or run npx vercel --prod. vercel.json adds privacy headers (camera/mic/geolocation denied). Do not enable cleanUrls — it breaks the root route with a prebuilt/CLI deploy.