Turn your house intohaunted CCTV footage.

One photo. Three steps.

This is a real one: a phone photo, the night camera we make from it, and a clip filmed on that camera.

Your photo in. Your camera out.

We lift the camera to the ceiling corner like a real CCTV camera, turn the lights down, and take every person and pet out of the picture, so the room is empty and ready for something to happen. Drag the line.

YOUR PHOTOYOUR CAMERA

YOUR PHOTOYOUR CAMERA

YOUR PHOTOYOUR CAMERA

Before it plans a thing, it reads your room

We find every door, window and gap in each picture, and what is in the room, at what size. From that come the rules: what can come in where, and what must never happen. Nothing walks through a wall, and whatever walks past a window or a doorway is seen at each one.

ABOUT THIS SCENE

SEES

brick-paved walking path, tall redwood trunks, low log railing, metal drain grate across path, small wooden bridge with railings, lamp post with glowing head, needle-covered sloping banks, mossy rocks

WAYS IN AND OUT

path towards the far bridge, path behind the camera (off frame), forest slopes between trees

WON'T HAPPEN

nobody walks through tree trunks; no one climbs through the log railing faster than possible; it is a solid rail; no doors or buildings appear in the forest; the path cannot change direction or widen

CAM 02 · FOREST PATH

SCARE · 18S LOOP

NOW · 0.0S

The empty brick path runs straight between the redwoods to the small wooden bridge under the glowing distant lamp post; nothing moves.

The distant lamp post flickers twice and dims to a faint glow; the overhanging branches at top centre go completely still and the ferns at the back edges stop rustling.

A huge hunched figure, twice the height of the bridge rails, lurches out of the dark forest slope between the trunks on the far left near the mossy rocks, its long arms hanging so low its knuckles scrape the needles.

The brute steps onto the brick path just this side of the bridge, knuckles dragging furrows through the needles, pulling something heavy behind it.

It crosses the full width of the path in three heavy strides, pausing in the centre to turn its pale, eyeless head slowly towards the camera; its eyes do not reflect the infrared light at all.

It turns away and heaves itself up the right bank between the trunks, beyond the end of the log railing, never passing through the railing.

The last of it vanishes between the redwood trunks into the dark on the right; the ferns there sway hard, then slow; two drag marks fade from the needles on the path.

The lamp post glows steadily again and the empty path, trunks, railing and bridge sit exactly as at the start, still and quiet.

This is the real storyboard this clip was filmed from. Tap any beat to jump to it.

2. 0.0SThe empty brick path runs straight between the redwoods to the small wooden bridge under the glowing distant lamp post; nothing moves.
3. 2.0SThe distant lamp post flickers twice and dims to a faint glow; the overhanging branches at top centre go completely still and the ferns at the back edges stop rustling.
4. 4.0SA huge hunched figure, twice the height of the bridge rails, lurches out of the dark forest slope between the trunks on the far left near the mossy rocks, its long arms hanging so low its knuckles scrape the needles.
5. 7.0SThe brute steps onto the brick path just this side of the bridge, knuckles dragging furrows through the needles, pulling something heavy behind it.
6. 10.0SIt crosses the full width of the path in three heavy strides, pausing in the centre to turn its pale, eyeless head slowly towards the camera; its eyes do not reflect the infrared light at all.
7. 12.5SIt turns away and heaves itself up the right bank between the trunks, beyond the end of the log railing, never passing through the railing.
8. 15.0SThe last of it vanishes between the redwood trunks into the dark on the right; the ferns there sway hard, then slow; two drag marks fade from the needles on the path.
9. 18.0SThe lamp post glows steadily again and the empty path, trunks, railing and bridge sit exactly as at the start, still and quiet.

The storyboard is written against those rules, beat by beat, and you can watch every clip with its plan in your control room. If a clip breaks a rule, a second pair of eyes sends it back before it reaches your monitor.

You choose how scary

One slider, five levels: from a light that flickers and a door that eases open, up to something huge in plain view that makes people step back from the TV. Set it for the whole monitor, then change any single camera. There is no gore at any level.

A family party? Start at Eerie. A haunted attraction? Go all the way.

A real security room, not a video loop

Real scale, real physics

People are the right size for the camera's height. They walk in one way and out another. Nothing vanishes into thin air.

Stories across cameras

Something walks past the front door, then the hallway, then the stairs. The monitor follows it, like a guard would.

A power cut

Every screen drops to VIDEO LOSS. One camera comes back on battery. Then the lights come on everywhere, in the same frame.

Night vision

Press NIGHT and the dark cameras switch to infrared: black and white, flat shadows, a pool of IR light.

It never repeats back to back

A director picks every clip. The quiet ones fill the gaps, scares are spaced out, and the best one comes round more often.

Signal drops, motion alarms

Cameras drop to NO SIGNAL, flag MOTION DETECTED, run low on battery. Small lies that make it feel real.

Put it on a screen people walk past

Your monitor is a private link that runs in any browser, built for every screen: laptops, desktop computers, TVs, monitors, iPads, tablets and phones. Put it wherever people will see it. The bigger the screen and the more people walk past it, the better it works.

The TV

Laptop or desktop

iPad or tablet

Phone, on its side

Questions