The movie's Web site was designed to convince potential moviegoers that it was a true story about three young filmmakers who vanished in the woods while shooting a documentary about a legendary witch. The Bangalore World University Web site, for instance, is so amazingly real that it comes complete with a drop-down menu, a search feature, news releases and list of university departments. It's treating this mystery as though it's the real thing. They've done a good job of making the sites look authentic. The game sites present a chilling picture of a futuristic world in which robots are intelligent, feeling beings, and humans are at odds over whether robots should have full rights or remain enslaved.
Game players solve a difficult chemistry puzzle to find the coroner's Web site.
They must enlarge a photo of Chan wearing his employee I.D. badge to get the number so they can gain access to his private e-mails at work. Characters in the game e-mail them, fax them and even leave phone messages. Stoehr received a fax confirming an order for a robot. And he regularly gets e-mails from characters. How all this relates to the movie is the subject of intense speculation.