[
    {
        "subGenre": "Demons",
        "scene": "Burnt chapel where charred pews frame a sigil scorched into the altar",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Burnt chapel where charred pews frame a sigil scorched into the altar",
            "Hanging chandeliers half-molten",
            "Ash drifting in columned shafts of light",
            "A bible singed at the corners",
            "A blackened cross leaning against a wall"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Ash swirls to form transient symbols above the altar",
            "Candles reignite in a slow counter-clockwise sweep",
            "A distant voice intones a name with increasing resonance",
            "A charred page lifts and flips though no wind blows"
        ],
        "camera": "Low aisle crawl toward the altar with occasional tight rack-focus on ember details",
        "accents": [
            "hot ember micro-highlights on singed surfaces",
            "ashy rim micro-highlights defining char edges"
        ],
        "mood": "simmering dread",
        "lighting": "muted daylight through smoke with ember pockets",
        "style": "ritual aftermath"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Demons",
        "scene": "Subway tunnel where graffiti shifts into faces and a train hums without arrival",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Subway tunnel where graffiti shifts into faces and a train hums without arrival",
            "Flickering station lights and wet platform tiles",
            "A discarded ticket between rails",
            "An empty carriage reflected in a puddle",
            "Tunnel vents breathing warm breath"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Graffiti inks crawl to form mouths that whisper",
            "Platform speakers hiss out syllables that trace names",
            "A handprint appears on a glass screen from the inside",
            "A subway map rearranges to show places that don't exist"
        ],
        "camera": "Steadicam lateral reveal with peephole-style inserts into reflective puddles",
        "accents": [
            "neon micro-highlights on wet tiles",
            "spray-paint micro-highlights catching brief glints"
        ],
        "mood": "urban intrusion",
        "lighting": "cold artificial with deep tunnel shadow",
        "style": "infrastructure uncanny"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Demons",
        "scene": "Deserted carnival midway where calliope music plays backwards and mirrors breathe",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Deserted carnival midway where calliope music plays backwards and mirrors breathe",
            "Tilted Ferris wheel casting long shadows",
            "Torn banners snapping in still air",
            "A game stall with a line of unclaimed prizes",
            "An ornate mirror framed with tarnished bulbs"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Prize dolls turn their heads in sequence",
            "Calliope notes rewind in the air leaving visible echoes",
            "Mirrors exhale fog that forms miniature shapes",
            "A carousel horse slowly turns its head to look directly at camera"
        ],
        "camera": "Wide to intimate dolly with mirror-reversal inserts",
        "accents": [
            "bulb micro-highlights with minor flicker variance",
            "paint micro-highlights on carousel surfaces"
        ],
        "mood": "twisted nostalgia",
        "lighting": "dim fairground glow with color aberration",
        "style": "surreal nocturnal"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Demons",
        "scene": "Rural barn where lurid symbols appear on hay bales and shadows crawl along beams",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Rural barn where lurid symbols appear on hay bales and shadows crawl along beams",
            "Old farm tools arrayed against a wall",
            "A broken lantern with sputtering flame",
            "A child's drawing pinned to a post",
            "A back door open to a black field"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Symbols sear themselves into straw then smolder away",
            "Shadows lengthen into hand-like shapes that deliberately point",
            "A lantern's light warps to show another interior",
            "Straw drifts into a pattern resembling a face"
        ],
        "camera": "Handheld low-angle between bales with ceiling-beam parallax",
        "accents": [
            "straw micro-highlights on cut edges",
            "metal micro-highlights on old tools"
        ],
        "mood": "rural menace",
        "lighting": "warm lantern pockets within cool night",
        "style": "rustic occult"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Demons",
        "scene": "Corporate office after hours where monitors display static faces and elevators descend to nowhere",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Corporate office after hours where monitors display static faces and elevators descend to nowhere",
            "A wall of muted screens showing empty desks",
            "A coffee cup still warm on a keyboard",
            "A row of ID badges left on a table",
            "A ticker-screen looping names"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Monitors stitch together a single moving visage",
            "Elevator dings and its doors open onto blackness",
            "A blinking cursor types a single phrase repeatedly",
            "Phones vibrate though no notifications exist"
        ],
        "camera": "Clean linear push through cubicles with monitor-level inserts",
        "accents": [
            "screen micro-highlights on pixel clusters",
            "glass micro-highlights on office surfaces"
        ],
        "mood": "bureaucratic unease",
        "lighting": "cool office fluorescents with monitor glow",
        "style": "corporate uncanny"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Demons",
        "scene": "A seaside pier at low tide where carved figures drip with black tide and call silently",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "A seaside pier at low tide where carved figures drip with black tide and call silently",
            "Barnacled railings and warped boards",
            "A tipped fishing crate leaking oil-like film",
            "Seagulls circling without sound",
            "A lighthouse far off blinking erratically"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Figures' carved mouths open to release a slow, viscous drip",
            "Tide carries tiny shapes that rearrange into letters",
            "Wooden boards creak into a sequence like a language",
            "A distant lighthouse blink synchronizes with heartbeats"
        ],
        "camera": "Low pier-level tracking with telephoto compression on distant lighthouse",
        "accents": [
            "wet wood micro-highlights",
            "oil-sheen micro-highlights on tide pools"
        ],
        "mood": "coastal dread",
        "lighting": "pale shoreline light with murky reflections",
        "style": "marine uncanny"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Demons",
        "scene": "Night school auditorium where the stage curtain moves to reveal empty seats full of shadows",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Night school auditorium where the stage curtain moves to reveal empty seats full of shadows",
            "Rows of polished wooden seats",
            "A score sheet pinned to a piano",
            "A forgotten trophy cabinet dimly lit",
            "A single stage light left on"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Curtain pulls aside slowly though no one touches it",
            "Shadows in seats shift to mimic applause without sound",
            "A score page flips to a new arrangement by itself",
            "Trophies fog with breath-like mist showing names"
        ],
        "camera": "Center-stage push with audience-level inserts and shallow depth",
        "accents": [
            "polished wood micro-highlights",
            "metallic micro-highlights on trophy surfaces"
        ],
        "mood": "performative haunting",
        "lighting": "single spotlight with deep auditorium shadow",
        "style": "theatrical uncanny"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Demons",
        "scene": "Forest clearing where trees bleed a black sap and footprints invert reality",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Forest clearing where trees bleed a black sap and footprints invert reality",
            "Sap-slick trunks and hanging lichen",
            "A hollow stump housing tiny candles",
            "An overturned pack near a clump of toadstools",
            "A sky glimpsed through the canopy showing impossible stars"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Sap droplets fall and grow into small crawling shapes",
            "Footprints appear to sink into the air rather than the ground",
            "Toadstools shift to orient toward an unseen center",
            "Sky reflections in puddles show upside-down constellations"
        ],
        "camera": "Low natural tracking with macro inserts on sap and footprint inversion",
        "accents": [
            "sap micro-highlights on viscous surfaces",
            "fungus micro-highlights reflecting tiny detail"
        ],
        "mood": "ecological wrongness",
        "lighting": "cool forest fill with alien highlights",
        "style": "nature-corrupt vignette"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Demons",
        "scene": "Suburban kitchen where a dinner table holds extra place settings for invisible guests",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Suburban kitchen where a dinner table holds extra place settings for invisible guests",
            "A child's drawing taped to the fridge",
            "A kettle steaming though no one tends it",
            "A pair of shoes missing from their usual spot",
            "A muted TV showing static with a single clear face"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Utensils clink in rhythmic cadence like someone eating",
            "Chairs rock in empty intervals",
            "A napkin folds itself into a small origami shape",
            "A faint scent of unfamiliar perfume wafts through"
        ],
        "camera": "Table-level static with slow rotating inserts on settings",
        "accents": [
            "ceramic micro-highlights on plates",
            "fabric micro-highlights on napkin folds"
        ],
        "mood": "domestic unease",
        "lighting": "warm kitchen glow with peripheral chill",
        "style": "home-invasion uncanny"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Demons",
        "scene": "Highway rest stop at midnight where road signs point to impossible towns and smoke writes names",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Highway rest stop at midnight where road signs point to impossible towns and smoke writes names",
            "A diner neon flickering off-schedule",
            "A lone truck idling with its driver seat empty",
            "A gas pump frozen mid-count",
            "A map pinned with routes that loop impossibly"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Smoke from an exhaust curls to spell out a single word and then disperses",
            "Signs rotate to reveal new destinations tuned to the viewer's memory",
            "Truck headlights flick on and off as if blinking",
            "The map redraws itself in wet ink"
        ],
        "camera": "Wide roadside approach with long lens compression on signs",
        "accents": [
            "neon micro-highlights on diner glass",
            "metal micro-highlights on pump nozzles"
        ],
        "mood": "transient wrongness",
        "lighting": "cold highway sodium with neon puncta",
        "style": "liminal travel dread"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Demons",
        "scene": "A cathedral bell tower where the bells toll but no ringer is found and shadows climb the rope",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "A cathedral bell tower where the bells toll but no ringer is found and shadows climb the rope",
            "Narrow stone stair winding up",
            "Rotted rope coils on the floor",
            "A view of the city from the belfry",
            "A weathered ledger of past bell tolls"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Bells toll in a non-linear cadence that causes floor dust to pattern itself",
            "Shadows climb the ropes like living things",
            "Ledger pages flip to mark a new name each toll",
            "A pigeon silhouette pins itself to a distant roof then dissolves"
        ],
        "camera": "Vertical climb with rope-level closeups and bell-wide pulls",
        "accents": [
            "stone micro-highlights on bell yokes",
            "metal micro-highlights on bell rims"
        ],
        "mood": "sacred dread",
        "lighting": "high contrast with sky backlight",
        "style": "ecclesiastical uncanny"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Demons",
        "scene": "An icebound research station where instruments record extra thermal signatures and whispers freeze in the air",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "An icebound research station where instruments record extra thermal signatures and whispers freeze in the air",
            "Frosted windows with interior frost calligraphy",
            "A line of scientific logbooks on a desk",
            "A half-broken hydrogen sensor blinking red",
            "A sled left stalled in snow"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Thermal images show shapes moving with no heat signature",
            "Breath freezes into faint letters that linger",
            "Instruments blink to spell out a warning",
            "A logbook annotation appears in the margin in ink that wasn't there"
        ],
        "camera": "Clinical close on instruments shifting to wide station exterior",
        "accents": [
            "frost micro-highlights on glass",
            "metal micro-highlights on instrument panels"
        ],
        "mood": "polar wrongness",
        "lighting": "cold blue with narrow warm instrument glows",
        "style": "scientific uncanny"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Demons",
        "scene": "A child's treehouse at dusk where lullabies play from within though windows are shuttered",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "A child's treehouse at dusk where lullabies play from within though windows are shuttered",
            "Hand-drawn flags hanging on a line",
            "A rope ladder frayed at the bottom",
            "A tin lunchbox with stickers",
            "A carved initials heart in railing"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Lullaby melody filters out in half-notes that seem to loop backwards",
            "A stuffed toy turns its face slowly toward the camera",
            "A child's handwriting appears on the underside of the table",
            "A small door opens a fraction and then closes"
        ],
        "camera": "Exterior low-angle tree-level with tight toy/hand inserts",
        "accents": [
            "fabric micro-highlights on toy fur",
            "wood micro-highlights on carved initials"
        ],
        "mood": "childlike uncanny",
        "lighting": "warm dusk spot with cooling background",
        "style": "innocence-corrupt vignette"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Demons",
        "scene": "An abandoned asylum ward where cell doors breathe and name plaques rearrange overnight",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "An abandoned asylum ward where cell doors breathe and name plaques rearrange overnight",
            "Rusty bedframes in long rows",
            "A names board with small metal plates",
            "A cracked administration window",
            "A clock stopped at a specific hour"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Cell doors flex as if inhaling and exhaling",
            "Name plates slide to spell a single new surname",
            "A faint chorus of recorded voices swells and fades",
            "The clock ticks once and then halts"
        ],
        "camera": "Long hallway push with individual cell inserts",
        "accents": [
            "rust micro-highlights on bedframes",
            "metal micro-highlights on nameplate edges"
        ],
        "mood": "institutional terror",
        "lighting": "cold corridor light with narrow spot accents",
        "style": "asylum uncanny"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Demons",
        "scene": "An old mill where water wheels whirl counter to the stream and grain flows uphill",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "An old mill where water wheels whirl counter to the stream and grain flows uphill",
            "Sacks of flour split and powdered trails",
            "A millstone carved with odd runes",
            "A sluice gate stuck open",
            "A rat trail departing across a beam"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Water runs opposite its channel for a few pendulous moments",
            "Grain drifts uphill into sacks as if obeying a pull",
            "A millstone pulses a faint glow over the rune",
            "A rat halts mid-track and turns to stare, unblinking"
        ],
        "camera": "Mechanical tracking around wheel with slow reverse-speed inserts",
        "accents": [
            "water micro-highlights on leak rivulets",
            "grain micro-highlights catching tiny motion"
        ],
        "mood": "mechanical wrongness",
        "lighting": "muted natural with deep mill shadow",
        "style": "industrial occult"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Demons",
        "scene": "An opera house empty after the premiere where costumes animate and applause echoes from walls",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "An opera house empty after the premiere where costumes animate and applause echoes from walls",
            "Rows of velvet seats and balustrades",
            "A shattered chandelier polished but dim",
            "Scores scattered on the stage",
            "A dressing room mirror cracked in a star pattern"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Costumes shift as if worn and then fold themselves back",
            "Applause reverberates without source and causes dust motes to freeze then fall",
            "A score's notes change to unfamiliar notation mid-page",
            "A dressing-room mirror fogs to show a performer's face that isn't present"
        ],
        "camera": "Dolly from stage to balcony with dressing-room insert closeups",
        "accents": [
            "velvet micro-highlights on seat edges",
            "glass micro-highlights on cracked mirror fragments"
        ],
        "mood": "artistic haunting",
        "lighting": "spotlight ghosts with warm backstage fills",
        "style": "operatic uncanny"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Demons",
        "scene": "A riverside slaughterhouse where meat hooks swing in slow arcs forming glyph patterns",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "A riverside slaughterhouse where meat hooks swing in slow arcs forming glyph patterns",
            "Stainless rails streaked with dark residue",
            "A shallow pool with a reflective surface",
            "A rusted scale frozen at an odd number",
            "A stained cloth draped over a rail"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Hooks swing in choreographed sequence to sketch glyphs in dripping residue",
            "Pool reflections show faces that aren't above them",
            "Scale digits rearrange to show a sequence of names",
            "Cloth pulses as if breathing beneath"
        ],
        "camera": "Low industrial tracking with high-contrast metal macro",
        "accents": [
            "stainless micro-highlights on hook edges",
            "water micro-highlights in pool reflections"
        ],
        "mood": "visceral wrongness",
        "lighting": "clinical cold with blood-warm pockets",
        "style": "industrial grotesque"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Demons",
        "scene": "A clockmaker's shop where gear teeth rearrange and hour hands point to faces in the room",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "A clockmaker's shop where gear teeth rearrange and hour hands point to faces in the room",
            "A wall of ticking clocks silent at once",
            "A bench of tiny precision tools",
            "A drawer scattered with watch hands",
            "A magnifying lens on a stand"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Gears slide to form a new mechanism that didn't fit before",
            "Hour hands stop to point directly at a listener's eyes",
            "Tiny screws roll into a pattern like a script",
            "A pocket watch opens to show an impossible miniature scene"
        ],
        "camera": "Macro insert-heavy with clock-face wide pulls",
        "accents": [
            "metal micro-highlights on gear teeth",
            "glass micro-highlights on crystal faces"
        ],
        "mood": "precise unease",
        "lighting": "warm bench lamp with cool shop shadow",
        "style": "mechanical uncanny"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Demons",
        "scene": "An orchard at harvest where fruit grows black centers and whispers names at night",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "An orchard at harvest where fruit grows black centers and whispers names at night",
            "Ladders propped and baskets overturned",
            "A farmhouse silhouette against the moon",
            "A scattering of crows perched in rows",
            "A rusted pruning hook hanging"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Fruit split shows a dark seed that pulses with tiny light",
            "Branches bend to form small doorways between trunks",
            "A whispering wind arranges fallen fruit into names",
            "Crows take flight in a choreography that mirrors constellation lines"
        ],
        "camera": "Crane from canopy to ground with close fruit macro",
        "accents": [
            "fruit micro-highlights on waxed skins",
            "branch micro-highlights showing cut texture"
        ],
        "mood": "agricultural unease",
        "lighting": "cool moonlight with warm farmhouse accents",
        "style": "pastoral uncanny"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Demons",
        "scene": "Final hush: a fog-carved clearing where a single figure bows and then dissolves into many footprints",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Final hush: a fog-carved clearing where a single figure bows and then dissolves into many footprints",
            "A shallow crater ringed with salt",
            "A cluster of small totems in the center",
            "Wind-blown petals forming a spiral",
            "A distant house light blinking three times"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Figure bows and its shadow separates into multiple small steps",
            "Salt crackles and reorders itself into a sigil",
            "Totems hum in silent unison then go still",
            "The clearing exhales a visible plume that drifts away"
        ],
        "camera": "Slow orbit with increasing pullback to reveal the empty landscape",
        "accents": [
            "salt micro-highlights on crystalline edges",
            "petal micro-highlights catching soft motion"
        ],
        "mood": "resigned closure",
        "lighting": "diffuse fog with a single cool backlight",
        "style": "poetic closing"
    }
]