[
    {
        "subGenre": "Scary Clowns",
        "scene": "Abandoned circus tent with peeling stripes and overturned seats",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Tattered big-top illuminated by a single swinging bulb",
            "Rows of collapsed chairs with confetti frozen in midair",
            "Center ring with a cracked clown podium",
            "Backstage area full of discarded makeup kits",
            "Ticket booth with faded posters of smiling faces"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "A lone red nose rolls across the sawdust",
            "Distant laughter echoes and then repeats out of sync",
            "A clown silhouette tiptoes just outside the spotlight",
            "Makeup brushes tremble and paint smear into faces"
        ],
        "camera": "Slow 360-degree dolly around the ring with jittery handheld inserts on props",
        "accents": [
            "moody rim-light catching dust motes",
            "cold speculars on cracked paint and sequins"
        ],
        "mood": "creepy nostalgia",
        "lighting": "single swinging bulb with deep peripheral darkness",
        "style": "circus noir"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Scary Clowns",
        "scene": "Children's playground where clown figures wait on swings",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Empty carousel painted with grinning faces",
            "Slide with a clown silhouette at the top",
            "Rubber duck pond with tiny clown reflections",
            "Seesaw perfectly balanced but unmoving",
            "Sandpit with tiny footprints leading to nowhere"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Swings move in slow arcing patterns with no wind",
            "A balloon drifts uphill toward a clown figure",
            "A child’s abandoned shoe slowly turns toward a painted grin",
            "Laughter recorded on a tape player plays backward"
        ],
        "camera": "Low-angle child-eye tracking with sudden fast cuts to grin details",
        "accents": [
            "warm sunset rim that contrasts with sickly facial makeup",
            "soft bloom on balloons to make color unsettling"
        ],
        "mood": "innocence corrupted",
        "lighting": "late golden hour with pockets of shadowed cold",
        "style": "suburban horror"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Scary Clowns",
        "scene": "A riverside fair where clown acts repeat themselves endlessly",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Fair stalls closed with clown masks hanging on ropes",
            "Riverbank seats with dried cotton candy",
            "Puppet clown show with a looped performance",
            "Bunting flags fluttering though there is no breeze",
            "A prize stand where stuffed animals stare blankly"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "An automaton clown winds and repeats a mournful dance",
            "Crowd silhouettes appear and vanish in reflection",
            "A hand reaches out of the puppet stage and points toward the water",
            "Prize tickets accumulate in a slow, leaning pile"
        ],
        "camera": "Wide fairground tracking with intermittent macro on mechanical eyes",
        "accents": [
            "metallic sheen on automata joints",
            "wet reflections on riverside cobbles"
        ],
        "mood": "mechanical dread",
        "lighting": "muted twilight with artificial fair glow",
        "style": "melancholic uncanny"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Scary Clowns",
        "scene": "A suburban parade where clown floats carry impossible figures",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Floats with extra-long limbs waving slowly",
            "Marching clowns with stitched smiles",
            "A band playing warped carnival tunes",
            "Spectators frozen mid-cheer",
            "Banners that read faded cheerful slogans"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Clowns wave and eyes follow the camera",
            "One float collapses then re-inflates as if blinking",
            "Confetti falls upward then shivers back to podiums",
            "A marcher steps out of formation and melts into shadow"
        ],
        "camera": "Steadicam alongside the parade with occasional top-down crane sweeps",
        "accents": [
            "desaturated color palette with pinpoint neon pops",
            "micro-reflections in sequins and buttons"
        ],
        "mood": "public unease",
        "lighting": "daylight with odd color grading to emphasize reds",
        "style": "processional horror"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Scary Clowns",
        "scene": "A mirror maze where every reflection twists a clown's grin",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Corridor of angled mirrors doubling every face",
            "Broken pane that shows a different clown",
            "Fogged glass that reveals painted teeth",
            "A dead-end reflecting a room full of clowns",
            "Hidden alcoves with mirrors catching impossible angles"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Reflections step slightly out of sync with movements",
            "A mirror-stare that holds longer than the subject",
            "Painted grins concave where real faces remain neutral",
            "Mirrors rearrange subtly to open new corridors"
        ],
        "camera": "Disorienting dolly with mirrored symmetry and matched cuts",
        "accents": [
            "cold glass caustics and pinpoint highlights",
            "soft edge-bloom to distort depth"
        ],
        "mood": "psychological unease",
        "lighting": "spotlights with deep surrounding black",
        "style": "surreal claustrophobic horror"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Scary Clowns",
        "scene": "A late-night diner staffed entirely by clowns",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Formica counter with chipped clown tiles",
            "Booth windows with painted smiles outside",
            "A jukebox playing warped calliope tunes",
            "Coffee cups branded with grins",
            "A milkshake machine dripping red syrup"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Clown waitstaff refill cups with an overly cheerful motion",
            "A patron's reflection shows a clown smiling back",
            "Menus list items that cause strange memories",
            "A pie is served and the filling whispers"
        ],
        "camera": "Intimate counter-level shots with subtle dutch angles",
        "accents": [
            "neon rim-light bleeding into chromed surfaces",
            "slick specular on syrup and ceramic"
        ],
        "mood": "domestic dread",
        "lighting": "neon diner glow with shadowed corners",
        "style": "retro uncanny"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Scary Clowns",
        "scene": "An old hospital ward where clowns perform nightly rounds",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Gurneys with clown dolls on each bed",
            "Nurses' station with painted charts",
            "Hallway lights strobing in carnival rhythm",
            "Isolation rooms with small circus rugs",
            "A therapy room filled with helium balloons"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Clown 'nurses' check charts and smile too wide",
            "Wheeled carts roll by with squeaking cymbals",
            "A child's laughter morphs into a distant calliope",
            "Balloon animals untie and walk away"
        ],
        "camera": "Slow dolly down the corridor with close inserts on chart names and toys",
        "accents": [
            "clinical fluorescents clashing with circus warm rim",
            "latex sheen on balloons and prosthetics"
        ],
        "mood": "medical circus terror",
        "lighting": "harsh institutional light softened by colored gels",
        "style": "hospital grotesque"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Scary Clowns",
        "scene": "A basement storage of mannequin clowns awaiting repair",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Rows of mannequins under dust sheets",
            "Workbenches with spare painted eyes",
            "Shelves stocked with oversized shoes",
            "A single lamp swinging and revealing new faces",
            "A maintenance log with names scratched out"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Mannequin heads slowly turn toward a visitor",
            "Glue drips as if sweating with anticipation",
            "A repaired clown blinks for the first time",
            "Shoes shuffle into a neat line when left alone"
        ],
        "camera": "Low moody dolly with precise macro on joint mechanics",
        "accents": [
            "coarse dust detail highlighted by rim-lights",
            "metallic tool glints with cold reflections"
        ],
        "mood": "anticipatory dread",
        "lighting": "dim basement lamps with harsh shadows",
        "style": "mechanical uncanny"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Scary Clowns",
        "scene": "A festival of balloons where faces form on the skin",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Balloon archways with painted smiles that shift",
            "Clusters of red balloons fluttering like murmurs",
            "A release that drifts with tiny faces visible",
            "Vendor tying faces into balloons",
            "A child's balloon that speaks in giggles"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Faces on balloons smile wider as you approach",
            "A cluster breaks into a whispering chorus",
            "A balloon lands and imitates a passerby",
            "Pop sounds that echo like distant clapping"
        ],
        "camera": "Whimsical crane with sudden micro zooms on face details",
        "accents": [
            "translucent highlight on balloon latex",
            "specular bounces on helium sheen"
        ],
        "mood": "playful menace",
        "lighting": "bright festival light with unnerving saturation",
        "style": "phantasmagorical horror"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Scary Clowns",
        "scene": "A funeral for a clown troupe under a grey sky",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Coffins painted in bright colors lined in a row",
            "Mourners with painted smiles concealing grief",
            "A solitary bouquet of balloon flowers deflating",
            "A casket opened to reveal a painted face",
            "Last applause echoing through an empty lot"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Mourners clap in slow, ritual rhythm",
            "A hat falls and never quite lands flat",
            "A clown's makeup smudges into tattooed sorrow",
            "Wind flutters a program and spells an odd name"
        ],
        "camera": "Slow moving dolly with close emotional inserts and long lingering shots",
        "accents": [
            "subtle velvet texture on costumes under soft rim-light",
            "wet fabric specular from recent rain"
        ],
        "mood": "melancholic dread",
        "lighting": "overcast soft light with pockets of gloom",
        "style": "elegiac uncanny"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Scary Clowns",
        "scene": "A motel with a clown-shaped neon sign flickering",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Room 13 with faded circus wallpaper",
            "Neon sign outside casting red-pink shadows",
            "A corridor carpet patterned with tiny jesters",
            "An analog TV playing static and carnival scenes",
            "Laundry with painted costumes hung to dry"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Neon buzz morphs into a chuckle",
            "Room keys jingle with names of past performers",
            "TV static resolves into a single smiling face",
            "Curtains ripple as if a parade just passed"
        ],
        "camera": "Steadicam down dim corridors with tight inserts on door numbers",
        "accents": [
            "neon caustic on glass surfaces",
            "thread micro-detail on wallpaper and carpet fibers"
        ],
        "mood": "transient unease",
        "lighting": "neon-saturated night with deep interior shadows",
        "style": "nocturnal roadside horror"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Scary Clowns",
        "scene": "A psychiatrist's office where patients draw clowns that move",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Sketchbook pages populated with evolving clowns",
            "Therapy toys rearranged into a circus tableau",
            "Walls lined with portraits that shift nightly",
            "A lone armchair facing a painted ring",
            "A patient corridor where drawings whisper"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Drawings shift positions between sessions",
            "Clay clowns in the corner rearrange themselves",
            "A patient hums a tune that makes portraits smile",
            "A recorder picks up faint carnival music on playback"
        ],
        "camera": "Intimate over-the-shoulder coverage and slow reveals of changing art",
        "accents": [
            "soft pencil grain texture in sketches",
            "warm lamp rim-light accenting paper edges"
        ],
        "mood": "therapeutic dread",
        "lighting": "warm office lamps with deep peripheral shadow",
        "style": "psychological uncanny"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Scary Clowns",
        "scene": "A rooftop at dusk where painted faces appear in window panes",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Skyline of distant circus tents reflected in glass",
            "Window panes with transient painted grins",
            "A rooftop ladder leading to a dim trapdoor",
            "Satellite dishes spinning like painted eyes",
            "A water tank with a faded clown emblem"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Reflections form new smiles then vanish",
            "A rooftop performer balances and disappears",
            "A window paints itself with a grin to match a passerby",
            "Wind scatters face-shaped confetti across gravel"
        ],
        "camera": "High vantage panorama with slow push-ins on reflective windows",
        "accents": [
            "city light rim contrasting with painted facial highlights",
            "tiny water bead speculars on rooftop gravel"
        ],
        "mood": "urban surrealism",
        "lighting": "dusk glow mixed with artificial rooftop lights",
        "style": "metropolitan uncanny"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Scary Clowns",
        "scene": "An attic where a lone clown practices disappearing acts",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Dusty trunk of oversized shoes and wigs",
            "Mirror cracked into a sunburst of grins",
            "A trunk of cue cards with fading jokes",
            "A small stage built between rafters",
            "A skylight that frames the moon like a ring"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "The clown disappears and leaves a ring of confetti",
            "Scripts rearrange to show unfamiliar punchlines",
            "A hat floats down then tips politely",
            "A hand reverently lays down an old red nose"
        ],
        "camera": "Constrained handheld with intimate macro on costume textures",
        "accents": [
            "dust-laden rim light and warm attic wood speculars",
            "fabric weave micro-detail on old costumes"
        ],
        "mood": "lonely rehearsal dread",
        "lighting": "soft warm skylight with deep wooden shadows",
        "style": "intimate gothic"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Scary Clowns",
        "scene": "A late-night talk show studio where the host is a clown",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Desk piled with novelty props",
            "Audience seats with painted faces awaiting a cue",
            "Cue cards that rewrite jokes into warnings",
            "Band with instruments shaped like circus animals",
            "Greenroom mirrors lined with lipstick smears"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Host smiles too long between questions",
            "Canned applause plays at odd intervals",
            "A guest recites a line that wasn't on the card and freezes",
            "Stage lights pulse in a carnival pattern"
        ],
        "camera": "Broadcast-style multi-camera edits with sudden jump cuts",
        "accents": [
            "studio light speculars with saturation pushes",
            "micro-reflections on glossy desk surfaces"
        ],
        "mood": "performative dread",
        "lighting": "bright stage lights contrasted with dark audience",
        "style": "televised uncanny"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Scary Clowns",
        "scene": "A back alley where clown posters peel to reveal new faces nightly",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Wall collage of worn posters with different smiles",
            "Graffiti that rearranges into tiny circus slogans",
            "A damp alley puddle reflecting a parade",
            "A lamppost with a single red ribbon tied",
            "Cardboard boxes shaped into miniature tents"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Posters change expression when unobserved",
            "A ribbon unties itself and flutters into a face",
            "Puddles show processions that aren't there",
            "A paper hand waves and then dissolves"
        ],
        "camera": "Grimy handheld with high-contrast textures and matched cuts",
        "accents": [
            "wet wall speculars with peeling paint detail",
            "low neon rim highlighting poster edges"
        ],
        "mood": "street-level unease",
        "lighting": "sparse streetlight pools with heavy shadow",
        "style": "urban decay horror"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Scary Clowns",
        "scene": "A toy factory line producing clowns that keep extra smiles",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Conveyor belts lined with painted faces",
            "Assembly stations where eyes are set in odd directions",
            "Boxing stations where packages hum softly",
            "Quality control measuring smiles against a ruler",
            "Storage warehouse with sealed crates of grins"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Newly made clowns whisper jokes that make humans cry",
            "A conveyor belt loops faces into new configurations",
            "A worker's hands hesitate as eyes follow",
            "Boxes open to reveal dozens of tiny laughing mouths"
        ],
        "camera": "Industrial wide with precise lateral pans and machine close-ups",
        "accents": [
            "oily metal speculars and painted plastic sheen",
            "tiny factory dust motes catching light"
        ],
        "mood": "manufactured dread",
        "lighting": "cold industrial fluorescents with spot gels",
        "style": "mechanized uncanny"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Scary Clowns",
        "scene": "A late-night phone line where callers only hear circus music and whispers",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Switchboard with red-lit plugs",
            "Headphones clanging though no operator is present",
            "Message tapes that hum a calliope tune",
            "A voicemail inbox full of giggles",
            "A ringing phone that never gets answered"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Dial tone warps into a laugh track",
            "Messages record visitors' private jokes and repeat them altered",
            "A caller hears a child's name they've never known",
            "Phones light up with static-shaped grins"
        ],
        "camera": "Close inserts on handset, tape reels, and blinking lights; ambient wide for atmosphere",
        "accents": [
            "tiny LED rim highlights on switches",
            "soft magnetic tape sheen catching light"
        ],
        "mood": "isolationary dread",
        "lighting": "low emergency lamp with pinprick indicators",
        "style": "aural uncanny"
    }
]