Folk Horror

Daylight dread. Pastoral beauty wrong. Ritual objects. Closed communities.

Tenets

1. Beautiful nature + wrong customs
2. Handmade ritual props
3. Village scale, fields, woods
4. Warm daylight can be scarier than night
5. Symbols repeating

Recipe

Target: pastoral daylight dread: warm low sun (golden hour, about 12 degrees), straw/wood handmade props, camera at field height (35 mm, about 1.4 m), a ring of 7 ritual props around the focal object.