After the second trailer for In the Mouth of Madness was released, the internet was silent for a short while.

Because it’s too fast!

Originally, everyone thought that since the first trailer released by Lu Ban was so short, the feature film was probably just beginning to be prepared, and even the actors might not have been found yet, and the wheat seeds were just being sown.

But unexpectedly, in less than a month, the second trailer updated by Lu Ban would be so complete.

The first three monologues in this trailer are similar in style, but the horror they present is different.

The first is shadow. Dark places always make people instinctively afraid. No matter who you are, when you were a child, you may have imagined a hand or something else suddenly appearing in the shadow and grabbing you. Because darkness represents the unknown, fear of the dark is human instinct.

The second is color. If pure darkness brings people uncertainty and uneasiness, then colors that are too bright and unique and do not belong to nature give people a sense of danger, just like poisonous mushrooms and poisonous insects, which all use bright colors to protect themselves. The weird portrait brings people such a primitive terror.

The third one is insects, such as spiders, centipedes, and millipedes. These creatures with more than four legs are usually highly poisonous. There should be only a few people in the world who are not afraid of spiders. Seeing spiders crawling out of the human body, the dense appearance is simply enough to give people goose bumps.

Moreover, Lu Ban's films themselves have a kind of power that transcends reality. When you see the monster in the dark, it's as if something is stirring in the shadows around you. When you see the oil painting with the weird monster on it, it seems like the thing is about to crawl out of the screen. And when spiders crawl all over the person on the screen, the audience will also feel the sensation of having insects crawling all over their body.

As for the following shots, they are standard plots for an adventure and suspense movie, with some big scenes, some personal performances, some gags, and the final thriller.

These combinations produced a chemical reaction under the special effects of Lu Ban's film. Simply put, it was very addictive.

In a discussion group on the movie rating website Doudou.com that gathers many industry insiders, discussions about Lu Ban's new film have increased with the release of the second trailer.

[Actor Zhao Kuo]: Director Lu seems to have used previous actors in his second film. Can anyone of you contact them?

[Movie Bricklayer]: What do you want to do after you get in touch with them? Poach other people's employees?

[Actor Zhao Kuo]: No, don’t you find it strange? The actors who play Lu Ban all have first-rate acting skills. The girls are pretty and the boys suit the roles very well. For example, the dean in “The Wailing” looks like a truly crazy doctor. It’s unreasonable that such a character has never appeared in other movies!

[Hengdian Xiaozhi]: What's unreasonable about this? There are so many actors you don't know. There are so many extras across the country, and even in Hengdian there are hundreds of newcomers every day. Lu Ban must have some special channels to find these actors who are suitable for the roles.

[Ordinary screenwriter A Xiang]: Indeed, sometimes more powerful directors like to use newcomers, such as so-and-so, and so-and-so, and Lu Ban. I guess they also have their own quirks in using people.

[Yannan Xiaoliu]: Speaking of which, I'm currently running a group where one of the supporting actors is a second-generation rich man who joined the group with money. He was originally a variety show actor with terrible acting skills. Later, I don't know through what channel he found Lu Ban, and it is said that he received guidance and teaching. Now it seems that his acting skills are off the charts. I guess you'll be able to see it in a while. That frightened expression, hey, it's like he really saw a ghost!

[Red Bean Paste Popsicle]: Is this Lu Ban really that amazing? He seemed to be just an ordinary rookie graduate a year ago. Is there someone behind this who is creating his image?

[Movie Bricklayer]: Speaking of this, I am dying of laughter. A buddy of mine told me when we were drinking a few days ago that in March or April last year, a handyman handed him a horror film script, but he refused it without even reading it. But now when he looks back, he finds out that the handyman was Lu Ban. Isn’t that a coincidence?

[Ordinary screenwriter A Xiang]: I really should thank your friend. If he had accepted it at that time, there would probably be no Lu Ban. Lu Ban's shooting style and special effects are really beyond the control of ordinary domestic directors. If you can find a young and handsome guy to make a cameo appearance and someone who can attract a lot of traffic to be the protagonist, this movie will be a sure hit.

Discussions about Lu Ban and his "In the Mouth of a Madman" skyrocketed along with the trailer. The second trailer exceeded 30 million views in just one day. On film and television websites, the expectations for "In the Mouth of a Madman" immediately reached the maximum, ranking first, and its popularity far exceeded the sum of the remaining second to tenth places.

Some people in the industry have noticed that if "The Wailing" is a pure horror film, with classic horror film routines from the background to the story, then "In the Mouth of a Madman" is obviously a horror adventure film. Such a movie is more popular, with adventurous and funny plots, as well as thrilling and exciting plots. Although the audience is still not as large as that of a serious family movie or a war blockbuster, it is much larger than the pure horror film "The Wailing".

In addition, this is the first official film of the Silent Project, and people are even more curious about what kind of world view will be presented in it.

However, everyone doubts Lu Ban’s production capacity.

After all, for a movie, even if the preliminary preparations have been completed, it will take at least several months from the start of filming to the end of shooting and post-production special effects production. Then, it will take half a year to schedule, publicize and distribute it.

Not to mention the previous videos, Lu Ban actually officially entered the production of big movies starting with "Hyakunin Isshu", and there was less than two months between "Hyakunin Isshu" and "The Wailing". Now, could it be that "Mouth of the Madman" has been filmed and produced in the four or five months' interval?

There is even the Spring Festival in between.

No, doesn’t Lu Ban ever take a holiday or rest?

There are many directors who make every movie well and it is a big hit at the box office, but they usually only make one every two or three years. But this Lu Ban, three movies a year?

It's like in an era when everyone online writes 4,000 words a day, and there's someone who writes really well and updates 20,000 to 30,000 words a day, which completely crushes them.

Is this going to cause internal competition in the film industry as well?

Film and television practitioners are worried about whether the landing will bring changes to the industry.

Various film and television companies are also busy producing their own horror films, preparing to make another fortune by taking advantage of the popularity of "The Wailing".

However, before the Qingming Festival in April, the Film Bureau in Yannan received a copy of the film master tape.

The name on the label is "In the Mouth of a Madman".