After returning from Jiangcheng Mental Hospital, Lu Ban felt much better.

He came into contact with real mental patients and obtained a lot of first-hand information through communicating and chatting with them.

In the past, Lu Ban only had a superficial understanding of mental illness. Like many other ordinary normal people, he felt that mental illness was bizarre, difficult to understand, strange, and impossible to communicate with.

But after actual contact, Lu Ban felt that these patients with diseases were actually the same as ordinary people, except that their way of thinking had some deviations due to the disease.

For example, typical delusional people seem to be neurotic and always afraid or hate something that does not exist at all. But in fact, they just have frequent delusions and regard their imagination as reality. Imagine that if there is an ugly creature around you in reality, you will also want to drive it away. However, patients with delusional people just make normal and reasonable actions. In other words, except for treating delusions as reality, they are no different from ordinary people.

Some patients with delusional disorder will even construct a worldview of their own and act according to the rules of this worldview. From this point of view, they are actually very normal in their delusions, even more normal than many ordinary people who don’t know what they are thinking every day.

Once this is understood, the thoughts of a mentally ill person can be captured.

The reason why Lu Ban wanted to study mental patients was to learn about their unreasonable characteristics.

As we all know, the scariest part of horror works is the monsters or the incomprehensible dangers.

The most terrifying moment is when the protagonists don’t know what they are being chased, killed, or threatened by, and don’t know when the other party will pop up from where.

If those ghosts can be understood, seen through, and even eliminated, then the sense of horror will completely disappear.

In a horror game, if there is only a flashlight, anything that appears can scare the player to death, but if the player is given a gun loaded with bullets, the player will just shout for more monsters.

Dangers that cannot be resisted and can only be avoided will cause people to feel uneasy.

The mentally ill fit this description perfectly.

In many works, the mere appearance of a mentally ill patient is enough to create a horror atmosphere. If the patient is disheveled, haggard, holding a tattered baby doll and singing one or two nursery rhymes, it will definitely be impressive.

Lu Ban returned home and the TV was still on, playing those short industrial manufacturing videos that he watched online to relieve stress. This time it was about the making of a mirror.

He saw that Lu Ban in the mirror seemed to enjoy watching these things and was staring at the screen intently.

The two clumps of mist on the sofa didn't care at all and seemed to have fallen asleep.

Lu Ban came to the computer, opened the document, and began to record his thoughts and experiences today.

Three days later, on the last day of April, the May Day holiday was about to begin. On the afternoon of the 30th, everyone had no intention of working and were only thinking about how to spend the holiday.

But for the theater staff, this holiday is not a leisurely one.

During the May Day Golden Week, many movies will be released, marking the beginning of the summer season, including "In the Mouth of a Madman".

The pre-sale box office of "In the Mouth of a Madman" is close to 50 million, which is an excellent result for a horror thriller. You know, many similar movies have only this much in total box office. Naturally, most horror movies that have deep roots in B-level movies are synonymous with low cost and low box office.

After all, with big productions and big investments, who would still want to make horror movies? Wouldn't it be better to make superhero movies or disaster movies?

Horror movies are poor value for money.

May 1st, midnight.

The premiere of In the Mouth of a Madman.

Countless audiences flocked to the cinema at night just to take a look at what Lu Ban’s first work in the horror film world view is.

Bai Qiquan, a student at Yannan University of Communication, and his girlfriend Pang Zhen were among them.

Bai Qiquan has been studying horror movies recently. After watching "The Wailing", Bai Qiquan began to develop an interest in horror movies. He didn't watch many before, but he has been catching up recently, even watching B-level movies. For him, the routines of horror movies are already familiar.

It's nothing more than something suddenly popping up to scare you, using some disgusting things to make people feel disgusted, adding ketchup, severed limbs, chainsaws, and scenes such as hospitals, mental hospitals, and schools.

He will be preparing the content of his graduation thesis this year, and Bai Qiquan is still considering whether to choose a topic for research on horror films.

Walking into the cinema, Bai Qiquan saw that many people were still smiling.

This is also normal, because of the previous popularity of "The Wailing", horror movies began to enter the public eye, and more and more people began to watch these horror movies. This time the pre-sale box office is also for this reason.

In other words, many viewers actually just came to watch the midnight premiere today, and had no intuitive knowledge of Lu Ban's horror films before.

Bai Qiquan felt a little gloating, but when he thought about it carefully, he was also sitting in the audience, and he didn't know who would be more embarrassed by then.

He stopped talking.

The movie started and he calmed down to watch the movie.

More than a hundred minutes later.

As the production credits and ending song played, the huge cinema was silent.

Bai Qiquan looked at the screen, his mind went blank.

This is not the same as being frightened or feeling scared.

If watching "The Wailing" and other works by Lu Ban brought him direct fear, the feeling that fear turned into a poisonous snake and entangled himself, then this film gave him the feeling that a lot of things were forced into his head.

Some people have this experience when they were young. They used to live only in their own homes and go to kindergarten and elementary school. They felt that the world was very small and only this big. But one day, they suddenly saw something grand, such as the sea, the boundless starry sky, and those huge and busy cities. The feeling at that moment was what Bai Qiquan recognized.

It was a feeling of fear that he could not control, understand, or recognize. When the credits ended and the lights in the cinema came on, Bai Qiquan burst into tears.

He felt that his life seemed meaningless and everything was hypocritical, just like the protagonists in the movie and the novelist. No matter how hard he tried, he could not stop the world from moving forward towards destruction.

This movie is like a switch. Once you press it, you become nothing.

"Lu Ban, this person is so scary!"

During the sage time, Bai Qiquan was filled with emotion.