In contact with Jiang Zhiqiang, Xu Chengyi and he already had the idea of "hunting monsters", but this was five years before the actual shooting. They have been telling stories for five years. Both of them want to create a different fantasy movie about monsters in China. Together with screenwriter Alan Yuen, they read all the stories in Shan Hai Jing and Liao Zhai and found a short story called House Demon. Although it is about monsters, they think that in The House Demon, "everything is spiritual and beautiful." Xu Chengyi, a naive old boys, didn't want to make ghost films from the beginning. "The Demon Hunt is a movie suitable for a family to watch during the Spring Festival. It's happy, not scary at all. This is a matter for 65,438+0,000% China people. "