How to Make a Monster story

movie: How to Make a Monster (2001) · 2001-10-14

A video game monster comes to life and stalks its developers.

13 total · 10 major · 3 minor

Theme	Level	Motivation
betrayal	major	The hardened businessman Peter Drummond betrayed the Clayton Software development team under his charge by stealing a backup CD containing their unique video game monster with a mind to selling it to a competing company.
competitiveness	major	The story follows three computer programmers as they compete against each other to make the scariest video game monster in an effort to win a $1 million bonus.
cooperation vs. competition	major	Peter Drummond urged the three programmers under his charge to work together on the the video game they were developing, but the programmers hotly competing against each other in an effort to win a $1 million bonus.
greed for riches	major	Peter Drummond was a hardened, "greed is good" businessman who was ruthless in his efforts to enrich himself.
human vs. monster	major	A gruesome video game monster came to life and hunted down its developers.
monster	major	A gruesome video game monster came to life and hunted down its developers.
ruthlessness	major	Peter Drummond was a hardened, "greed is good" businessman who was ruthless in his efforts to enrich himself. In the end, the empathetic intern Laura became a hardened and ruthless CEO.
the making of a monster to society	major	One gathers that the point of the film was to to show how working in a cutthroat business environment can transform a fundamentally good person into a ruthless and selfish person. Case in point: the story follows the empathetic Clayton Software intern Laura Wheeler as she ultimately transforms into a ruthless and cold CEO.
the tech industry	major	The story follows a team of three computer programmers as they attempt to develop a new video game featuring a very scary monster.
video gaming	major	The story follows the development and playing of the first-person shooter game "Evilution".