Writer/Director: John Greyson

Producer: Laurie Lynd

Cinematographer: Almerinda Travassos

Editor: Miume Jan Sound Herwig Gayer

Music: Glenn Schellenberg

Principal Cast: Lee MacDougall, Ray Kahnert, Taborah Johnson, David Gardner, Stewart Arnott Production Company Canadian Film Centre

During his residency at the Canadian Film Centre in 1991, John Greyson, the enfant terrible of gay cinema in Canada, directed The Making of "Monsters," a short film dealing with the 1985 murder of a gay schoolteacher by five teenage boys in Toronto's High Park. This fictional documentary chronicles a movie-of-the-week version of the event. There is a movie-within-the-movie produced by Hungarian Marxist and literary critic and theorist Georg Lukacs and directed by Bertolt Brecht, who inexplicably appears as a catfish in a bowl.

Brilliantly incorporating everything from Marxist aesthetics to hockey machismo to tire fires, Greyso made a film that is immensely enjoyable as well as a strong, fearless statement of gay pride. The Making of ā€œMonstersā€ established John Greyson as one of Canada's brightest talents.

Source: Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film; 1991 Toronto International Film Festival program book