The monsters: two creatures who are the actual evidence that ours is a cruel and frightful world. In 20 sketches they show our shortcomings and habits, our cowardice and mediocrity. And because this is an Italian comedy there are no half-measures and the caricature hits the nail on the head. That's a great moment of corrosive humour.«I don't want to show extreme cases, pathologic deformities. These characters are all ordinary people who live among us, people like us. Modern life builds monsters, turns normal individuals into monsters: the tenacious followers, the car drivers, the newspapermen, the politicians, all these are 'monsters' in some of their exacerbated attitudes.»Dino Risi, interviewed by Luigi Costantini when shooting 'I mostri', in 'La Fiera del Cinema', n.8, August 1963.