Things get better when it's discovered that laughter is a much better source of energy than screams. Waternoose (James Coburn) kidnap children locking them into a scream extractor to forcibly drain them of their energy. Things take a turn for the worse when Mike and Sully (Billy Crystal and Joh Goodman, respectively) discover a plot by the company's CEO Henry J. Children, the world over, are terrified in their beds in order to create consumable energy stores by harvesting their screams. than the characters themselves, is the terrifying energy generation strategies used by the titular power company. The only thing more monstrous about the society portrayed in Monsters, Inc.
