[2][3] The first in a series of cryptid-related documentaries produced by Breedlove's production company Small Town Monsters,[4] the film features interviews with law enforcement, media officials, and supposed witnesses of the titular creature.

[5] It features interviews with supposed witnesses of the creature, including members of the Cayton family (including claimed eyewitness Howe Cayton), former Akron Beacon Journal reporter Barbara Galloway, and Stark County Sherriff's deputy James Shannon.

We put money into things like equipment and gas and chartered a plane to fly us over Minerva for aerial shots.

[8] A fifth-anniversary screening of Minerva Monster was scheduled to be held on March 21, 2020, at the Palace Theatre in Canton, Ohio, followed by a screening of another Small Town Monsters-produced film, The Flatwoods Monster: A Legacy of Fear (2018), and a premiere of On the Trail of UFOs;[11][12] the event was canceled by March 17, 2020.

[8][13] In a review of the film for Massillon, Ohio's The Independent, Robert McCune wrote that, while the filmmakers do not offer commentary of their own, "Their bias shows in whom they didn't put in front of the camera: the naysayers and critics.