When her stepmother Janet returns home, Lisa exclaims, "Dammit! Janet!", a song title from The Rocky Horror Show stage musical, which is also based on Frankenstein.
In one scene, Lisa refers to her "aunt Shelley". An obvious nod to Mary Shelley, the author of the novel "Frankenstein".
In the opening credits, a young Lisa is making a grave rubbing of the name "Frankenstein", a method which is done by tracing the etching on a gravestone. Frankenstein author Mary Shelley also famously learned to write her own name this way, by tracing the etching on her mother's gravestone.
Lisa says that her favorite film director is "Pabst". Georg Wilhelm Pabst was an Austrian director of films between 1923 and 1956.