This movie contains several references to previous Frankenstein movies: The Creature is brought to life in a metallic vat, as in Frankenstein (1910). Victor cuts an executed criminal from a hangman's noose, and uses the body for his experiments, as in Frankenstein (1931) and Frankenstein Junior (1974). The Creature is reanimated with electrical charges. This is an invention of Hollywood. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley does not specify in the novel how Victor creates or animates the Creature. Once the Creature comes to life, Victor triumphantly shouts, "It's alive!" The Creature's first spoken word is "friend". This is also the Creature's most frequently-used word, when he learns to speak in La moglie di Frankenstein (1935). Victor uses the brain of a brilliant scientist and mentor for his Creature, as in La maschera di Frankenstein (1957). Justine Moritz's role is also expanded, and is made to fall in love with Victor in both movies. Victor's mentor, who paved the road for his experiments, brings a severed arm back to life, and shows it to Victor, as in Frankenstein: The True Story (1973). The Creature hides in some cottagers' pigsty, and secretly learns to speak and read from observing them through a peephole. In the book, the cottagers are foreign refugees. In this movie, the cottagers are simply local townsfolk. This variation on the novel was first used in Victor Frankenstein (1977). Victor revives a mangled and hideous Elizabeth after the Creature murders her, and Victor and the Creature then engage in a battle for her affection. Horrified, the reanimated Elizabeth takes her own life. The same events take place, almost exactly, in Frankenstein oltre le frontiere del tempo (1990). A cholera epidemic sweeps through Ingolstadt, leaving Victor to believe that the Creature died from disease. Frankenstein (1992) also featured a cholera epidemic under very similar circumstances, even though it is not present in the novel.

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