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.
Lisa says that her favorite film director is "Pabst". Georg Wilhelm Pabst was an Austrian director of films between 1923 and 1956.
In one scene, Lisa refers to her "aunt Shelley". An obvious nod to Mary Shelley, the author of the novel "Frankenstein".
There are two police officers in the film, Officer John and Officer Waters - an obvious nod to the king of camp, director John Waters.