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On a budget of $300,000 the Los Angeles Times stated that the film grossed $7 million by 1974.
Warhol's contributions to the film were minimal, including visiting the set once and briefly visiting during the editing period. While some Italian prints credit second unit director Antonio Margheriti as director of the film under his pseudonym "Anthony M. Dawson", Udo Kier has stated that Margheriti had nothing to do with directing the film. Margheriti was credited as the director to ensure the film would obtain Italian nationality for the producers due to Italian laws. Tonino Guerra is credited as the screenwriter in the Italian prints as well, but his input is strictly limited to the Italian print of the film, as the only writer whose work on the film was ever evident was Morrissey himself. Margheriti did shoot some special effects scenes, including the scene involving "breathing lungs" made from pigs' lungs.
In 1973 Paul Morrissey and Joe Dallesandro came to Italy to shoot a film for producers Andrew Braunsberg and Carlo Ponti. The original idea came from director Roman Polanski, who had met Morrissey when promoting his film What?, with Morrissey stating that Polanski felt he would be "a natural person to make a 3-D film about Frankenstein.”
The film was shot with a 3D technique called Spacevision. Unlike other 3D films that usually required red and blue glasses, this one required polarized glasses with one lens slightly shifted, which allowed full colors in the film. The 3D effects were mostly pronounced in the center of the screen. Most presentations found today are in 2D.
At first, Morrissey intended to rely on improvisation for the dialogue for his characters, but had to come up with a new method, as this would not work for some actors, such as Udo Kier.
This led to Morrissey preparing the dialogue day-by-day, dictating it to Pat Hackett at his studio.
The film was rated X in the USA due to its explicit depiction of sex and violence.
The gory special effects are an early example of the work of Carlo Rambaldi who would later go on to do the special effects for E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982).
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