The "futuristic" car that Dr. Buchanan (Sir John Hurt ) drives is a 1988 Italdesign Aztec concept car.
Shot in seven weeks.
The title is a reference to the full title of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's original novel ("Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus") and Percy Bysshe Shelley's lyrical drama "Prometheus Unbound".
This is Roger Corman's first directing assignment since he directed Von Richthofen and Brown (1971).