[18] The image on the cover is a retrace of Galactus, as originally depicted by Jack Kirby (inked by Vince Colletta) in Marvel's Thor #134 - page 3, released in 1966.

[19] [20] The original sleeve art, produced by Music Factory and designed by artist Helge Bauch, features a large orange circle against a white background containing a printmaking drawing.

[21] Monster Movie brings together elements of psychedelic rock, blues, free jazz, world music and other styles, the influence of the Velvet Underground[22][23] being particularly obvious on the opening track "Father Cannot Yell".

The use of improvisation, experimentation, tape editing and layering of sounds set a standard for Can's subsequent albums in the early 1970s, which helped form the style labeled "krautrock" by the British music press.

[27] Richard Williams, writing for New Musical Express, identified the Velvet Underground influence on the album's shorter tracks, but admitted "they have a lot of themselves to offer, mainly in the field of electronics, which they use with sparing brilliance, and the interplay between the Morse-code organ and the machine-gun drums on "You Do Right" [sic] is extremely startling".