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The Shape of Water (2017)
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
influenced by The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)
Themes
Del Toro constantly evokes shades of “The Creature Walks Among Us,” and “Beauty and the Beast,” while also channeling Woody Allen’s “Purple Rose of Cairo.”
But the most important and uncredited film here is The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) and its sequel, the tragedy The Creature Walks Among Us (1956).
While the actual film never happened due to Universal’s rejection of these themes, del Toro saved these ideas to create The Shape of Water .