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Creature from the Black Lagoon influenced The Shape of Water
Added by Media Influence Map · 5 October 2026
The influence
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Film · 1954
The work it shaped
The Shape of Water
Film · 2017
The evidence
Guillermo del Toro has said The Shape of Water began with his childhood wish that the Creature and the woman in Creature from the Black Lagoon had ended up together. His amphibian man is a love letter to it.
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