Both in a very clear visual element (comparing the look of the original creature to the way that Doug Jones looks in The Shape of Water) and anecdotally from del Toro himself. It is not quite a horror, but certainly follows in the footsteps of 1954’s The Creature from the Black Lagoon. She ends up meeting her fate at the hands of a government agent, Richard Strickland (Michael Shannon), before being saved by the creature and having her life forever intertwined with its own. Hoffstetler (Michael Stuhlbarg), Elisa breaks the creature out. With the help of Zelda (Octavia Spencer), Giles (Richard Jenkins), and Dr. In her curiosity, she ends up building a relationship with the god-like amphibious creature who’s being held (and tortured) in the facility. When something is brought into the building and housed there, she becomes curious. The film is a dark fairytale (as del Toro is known for) about a mute cleaning woman named Elisa (Sally Hawkins) who works at a government aerospace facility in Baltimore in 1962. (And some bad! Please never talk to me about Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri ever again!) Quickly it became a front runner for the Oscar race that year, and it was in some great company. When Guillermo del Toro’s 2017 feature film The Shape of Water premiered at the Venice International Film Festival, it took home the highest prize from said festival: the Golden Lion.
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