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  vintagegeekculture:

  “Shape of Water” was far and away my favorite film last year. Absolutely wonderful. But while it certainly does draw on “Creature from the Black Lagoon,” the more direct inspiration was the plot of “Revenge of the Creature,” which starts with the gill-man held in captivity and in chains as a creature of captivity, and the plot is he breaks out.