Director Guillermo del Toro said that his film The Shape of Water was a remake of Creature from the Black Lagoon, which was a combination sci-fi horror flick based on the incoherent mish-mash of Christianity and Darwinist "science" that typified America of the 1950s. Del Toro referred to the creatures in both films as the "Gill-Man," but the films are very different. In Black Lagoon, the Gill-Man is a monster; in The Shape of Water he is "a romantic...