Editing Creature from the Black Lagoon (section)

===Legacy===
* The 2017 film ''[[The Shape of Water]]'' was partly inspired by Guillermo del Toro's childhood memories of ''Creature from the Black Lagoon''; he wished to see the Gill-man and the film's co-star succeed in their "romance".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3457493/iconic-horror-movie-scene-inspired-shape-water/|title=The Iconic Horror Movie Scene That Inspired 'The Shape of Water' – Bloody Disgusting|website=bloody-disgusting.com|date=September 6, 2017|access-date=October 16, 2017}}</ref>
* The fossil species ''[[Eucritta]] melanolimnetes'' ("true creature" + "from the black lagoon") is named after the film.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Clack|first=Jennifer A.|date=2 July 1998|title=A new Early Carboniferous tetrapod with a ''mélange'' of crown-group characters|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=394|issue=6688|pages=66–69|doi=10.1038/27895|issn=1476-4687}}</ref>