Shape of Water (4K Ultra HD)

Cinema’s great modern mythmaker Guillermo del Toro uses the hallmarks of classic horror and fantasy to tell a strange and sublime fable about outsiderhood, connection, and love’s transcendence. An ineffably touching Sally Hawkins plays Elisa, a mute janitor at a top-secret government laboratory who finds herself drawn to the facility’s newest research subject: a humanoid amphibian—for whom she is soon risking everything, amid the stifling conformity of 1960s America. A triumph of visual imagination that combines elements of sci-fi, noir, and the golden-age musical, this swooning cinematic dreamscape—winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director—is a monster movie with a human heart.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED + SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• digital master, supervised by director Guillermo del Toro, with 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• One disc of the film presented in HDR and one with the film and special features
• New conversation between del Toro and filmmaker David Lowery
• A Fairy Tale for Troubled Times, a documentary highlighting the film’s production design, performances, special effects, and score
• Anatomy of a Scene: Prologue and Anatomy of a Scene: The Dance, both featuring on-set footage and interviews with del Toro
• Shaping the Waves, an interview with illustrator James Jean
• Masterclass from 2017 on the film’s technical aspects, featuring del Toro, director of photography Dan Laustsen, visual-effects supervisor and co–creature designer Shane Mahan, visual-effects supervisor Dennis Berardi, costume designer Luis Sequeira, and production designer Paul D. Austerberry
• Trailers
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing and English descriptive audio
• PLUS: An essay by film critic Carlos Aguilar