Fox Searchlight has released a trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s critically acclaimed creature-feature, The Shape of Water. Sally Hawkins (Godzilla) plays a lonely deaf woman working as a janitor in a government lab who falls for a merman being used in top secret experiments during the Cold War, circa 1962 America.

Judging by the trailer, there won’t be many endearingly awkward lobster dinners between the pair being that researchers have their own plans for the creature. The Shape of Water is written by del Toro and Vanessa Taylor (Divergent). It arrives in theaters Dec. 8

Peep it: