Set Secrets: Don't Give the Corpse Any Lines

The Plot Twists He Made Up All Came True

Whenever I write a screenplay, I mark every character who dies with the words “the corpse will speak.”

The crew called me a freak, until we were filming deep in the mountains...

The first victim’s neck really did speak the line from my script: “The next one... is the props master...”

The assistant director flipped through my screenplay in terror and found every death prediction circled in red. At the bottom of the page was a line in unfamiliar handwriting:

“Did you think... the screenplay was the only thing made up?”