10 Movies Where The Hero Was Dead All Along

Not all movies with dead heroes are any good at all, but this 2013 Nicholas Sparks adaptation makes such bizarre use of the "dead all along" twist that it really begs to be seen.

Safe Haven is a pretty typical Sparks romantic drama for the most part, focused on a troubled woman, Katie (Julianne Hough), who crosses paths with a dreamy widower, Alex (Josh Duhamel), leading to a steamy love affair.

But their romance wouldn't be complete without an extra piece of the puzzle - the approval of Alex's dead wife Carly. But how does the movie achieve this, you ask?

By giving Katie a friend, Jo (Cobie Smulders), who in the film's twist ending is actually revealed to be the ghost of Carly, and was effectively trying to bring Alex and Katie together over the course of the movie, even leaving Alex an encouraging letter to give to Katie before she died.

It's completely insane, and yet within the film's own twisted logic, Carly basically ensures the cute couple get their happy - if demented - ending.