Tim Schafer stated that the true inspiration was drawn from films like Double Indemnity, in which a weak and undistinguished insurance salesman finds himself entangled in a murder plot.[29] The design and early plot are fashioned after films such as Chinatown and Glengarry Glen Ross.[2][7] Several scenes in Grim Fandango are directly inspired by the genre's films such as The Maltese Falcon, The Th