The Bone Eaters
COMEDY DETECTIVE HORROR MYSTERY ROMANCE ALTERNATIVE HISTORY
Contemporary
Keith Faigin
Logline
The Bone Eaters is the story of a private eye/"monster's rights advocate" and the washed-up head of the Chicago P.D.'s Inhuman Crimes Unit who investigate a series of reanimated corpses and stumble into a more dangerous and even more supernatural mystery.
Genre
Comedy, Detective, Horror, Mystery, Romance,Alternative History
Short Summary
In a 1990's America where vampires and werewolves exist, a teenage boy goes missing on a date. In modern Chicago, eccentric private eye Nick Slipwick enlists Amato, the apathetic head of the Police's Inhuman Crimes Unit, to investigate a pair of dancing reanimated corpses.
Nick and Amato triumph over the vampire who runs an unethical pharmaceutical company at an illegal "frankenstein fight club," the fate of the missing teenager is revealed and the girl he left behind finishes her controlled science experiment on why her dates never work out.
Setting
Chicago, Detroit
Based on a True Story
No
Plot - Premise
Overcoming Monster/Villain
Plot - Other Elements
Happy Ending,Character Growth
Mature Audience Themes
Extreme Violence, Language/Profanity
Main Character Details
Name: Nick Slipwick
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Role: Protagonist
Key Traits: Adventurous, Educated, Engaging, Skillful
Additional Character Details
Name: Lieutenant Amato
Age: 60
Gender: Male
Role: Sidekick
Key Traits: Educated, Honorable, Strong Moral Code, Unapologetic, Blunt
Additional Character Details
Name: Stacy Green
Age: 35
Gender: Female
Role: Protagonist
Key Traits: Educated, Empathetic, Funny, Insecure, Skillful, Aspiring, Beautiful
Additional Character Details
Name: Detective Feta
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Role: Antagonist
Key Traits: Aggressive, Aspiring, Extraordinary Powers and Abilities, Insecure, Narcissistic
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