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By Abby LaMarre

On the south side of Chicago at the helm of prohibition, a horror writer finds herself torn between two worlds when she stumbles upon a speakeasy run by vampires.

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1 Reviews | 58 pages | 6 years ago | Draft 1
2018 Screencraft Pilot Launch Competition Quarterfinalist; 2018 Austin Film Festival Second Rounder

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A lady finds herself in a time when women's career is practically a joke but has to do everything she can to keep hers'.
Honestly, the Concept doesn't appeal to me. It is safe to say it is okay. The 1920's, vampire, mafia and a female lead in the middle of it all. But I'm just one person and that doesn't mean it is bad. Just that the story didn't take the direction I thought it would. The concept is original though. I have not seen this one before.
The logline got me to want to read it in the first place and it started well. Now I see why it got to the quarter fin...
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