Madhouse #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeMadhouse #3 is a humor anthology containing at least two stories. "The Birth of a Notion" depicts a wild film director attempting to shoot the most extravagant crazy animal picture in history, barking orders to his frantic crew as chaos erupts on set with various mishaps and complaints. A second story involves a doctor character experimenting with magical ink blots that create creatures; after melting ink in hot water, he discovers the blots transform into small beings that multiply and escape, causing him considerable trouble he attributes to "curiosity."
Sara Tann, a young woman with a peculiar condition, becomes the hottest story for the Daily Explosion newspaper when editors decide to send her on an all-expenses-paid adventure through small-town America. As reporters dog her every step looking for the scoop of a lifetime, an unexpected romance blooms—but the newspaper's relentless pursuit of sensationalism threatens to upend everything. It's a wild, madcap romp through 1950s tabloid culture that asks whether a good headline is worth the human cost.
A demented producer-director named Sizzle has the notion to make the greatest jungle picture in history, and he'll stop at nothing—including hauling a boozed-up Humphrey Go-Cart and glamorous Monroelyn Russell off to Africa to shoot it. What unfolds is pure Hollywood madness: temperamental actors, uncooperative crocodiles, and a production so chaotic that no one quite remembers what they're actually filming. When Sizzle's masterpiece finally reaches the screen, the results are hilariously beyond anyone's control—and his dreams take a turn he never saw coming.
When a young Indian brave named Hy'Watha ventures to make peace with the arriving Pilgrims, he finds himself charming John Alden and especially Priscilla—a woman far more interested in food than diplomacy. This humorous take on early American history spirals into an unexpected romance that settles an ancient conflict in the most ridiculous way possible, complete with a wedding that leaves everyone else thoroughly relieved.
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