Monster Madhouse Live
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Monster Madhouse is an American
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 public-access television
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 cable TV and Internet horror movie program. The show is hosted by horror host Karlos Borloff, played by Washington DC native Jerry Moore.

History

Monster Madhouse debuted in 2006 as a featured group of monster hunters or Monsterminators led by Borloff (Moore).

For the first three years, Monster Madhouse was produced live from FCCTV studios in Falls Church, Virginia. The live show was also simulcast live on the Internet, making Monster Madhouse Live the first horror hosted movie program that was broadcast both live on television and the Internet as a simulcast event. The program shows are public domain films, "B" monster movies, and old black and white horror film from the 1960s and 1970s. New two hour episodes of Monster Madhouse are produced about every three weeks and syndicated out to a series of stations across the country, then is edited to a half hour 'magazine' shows and posted on Internet video sites such as Veoh and YouTube.

"Borloff" and the show were both featured in spring 2008 on the NBC show The Tonight Show
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 by host Jay Leno
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 with Borloff and a short MML clip being shown, and was featured in the 2009 documentaries Virginia Creepers
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 and Every Other Day is Halloween. The show has received two Telly Awards - in 2008 and in 2010.

Guests

Filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman
Lloyd Kaufman
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 (2008) and professional wrestler Nikolai Volkoff
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 (2010) have both appeared on the Monster Madhouse set, as well as guest appearances by other television horror hosts such as Count Gore DeVol, Dr. Sarcofiguy from Spooky Movie Television, Jebediah Buzzard from "Fright Time Funhouse," Cinema Insomnia
Cinema Insomnia
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s Mr. Lobo
Mr. Lobo
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 and The Bone Jangler from Chicago. Bands, local personalities, and the general public are also encouraged to join the show, via an open door policy, and Borloff has interviewed and performed with many celebretities at Conventions and Film Festivals, like Tom Savini
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, Sid Haig
Sid Haig
Sid Haig is a American actor. His roles have included acting in Jack Hill's blaxploitation films of the 1970s as well as his role as Captain Spaulding in Rob Zombie's horror films House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects...

 and Herschell Gordon Lewis
Herschell Gordon Lewis
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.

Current characters

  • Karlos Borloff
  • Sasha Trasha
  • Lizard Man
  • Slo Frank
  • Beuregard J. Pettigrew
  • Son of Borloff (S.O.B.)
  • Freaky Daddy
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