SINISTER CINEMA

VICTOR IVES
JIMMY HOLLISTER
- "RAVENSCROFT"
- "HEAD"
MARY STARRAT - "BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN"

"Sinister Cinema" was a hosted horror movie show with Victor Ives and assisted by Jimmy Hollister as "Ravenscroft" presenting double feature horror movies on Saturday nights at 11:30 pm on KATU-TV Channel 2 Portland, Oregon for three and a half years, in the mid 1970s. The show included a short serial, followed by a double feature, usually a "classic" film and one "B" film. In one epsiode, Mary Starrat from Channel 2 news came by dressed as the Bride Of Frankenstein. The following is an opening from the show: "Sinister Cinema" - opening from The Professor's Scary Clips on Vimeo. "Sinister Cinema" was a reunion special in 1987, featuring Victor Ives and assisted by Jimmy Hollister as "Ravenscroft" presenting horror movies on KATU-TV Channel 2 Portland, Oregon. The following is the opening for the special: "Sinister Cinema Reunion Special" - opening from The Professor's Scary Clips on Vimeo.

Portrait of "Victor Ives" by Bradley Beard.
"Victor Ives" - biography (taken from Bradley Beard's Facebook page)

He used his actual name, not a pseudonym. Today I present Victor Ives, host of Sinister Cinema on KATU-TV Channel 2 in Portland, OR, which began in 1973. The cast reunited once for the Sinister Cinema Halloween Reunion special in 1987. At the time, Sinister Cinema was Portland's highest rated local program. The show's format was to screen a 15-minute serial followed by a creature double feature. Victor dressed with a cape and presented himself as a sophisticated vampire with a wealth of information about the movie being shown. He was joined by Jimmy Hollister who played two different characters on the show; Ravenscroft, the long-haired bug eyed assistant and Head, the decapitated head on a silver platter. in the words of Victor Ives, "May your nightmares have a happy ending in the final reel."

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