![]() Tarantino was unavailable for comment for this article. ![]() “He doesn’t have anything to prove, so he is open and willing to receive collaboration.” “My proudest moments are, among them, with Tarantino’s movies, because I get to go out and be creative,” says Oliver. Oliver recalls that the film’s Two Pines Wedding Chapel, which is set in El Paso, Texas, wasn’t definitively fleshed out in the script. Lucky for Kill Bill assistant location manager Kyle ‘Snappy’ Oliver, that wasn’t the case when he happened upon the Spanish mission-style church. When asked if he would have allowed the filmmakers to use the church, had he owned it when Kill Bill was made, Castaneda says, “I would have said, definitely and plainly, ‘No.’” A technician and mechanic by trade, Castaneda had had enough of Los Angeles and wanted a quieter lifestyle in the countryside prior to buying the church. ![]() “My purpose of opening this building was only, especially, for having worship,” says Castaneda. The grey-bearded pastor admits that the bloody affair that is the cinematically notorious "Massacre at Two Pines" is not up his alley, and he had no intention of renting the building as a filming location when he bought it. I can say this is a working church and, in parenthesis, a movie set.” The Sanctuary Adventist Church, aka ‘the Kill Bill Church,’ 19809 East Ave G, Hi Vista. “I have never been into movies,” says Castaneda. Upon purchasing it in February of 2003, Castaneda wasn’t told anything of a movie having just been through there, nor was he made aware of any previous films that used the location. He didn’t own the building when Tarantino made Kill Bill. “For me it was very impressive to pull up here.”Ĭastaneda never actually answers the Canadians’ question of how the filmmakers came to shoot at the church. “This was one of our highlight stops,” says Babore. to Vegas, where they will then fly home to Montreal. The two Tarantino fans are driving from L.A. It’s a question that Maria Colantonio and Tony Babore ask Castaneda after pulling up at the church shortly after I arrive. The church’s remote location in Hi Vista, a sparsely populated, unincorporated Los Angeles County desert community outside of Lancaster, makes for an inspiring (and exhausting) adventure that makes you wonder how the filmmakers even found the place. ![]() Though I’ve been to the church before, it nevertheless feels so far that I begin to question whether I’ve passed it without noticing, but GPS shows that I’m still a ways out. I sometimes strain to read the street signs while stopping at an intersection where the cross street blurs into infinity. The sunlight bouncing off the faded grey, two-lane road starts to do funny things to my eyes. Once I’m out of Lancaster city limits, I don’t see a single speed limit sign. While his directions into the high desert have a few less maneuvers than what GPS specifies, the long road traveled is no less draining on the senses. Upon making arrangements to visit the Sanctuary Adventist Church, pastor and owner Oscar Castaneda voluntarily gives me what he says is the most streamlined route from L.A. It’s even pinpointed on Google maps as "The Kill Bill Church." The Sanctuary Adventist Church - its actual name - has been written about in countless blogs over the last two decades. Twenty years after the release of the first installment of Quentin Tarantino’s pop-saccharine, action-revenge saga Kill Bill, the location of the film’s infamous Two Pines Wedding Chapel is no secret. ![]()
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