Figueroa Mountain’s Winding Roads Will Star in Grind
House
It’s been the talk of the Santa Ynez Valley for the past two
weeks: Quentin Tarantino, along with Kurt
Russell and other movie stars, have been calling northen Santa
Barbara County home — and they aren’t just on a Sideways-inspired wine-guzzling binge. 
Fiction and other pop culture-shaping hits has been using the
roads of Figueroa Mountain as fodder for the upcoming
film Grind House, which is slated for an April 6
release. (For photos of the film, click here.)
According to numerous reports, Grind House, a word that refers to rundown theaters which play B-movies non-stop, is a
double-feature. Tarantino’s part of the film will be called
Death Proof, a tale of a murderer named Stuntman Mike,
played by Kurt Russell, who hunts down his hot lady victims in a
bad-ass car. (One website says that Mickey Rourke was slated to
play the role before Russell lept in.) The A&E Blog heard through the Buellton grapevine that
the oak forests of the Los Padres National Forest are playing the
backwoods of Virginia.
