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San Francisquito Canyon
“I didn’t know that what I was looking for, I drove through a large suburban area and found myself in the middle of nature in the blink of an eye, on San Francisquito Canyon Road, which winds like a river through the hills and forest.”
Paul Tremblay (The Cabin at the End of the World)
A mathematics professor, Paul Tremblay became a writer out of passion. Already author of books such as A Head Full of Ghosts andSurvivor Songthe American novelist has known a new consecration with The Cabin at the End of the World, that M. Night Shyamalan has adapted to the cinema with Knock at the cabin in 2023.
A remote site
Sabrina is one of the four individuals who take Andrew, Eric and their little daughter Wen hostage, asking them to sacrifice one of them to prevent the end of the world. As the world’s disasters unfold, Sabrina tells Eric and Andrew how one day she had an epiphany while visiting the site of the San Franciscquito Dam disaster in the canyon of the same name.
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“The closed road follows the remains of the San Francisquito Dam, which collapsed one night in March 1928, propelling giant blocks of cement and billions of gallons of water into the valley, wiping out ranches and homes, killing more than four hundred people, carrying bodies to the Pacific.”
Paul Tremblay wanted to anchor his apocalyptic tale in the history of the United States, by mentioning a little-known catastrophe that occurred near Santa Clarita in 1928. The remains of this disaster are still visible today, even though the site is officially closed to traffic.
End of a world
Paul Tremblay, as he states in the acknowledgments of his novel, had the opportunity to visit the site of the San Francisquito dam disaster. A place from which he built the character of Sabrina. This detail was not included in M. Night Shyamalan’s film, Knock at the Cabin.
The Cabin at the End of the World won two awards: the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel and the Locus Award for Best Horror Novel.
San Francisquito Canyon
Winding between the Sierra Pelona mountains in California, the San Francisquito Canyon joins the Santa Clarita Valley near Los Angeles.
A former mining site for Spanish missionaries when they were panning for gold in California, this canyon was the site of the construction of the San Francisquito Dam. The latter being tragically famous for having yielded on March 12, 1928. An unprecedented disaster that claimed the lives of 431 people. The ruins are still visible.
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