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INNERSPACE Sci-fi satires may finally be B.O. poison, but Director Joe Dante knows how to send the genre out (and up) in a blaze of tangled plots, visual bravura and comic-book savvy...
Most of the panicked commuters clawed and stampeded their way to safety. But 30 people perished in the blaze, almost all of them on the circular ticket concourse at the top of the escalator, most within yards of exit doors. Eighty more were injured, twelve critically, by the intense heat and smoke. The fire was by far the worst in the 124-year history of the London Underground. Until last week's disaster, in fact, only four passengers had died in subway blazes since World War II. But the solid reputation of the city's venerable "Tube" is now under...
...sense that the disaster need not have been so enormous, the chaos so complete. For almost an hour after the fire erupted, trains continued to pull into King's Cross, some still discharging passengers. Confused station workers directed several passengers onto an escalator that headed directly into the blaze. "The ceiling above was on fire and debris was falling down, but the escalator was still moving," complained Passenger Andrew Lea, who was able to get off the death belt...
...prison was not considered safe enough to allow firefighters in the compound until about 7:30 p.m., when six fire trucks lined up to go inside. By that time, the fire had spread from the prison industry building but officials released no details on the extent of the blaze...
...violence of the night culminates in the older brother's dreamlike murder of the man he first thought to be his father and in the two brother's building of a live funeral pyre for their mother, who abandoned them, and her live-in lover. The two watch the blaze in wonderment from a backyard ditch, as children see a Christmas tree light up and an insect burn in the glare of a magnifying glass...