Forget the Mare in Jaws

As a kid, I assumed the film was just entertainment and that grown-ups knew homes should be fit for human habitation. But would anyone greenlight a movie in which two US states are blighted by a toxic train wreck? Would audiences believe a plot involving a London tower block wrapped in cladding that helped it burn? Horror movies, disaster movies, exciting, but you don't want to live there. Regular inspections of infrastructure can prevent mass casualty events like being poisoned by unsafe food or having storm drains haunted by demonic clowns who do things with balloons. And in an apparently chaotic Britain, life might be a cinematic thrill ride.