Award-winning special effects guru Greg Strause recently showed off his in-home bunker, or “safe room,” where he and his wife keep survival gear next to a bullet-proof escape window. “There’s a ladder on the ceiling, so if the house were set on fire or it’s too dangerous to go back into the house, we can throw out the escape ladder,” Strause told The Epoch Times during an interview for “California Insider.” The scene is reminiscent of “The Day After Tomorrow” and many other blockbuster sci-fi thrillers he has helped create. The movie executive unlocked a door made of half-inch thick armored steel bullet-proof panels and the armored window that opens to the street. Strause and his wife built the bunker inside their beachside house in Marina del Rey about four years ago after they watched crime in the Los Angeles area and their neighborhood begin to escalate. “We’re at the …