Donuel, did you see the remake? It looked great. What a book! I'd love to see a movie made from The Trouble With Lichen, too. I think they did make Village of the Damned, that was fun too.

Meanwhile, I love all monster-insect movies and world-ending natural disaster movies - there's a great one about cockroaches growing to look like humans and only the autistic kid figuring it out, there is that Pierce Brosnan one with the hot springs that boil the young couple, there is a Tommy Lee Jones one with lava flows, love'm all. Them. Arachnophobia. 2012, which I have only seen parts of but it looked like a ton of fun. Giant asteroids. But the best is always the giant insects.