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I would go for The Omen for #2 if it weren't for the fact that you've probably crossed it off already.
3 sounds suspiciously like The Crazies...I remember a scene like that from the movie.
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Seen "The Omen"; definitely not it.
Definitely not "Antz"; wasn't animated.
As for "The Crazies", it's a definite possibility. Will have to look it up, although I think it's probably the original.
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Number #2 Sounds more like the movie Firestarter, though that movie came out in 1983 (I think).

I've got three that cross my mind from time to time, pretty sure they are all movies:
1. A movie about ants that build these pillars or towers; possibly Phase IV; I'll check that out when I get a chance.
2. A movie about an evil kid who manages to fool almost everyone, but the one person he can't fool he kills in the end by burning a building (a barn?) down on him. No, not "The Good Son"; this was definitely earlier than that, it had a "filmed in the 70s" feel.
3. A horror movie about a family in the countryside that gets infected (possibly by something in the water?). The kids manage to stay uninfected, but some visitors show up and get eaten. I specifically remember one scene where the man from a couple manages to escape to the shed, lights a match to look around, it burns down to his fingers, he lights another one and an infected woman is standing behind him.
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