This movie features a world where the sun beats down on the earth and causes serious burns right away as the ozone is gone. This is done very well of a movie of this type as it does resemble a b movie. The movie also features many unique crazy effects as a house is turned into a very dangerous rain forest type environment as a scientist is trying to find a way to make durable plants and such to stand up to the super harsh climate. He has a son and wife and they have to move around because someone does not approve of the experiments. Well at the new house they arrive at there is an accident right away and right away the house starts to get overrun by the various fungus and plants that the scientist is developing. Meanwhile, the son is having trouble adjusting to school as the school he is attending has the most extreme bullies ever as they not only beat you up if you talk to one of them's girl they stake you in the blistering sun which is why this movie fails, the characters are so unbelievable. The father, the mother and the coach and all the bullies are way to over the top and ruin what could have been an okay movie. Though granted it would have been nothing great considering the severe lack of things to do with a house full of bizarre plant life.

This is clearly one of the worst movies of the 90s. The script is simply terrible and the same can be said of the dialog, the acting, the music and just about everything else - except Lara Harris's face and breasts. At first I thought it was Laura Harris, the chesty beauty from "The Faculty", but I was surprised to find out that there is a Lara and a Laura - who look very similar. Coincidence? Hardly; these two must be sisters. Alice Krige also shows her breasts; they're okay, but kind of small. Why do I dwell on breasts? All in all, their four breasts are the only things worth seeing in this unbelievably bad movie. The premise is okay, it's the execution that sucks. The entire film, from A-Z, from top to bottom, is a 100% amateur venture. For a while the movie refuses to confirm its horror status and delves endlessly in ultra-moronic teen-movie waters; the school's coach is obsessed with boxing, likes to beat up the students he (unexplainedly) dislikes, and here's a first: a movie father who prefers the daughter's boyfriend to the daughter herself! I've never seen anything dumber in any teen movie. Harris's evil boyfriend sees that Getty is eying Harris, so what does he do? His first impulse is to fight her but he hands her over instead! And then Harris starts French-kissing Getty whom she barely knows! I mean, the entire movie is like this. One absurd scene follows another. There is no point in making a list of the silly moments because there would simply be no end to it, and I don't want to be stuck writing about this movie well into next year.

By no means anyone's definition of a good movie, Habitat does manage to put forth a few moments that make it worth sitting through...though only once. It has a pretty unoriginal plot involving a "mad" scientist's attempts to "kick evolution in the butt," though in a movie like this plot doesn't really mean anything. There a few special effects that are laughable, but on the other hand there are some that are quite good. Overall the performances are as bad as the rest of the movie, though Laura Harris shines as Deborah, the girlfriend of Balthazar Getty's character--and I'll admit, her nude scene is pretty swell. Overall, don't bother with this movie unless you are a rabid Laura Harris fan.

OK, let's see if I get this right. In a future where the ozone layer has been depleted, a scientist moves his family out to a desert community where he turns the inside of his house into a lush rainforest that proceeds to grow out of control. Meanwhile, his son faces the slings and arrows of adjusting to life at his new high school where he is pushed around by bullies under the command of the sadistic P.E. teacher. Also, government agents who have deemed biological experiments illegal arrive to destroy the house. That about cover it?There's a pretty neat idea lurking around somewhere in this science fiction/ecological drama/haunted house/love story/teen drama, but it gets pulled in so many directions it just turns into a soupy mess.In fact, now that I think about it, the only thing that really stands out in my mind about this is a delightful skinny-dipping scene with Laura Harris, the cute blonde who would later star in the also lame "The Faculity".