In Habitat, the worst ecological nightmares have come true. What’s left of the ozone layer is barely enough to prevent the world burning up. The air is yellow and the people spend their days indoors, waiting for the night to get some fresh air. Microbiologist Hank Symes (Balthazar Getty, known from Natural Born Killers) is obsessively searching for a way to make the world habitable again. The brilliant scientist is however more or less excommunicated by the establishment in his field and he moves with wife and children to a small town where he resumes his experiments with synthetic life forms and accelerated evolution. His dream of creating a Garden of Eden amid the deserts is destroyed after an explosion; his house is turned into a mountain of slime and he himself undergoes a metamorphosis into a new life form. His son Andrew, who always felt slightly ill at ease with the eccentric behaviour of his parents, now really is the victim of bullying at school. Only one girl stays on his side when the locals storm the house to put an end to the building come to life. But Mother nature has never hit back so hard.Daalder shot his ecological science-fiction horror film on Digital High Definition, making it possible for him to realise spectacular special effects.
