1997 Directed by René Daalder
In order to combat the damage caused by the depletion of the ozone layer, maverick biologist Hank Symes unleashes his most ambitious experiment to date: accelerated evolution. Unfortunately, this not only causes the authorities to take notice, but also creates a backlash from his new neighbors--leaving his son caught in the middle.
Habitat - Es lebt!, Es lebt!, Élőhely, Среда обитания
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Plants and horror, my favourite things. Please make more plant bodyodyody horror.
Accidents in the experimental fungi lab. Spores, spores everywhere.
The whole have a plant for every electronic device in your house advice went too far in this house.
A direct-to-video, post-ozone, sci-fi environmentalist thriller/teen angst melodrama starring Balthazar Getty? I do believe I've found the most 1997 movie of 1997.
Written and directed by the weirdo behind Massacre at Central High and Population One, this one peeks into a day in the life of hipster teen Getty as he struggles to adjust to a new high school where he's tormented by a couple of floppy-haired jocks and hypermasculine gym teacher Kenneth Welsh (somehow playing it considerably less subtly than he did as Windom Earle!). Meanwhile, his hippie/scientist/eco-activist parents have transformed their house into a sentient biosphere that doesn't hesitate to defend itself against unfriendly intruders. Oh, and also, nobody can be outside in the daylight for more than…
Balthazar Getty plays an angsty teenage boy who is moving to a new town. He resents his parents. He clashes with his new classmates. He falls for an unattainable girl. Oh, and it's some kind of apocalypse.
To the best of my understanding, the ozone layer has been completely destroyed, so you can't be out in the sun for more than a couple minutes without cooking. People have evolved to life indoors and underground. Getty's parents are weird science hippies. His dad is working on some kind of plant research when -- suddenly -- oops! He's now an ethereal plant being in their house, which has been transformed into a jungle.
What?
The movie is marketed as a horror film,…
A memorable entry in niche high school post apocalyptic flicks, like Class of 1991, Class of Nuke ‘Em High and Demolition High…but feels infinitely more Canadian. Degrassi: Beyond Thunderdome, but Thunderdome is a destroyed ozone layer. It’s kinda Climate Change meets body horror with an intense early CG chaser.
Balthazar Getty is on the run with his mad botany science parents again. It’s a new town, fresh start, and jungle-free house (for now) but parents have messed with plant genes enough to where dad has literally disintegrated into a pixelated green fart cloud that occasionally organizes into his face and mom has gone full chlorophyll-blooded Gatekeeper Sigourney. They have somehow figured out how to survive the death rays of the sun,…
Unbelievably 90's plant based body horror set in a world where the Ozone Layer is gone and people hide in protected towns. Lots of womb/body style sets with moisture everywhere. Some gratuitous nudity. Balthazar Getty doing a mix of Charlie Sheen and French Stewart.
Silly, but fun.
aka ES LEBT!!
Also man kann ja sagen was man will, aber HABITAT probiert eindeutig was neues.
Kostprobe?
Also die Welt ist im Arsch, alle bekommen Sonnenbrand, die Locations wirken wie aus SUPER MARIO BROS. geklaut, der Vater wird zu einem Insektenschwarm, die Mutter lebt in einem Haus aus Schleim und Pflanzen und in der Schule gibt es den normalen Coming of Age Stress. In diesem Moment ist der Film 15 Minuten alt.
Als hätte man Cronenberg mit John Waters gemischt, ohne den Tiger aus'm Tank zu lassen.
Recht einzigartig
The Important Cinema Club Super Scary Movie Challenge for 2023: Entry #1
Category: A French-Canadian horror film
Genre weirdo Rene Daalder does direct-to-SciFi-Channel nonsense and comes out the other end with... I'm not quite sure, actually, but it comes together pretty well in the end. The middle is real saggy, owing to an overindulge of Balthazar Getty and his squint, mumbly conflicts at Future School with Generic Jock #17. Every time Daalder half-heartedly jumped into this material, I kept thinking how I could be watching a whole movie of Tcheky Karyo turning into mold and Alice Krige floating around a terrarium wearing curtains. But there's enough eventual weirdness (and people being forcibly turned into plants) in the back half to make the trudge worth it.
It really did need a more dynamic performer than Getty in the lead, especially since he's paired off with firecracker Laura Harris.
Ozonschicht futsch. Erde verbrannt.
Folge: Eine dystoptische Zukunftsvision im Genrespagat zum Bully-Teendrama. Das nie auf den grünen Daumen vergisst!
Der verstorbene Vater neuerdings nur noch als Sporenelement unterwegs, gibt sich HABITAT als eigen-art-iges filmisches Experiment, mit schrägen Verhaltensweisen und auffälligen Charakteren - selbst für die 90s.
Die darunterliegende Botschaft streut in etliche Richtungen, von der HEILKRAFT DER NATUR bis zur MUTIERTEN DNA und sorgt bei Nachbarn und Schulkollegen für Aufruhr! Denn genetisch und emotional gibt's unter zusammengeflickten Kulissen effektvoll was zu verdauen. Erst recht wenn das Gewächshaus betreten wird.
"Es lebt!" (Dt. Titel)
Demnach sozial- als auch umweltkritisch und von wilder Pflanzlichkeit durchwuchert! Ein sonderliches Teen-Drama, verwachsen mit unzähligen Genres und verpackt als undefinierbares B-Movie, das im Sci-Fi-Segment gewiss Alleinstellungsmerkmal besitzt.
Diese "nächste Stufe der Entwicklung" sollte man definitiv mal gesehen haben.
Nachttrag: September '20 erschien der VHS-Only Kanditat endlich mal auf DVD... und darf nun auch im Regal Wurzeln schlagen.
I was hoping for weird sci-fi, instead I got weird post-apocalyptic teenage angst.
This Dutch-Canadian co-production is an exceedingly bizarre film. It comes from Dutch-born, Canadian-based director Renee Daalder who once made the cult classic high school revenge drama Massacre at Central High and then did nothing else for a decade before returning with the very obscure Population One whose title may well have referred to the number of people who appeared to have seen it, and then another decade later with Hysteria, a horror film set in an insane asylum, and this. Daalder went on to make a couple of documentaries before his death in 2019.
Habitat is a clear example of the failings of the auteur theory – a case of one filmmaker having been given money and allowed to indulge…
Terrorvision meets The Lawnmower Man.
In other words: my new favorite movie.
