Habitat is a 1997 science fiction film produced for the direct-to-video market and shown on the Sci Fi Channel.

The film's message is largely one of ecological warning, mixed with science fiction elements of genetic engineering, family angst and redemption.

It is the only theatrical movie[clarification needed] filmed in Sony's early analog High Definition format.

[1] In a future where the Earth's ozone layer is severely decreased in size, the Symes family is on the run from the father's former employers and the government.

They stop in a desert community to hide out and continue work when a terrible accident occurs that transforms Hank into a fantastic ethereal lifeform and begins changing the house into a huge botanical biosphere entity which has the ability to threaten all who enter.