Zombie Planet

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Zombie Planet
Directed by George Bonilla
Screenplay byGeorge Bonilla
Produced byRussell Coy II
Tammy Bonilla
Douglas Campbell
Xyliena Praetor
StarringFrank Farhat
Christopher Rose
Matt Perry
Rebecca Minton
Karl Gustav Lindstrom
CinematographyBilly W. Blackwell
Todd Burrows
Jon Shelton
Roy M. White
Edited bySven Granlund
Matthew Perry
Music byKlevin Scott
Production
company
ZP Productions
Distributed by Tempe Entertainment
Release date
  • October 19, 2004 (2004-10-19) [1]
Running time
119 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Zombie Planet is a 2004 American horror film directed and written by George Bonilla. Frank Farhat stars as a zombie hunter in a post-apocalyptic world. The film also stars Christopher Rose, Matt Perry, Rebecca Minton, and Karl Gustav Lindstrom.

Contents

Premise

After a pharmaceutical company develops a new wonder drug, its customers turn into zombies. T. K. Kane, a mysterious outsider, arrives in a community terrorized by local warlord Adam. Kane protects the community and hunts down the zombies plaguing the community.

Cast

Production

Director George Bonilla was inspired to make a zombie film after moving to Kentucky and finding a supportive independent film community there. Bonilla believed that zombies created from a defective drug would allow for a wide variety of effects on people, and allowed him to write in both feral and intelligent zombies. The cast and crew were mainly made up of people with no experience in filmmaking. [2] Scenes were shot at the Bluegrass Aspendale housing project in Lexington, Kentucky. Bonilla's wife Tammy is the executive producer. [3]

Release

Zombie Planet was distributed by J. R. Bookwalter's Tempe Entertainment. [4] It was released on DVD on October 19, 2004. [1]

Reception

Peter Dendle called the film "epically awful" and embarrassing for Lexington natives. [5] David Johnson of DVD Verdict said that the film is better than most Z movies, but its length leads to too much filler. [6] Bill Gibron of DVD Talk rated the film 3/5 stars and said that "there are kernels of creativity and outright cleverness in this big, sloppy ersatz-spectacle." [7]

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