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| released = {{Film date|2004|10|19|ref1=<ref name=release>{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LH&s_site=kentucky&p_multi=LH&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=105D302710930867&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Arty Facts, a User's Guide for Culture Vultures|work=[[Lexington Herald-Leader]]|date=2004-10-17|accessdateaccess-date=2013-11-30}}</ref>}}

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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://filmthreat.com/uncategorized/george-bonilla-the-late-great-zombie-planet-earth-2/|title=George Bonilla: The Late, Great "Zombie Planet" Earth|last=Watt|first=Mike|work=[[Film Threat]]|date=2005-01-19|accessdateaccess-date=2019-01-26}}</ref> Scenes were shot at the Bluegrass Aspendale housing project in [[Lexington, Kentucky]]. Bonilla's wife Tammy is the executive producer.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=okhBAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6KgMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1190,2652870&dq=zombie-planet+bonilla&hl=en|title=Filmmaker Shoots Horror Film in Lexington|page=10|work=Middlesboro Daily News|agency=[[Associated Press]]|date=2001-11-19|accessdateaccess-date=2013-11-30}}</ref>

''Zombie Planet'' was distributed by [[J. R. Bookwalter]]'s [[Tempe Entertainment]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmthreat.com/interviews/913/|title=George Bonilla: The Late, Great "Zombie Planet" Earth, Part 2|last=Watt|first=Mike|work=[[Film Threat]]|date=2005-01-19|accessdateaccess-date=2013-11-30}}</ref> It was released on DVD on October 19, 2004.<ref name=release/>

[[Peter Dendle]] called the film "epically awful" and embarrassing for Lexington natives.<ref>{{cite book|title=Zombie Movie Encyclopedia: 2000-2010|last=Dendle|first=Peter|authorlinkauthor-link=Peter Dendle|publisher=[[McFarland Publishing]]|year=2012|isbn=9780786492886|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DG6rK0PE2vIC&pg=PA228}}</ref> David Johnson of [[DVD Verdict]] said that the film is better than most [[Z movie]]s, but its length leads to too much filler.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/zombieplanet.php|title=Zombie Planet|last=Johnson|first=David|work=[[DVD Verdict]]|date=2004-11-11|accessdateaccess-date=2013-11-30|archivedatearchive-date=2004-11-12|archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041112085520/http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/zombieplanet.php}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/12977/zombie-planet/|title=Zombie Planet|last=Gibron|first=Bill|work=[[DVD Talk]]|date=2004-10-28|accessdateaccess-date=2013-11-30}}</ref>