Plan 9 (2015)

 
When pilot Jeff Trent reports a meteor headed for the small town of Nilbog, the local Sheriff's department is not much impressed by what they take to be a silly prank. There's no sign of anything crash-landing, after all.

Unfortunately for Nilbog, Jeff's report was legitimate. The 'meteor', however, was actually an alien spaceship, which has secretly landed at an abandoned school just outside of town. The invaders have detected dangerous experiments occurring on Earth, and are here to obliterate us before we can obliterate ourselves. Or something like that, anyway. It is perhaps a bit much to expect coherent plans from aliens whose default strategy is "animate the recently dead as zombies".

Now it's up to the good people of Nilbog to stop the aliens and their zombie minions, before the US government does executes its usual zombie movie strategy of annihilating everything.

While clearly inspired by Ed Wood's notorious Plan 9 from Outer Space, this low budget SF film also seems to borrow some ideas from George Romero's The Crazies.  The latter is much more of a downer film and may contribute to this movie's rather confused character.  Is this a goofy parody of overwrought low-budget zombie films, or just an overwrought low-budget zombie film itself?

I'm of the opinion that a good parody has to be a good example of what it is parodying - that's why films like Galaxy Quest and The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra work as well as they do - but a good parody also have to be funny, and that's a criteria where I think this film falls short.