The star of the show has arrived and has been suitably splattered with blood and mud.
Eleven-year-old Florida actress Sophie Gonzalez was at Whananaki North yesterday, starring as the lead actress in the first stage of filming for the movie R: Rage of the Zombies.
The film takes place 20 years after the apocalypse, where the world has been ravaged by a zombie outbreak and resources are running low, making the zombies even more crazed by their hunger.
American director Fred Potts said the film's point-of-difference was the super terrifying Lone Creature, which even the zombies feared.
Mr Potts said Sophie, who had her parents in tow, would be in New Zealand for two weeks initially.