Australian director Richard Grey is making a time-bending thriller for your penis. Entitled Mine Games, the film stars Briana Evigan, Julianna Guill, and Rebecca Da Costa as part of a group of vacationing friends who discover while exploring an abandoned mine that someone’s past actions will kill them all.

Evigan, daughter to Greg Evigan (“B.J. and the Bear”), has starred in such frighteners as Sorority Row, the Donnie Darko sequel S. Darko, and the oh-shit-there’s-a-tiger-in-my-living-room thriller Burning Bright. She’ll next be seen in Darren Lynn Bousman’s Mother’s Day remake and screenwriter W. Peter Iliff directorial debut Rites of Passage.

Guill’s creds include Platinum Dunes Friday the 13th reboot (for which she went topless), MTV’s My Super Psycho Sweet 16: Parts 1 & 2, the in-flight frightener Altitude, and Dark Castle Entertainment’s upcoming Ashley Greene/Sebastian Stan vehicle The Apparition. Both Guill and Evigan made Clatto’s list of The 20 Hottest Women Working in Horror/Sci-fi Today.

Mine Games also stars vagina-less actors Joseph Cross (Untraceable), Ethan Peck (The Sorceror’s Aprentice), Rafi Gavron (“Life Unexpected”), and Alex Meraz (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn). The film is currently in production.

Some people believe that when they lose a loved one they should celebrate that person’s life rather than mourn their passing. That is why some memorial services may include parties, parades, and even live entertainment such as gospel singers.

That’s bullshit. When I die, I want to see tears. Lots of tears. I want to see my family and friends pulling their hair out as they drop to their knees in hysterics and curse the Gods in the sky. I’ll haunt any mofo that just stands around in the background grubbing on mini tacos, sharing embarrassing tales about me.

So imagine my outrage when I discovered that the folks in Taiwan actually hire strippers as a way of saying goodbye to their dead. The service is provided by something called the Electric Flower Car, a troupe of sexy female dancers who strip down to their unmentionables on a neon, mobile stage.

Marc L. Moskowitz, a University of South Carolina anthropologist, documents the EFC events in his new film Dancing for the Dead: Funeral Strippers in Taiwan, currently available for purchase on Amazon.

He tells Io9:

One of the things that I found to be really interesting about this practice was that people’s explanations for why people hired Electric Car Performers varied tremendously.

One person I interviewed told me that it was because a new ghost would get picked on by older ghosts so the performance was to distract the older ghosts to give the newer ghost time to get used to his environment without being harassed.

Other people told me that the lower gods liked this kind of entertainment so that it was for them. Yet others said that the deceased liked that kind of activity when living so they wanted to send him off in style.

OK, I gotta admit, this is actually pretty fucking awesome. I still want tears and agonizing grief at my funeral service. But, next time I find myself in Taiwan with friends, maybe I’ll accidentally push one of them into traffic. What … I’m broke. I can’t afford Cali strippers.

Jennifer Lynch, daughter of renowned director David Lynch (“Twin Peaks”), is currently in Regina, Canada shooting a new serial killer drama entitled Rabbit. Starring in the film are Vincent D’Onofrio, Julia Ormond (pictured above), and newcomer Eamon Farren.

The film’s synopsis reads:

Tim (Farren) is abducted as a young child by a serial killer (D’Onofrio). Now a teenager, Tim learns the only way he may be able to survive is if he follows in the killer’s footsteps. He must make his move to escape before he becomes like the monster that now considers himself his father.

D’Onofrio is best known for his role as Det. Robert Goren on the long-running, recently-ended crime procedural “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” and for his portrayal of emotionally unstable Marine recruit Leonard Lawrence (aka: Gomer Pyle) in Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket.

Ormond’s genre creds include the Lindsay Lohan thriller I Know Who Killed Me and Lynch’s Surveillance. She will next star as Superman’s biological mom in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel. Farren most recently appeared in the Viva Bianca hooker-thriller X.

Unlike Lynch’s Hisss, which got stuck in distribution hell, Rabbit has already locked a deal with Anchor Bay.

Photo: Bryan Adams (yes, that Bryan Adams)

Lesley-Ann Brandt isn’t in Capua anymore.

The former “Spartacus” star is currently on the mean streets of Los Angeles slaughtering the undead with a Katana sword for The Asylum’s new horror-cheapie Zombie Apocalypse. The film, directed by Nick Lyon (Species: The Awakening), costars Ving Rhames (Piranha 3-D), Eddie Steeples (“My Name is Earl”), and Taryn Manning (Manson Girls).

The film’s synopsis reads:

Months after a zombie plague has wiped out 90 percent of the American population, a small group of survivors fight their way cross-country to a rumored refuge on the island of Catalina.

To see BTS shots from the project (including the one seen above), make sure you visit Brandt’s Facebook page.

Brandt, best known for her portrayal of beautiful—and oft nude—house slave Naevia on Starz’ “Spartacus: Blood and Sand” and its prequel “Gods of the Arena,” can also be seen as a recurring on the CBS crime procedural “CSI: NY.”

Zombie Apocalypse is slated for release later this year.

Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi is set to star opposite Charlie Hunnam (“Sons of Anarchy”) in director Guillermo Del Toro’s mecha-influenced robot movie Pacific Rim. Written by Travis Beacham (Clash of the Titans), the film revolves around human-piloted robots built to defend the earth against giant alien creatures.

Kikuchi, best known for her Oscar nominated performance as a horny nude teen in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Babel, will play a robot pilot who teams up with Hunnam after both of their copilots are killed in action.

Pacific Rim marks Del Toro’s return to directing since helming 2008’s Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures have set a July 1, 2013 release date.

AMC has released a morsel of a teaser to whet appetites for season two of its hit Frank Darabont-produced zombie series “The Walking Dead.” The show, which debuted last year to ratings success and critical acclaim, earning a Best New Series nomination at the 2011 Writers Guild of America Awards and a Best Drama Series nom at the 68th Golden Globes Awards, will return in October.

The promo features hero cop Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) putting the dead back to rest. New faces joining the show this season include Lauren Cohan (Death Race 2: Frankenstein Lives), Scott Wilson (Monster), and Pruitt Taylor Vince (Drive Angry 3-D).

Peep the tease:

The buzz around pretty 25-year-old actress Alexandra Daddario just got louder. The star of last year’s fantasy-actioner Percy Jackson and the Olympians is in final negotiations to play the female lead in director John Luessenhop’s (Takers) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3-D, a reboot of the popular franchise.

A sequel of sorts, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3-D is said to pick up after the horrific events depicted in Tobe Hooper’s 1974 original and will reportedly find Daddario playing Leatherface’s cousin. Production on the film is set to start this month in Shreveport, La.

Daddario first cut her teeth in the horror genre with Mary Lambert’s (Pet Sematary) haunted house thriller The Attic, but it’s her intense performance in director Stevan Mena’s gruesome indie-slasher Bereavement that has made horror fans take note of the sexy New Yorker.

Former “Mad Men” starlet Abigail Spencer is heading down the yellow brick road to partake in director Sam Raimi’s Wizard of Oz prequel Oz, the Great and Powerful. Joining her on that journey are James Franco and hotties Rachel Weisz, Michelle Williams and Mila Kunis.

Oz, the Great and Powerful tells the tale of how a lost snake oil salesman and illusionist (Franco) defeats evil witches Theodora (Kunis) and Evanora (Weisz) with the help of  their sister Gilda (Williams) to rule the land of Oz.

Heat Vision exclusively reports that Spencer will play “a young woman who is a willing subject of Oz’s magic tricks which the erstwhile magician is performing in Kansas.” Filming is set to begin later this month in Michigan.

Spencer, best known for her portrayal of Don Draper cock-accessory Suzanne Farrell on AMC’s “Mad Men,” will be seen later this month in DreamWorks’ Cowboys & Aliens. The pretty 29-year-old will also star opposite Katee Sackoff in the Lionsgate sequel A Haunting in Georgia.

Pop singer Joan Osborne may have once made us wonder  “what if God was one of us,” but producer-turned-director Marc Turtletaub (Little Miss Sunshine) is going to paint us a picture with his big-screen adaptation of  British author Marie Phillips’ novel “Gods Behaving Badly.”

The film’s synopsis reads:

The film tells the story of the Greek Gods, alive and well and living in a brownstone in New York City, as they cross paths with a young couple, Kate and Neil. The intersection of the Gods and the mortals threatens not only the couple’s budding relationship, but the future of everything else.

Alicia Silverstone (Clueless) and Ebon Moss-Bachrach (“Damages”) will star as the New York couple. Greek Gods include Christopher Walkin (Zeus), Sharon Stone (Aphrodite), Edie Falco (Artemis), Oliver Platt (Apollo), John Turturro (Hades), Rosie Perez (Persephone), and “True Blood’s” Nelsan Ellis (Dionysus).

Gods Behaving Badly will roll camera later this month in New York.

Model-turned-actress Rebecca Da Costa is set to star in director Kevin Carraway’s (Fear Chamber) time warp thriller Seven Below. She joins a cast that includes Ving Rhames (Piranha 3-DD), Luke Goss (Death Race 2: Frankenstein Lives), and fat Val Kilmer (Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call—New Orleans).

Seven Below centers on four strangers trapped in a house in the woods by a powerful storm that threatens to bring with it a horrible event from the past. The film, once scheduled to shoot in New Mexico, goes into production next month in Cincinnati.

Da Costa has a handful of creds under her garter belt, including last year’s silly horror-indie Trick of the Witch. The 5-foot-11 Latin looker played a fashion model trapped during a shoot in a mansion by malicious supernatural forces.