For some, $101 means a new pair of shoes, for others, a ticket to their favorite concert and still, for others, the newest gadget. For A. Lawrence Dreyfuss, however, $101 meant the creating of his very own movie — cast, costumes, props, set and all.

“Me and my friends like to watch bad horror movies,” said Dreyfuss, senior in Media. “So, we were watching this movie we had gotten at the video store called ‘Motor Home Massacre,’ and it was so terrible that we’re sitting there and I go, ‘You know, if this can be in a video store, we can make a movie better than this.’”

And so began what became “Slaughter Massacre,” a 63-minute film written and directed by Dreyfuss and produced and performed with the help of his friends.

“Adam, the director, is a good friend of mine,” said Samuel Kearney, junior in engineering who acted in the film and produced the music. “He wanted to make a campy horror movie, so he called up all his friends, and we did it over the summer.”

“It’s presented as a really bad B horror movie,” Dreyfuss said. “It’s definitely funny, but it’s not presented as supposed to be funny. It just is.”

The film, which has 14 actors, is about a group of guys and girls that go to the same high school, Dreyfuss said. One night, the guys are drunk driving and they kill one of the girl’s mothers in a hit-and-run accident. The girls then seek revenge by devising a murder plot in which they draw straws to decide who the murderer will be.

This way, Dreyfuss said, only one person actually does the killing and no one else knows who it is. The girls then lure the guys into the woods for a weekend of camping with the intent of killing them. However, while there, something goes awry.

“It’s fun for the viewer, because you’re trying to figure out who did it,” Dreyfuss said. “You know that one of the girls is trying to kill everyone, but you also realize that some of the girls are starting to get killed. So you know there’s someone else or (wonder) if it’s one of the girls trying to kill all the other girls … It’s definitely a good mystery.”

The film’s world premiere was in January, and then came to the Champaign-Urbana Art Theater on October 20, where the 10 minute sequel, “Slaughter Massacre 2,” was shown for the first time. It is also available on DVD for $10, with commentary and behind-the-scenes features.

“There’s been a lot of people laughing at the theater,” Dreyfuss said. “It’s hard to gage whether people get that it’s intentionally bad or just think that it’s bad. In terms of being so bad (that) it’s funny, I think it is doing really well and that people really like it.”

Whether or not audiences leave the theater laughing, Samuel Sullivan, senior in FAA and makeup artist for the film, still considers it worth viewing.

“I feel like Slaughter Massacre is a great fun thing to watch,” he said. “It’s by no means a brilliant work of art, but it’s really fun and carefree and everyone will have a good laugh if they go see it.”

There will be a free showing of the film at Allen Hall, Dreyfuss said. The date and time still need to be determined.