Well, actually, it's Slasher, a play about making a slasher movie, and Allison Moore's "horrifying comedy," which the Luna Theater Company is presenting at the Walnut Street Theatre's Studio 5, clearly struck me as funnier than it struck some others in the audience.

A pretentious but desperate director (Chris Fluck) arrives in a Texas town (pause for a moment of homage to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) to make, in 20 days, a slasher film called Bloodbath. Dorky, sweet, eager film student Jodi (David Raphaely) applies to be his assistant; so eager is he, he says he'd sell his mother for the job. Director replies, "Is she hot?" Let that be his character note.

Their meeting takes place in a bar where Sheena (Katy O'Leary) works as a waitress. She screams. She's hired, along with her cleavage, cheekbones, and long, blond hair, to be the "last girl," which is to say the star of the movie - she's the last girl killed after all the others have succumbed to the mayhem. But as she's also a marketing major, she's a whip at negotiating her salary.

Meanwhile, back at the grungy house, Sheena's wheelchair-bound mother (Lee Kiszonas) is popping pills, making feminist speeches, and cultivating victim status. The smart - you can tell she's smart because she wears glasses - younger sister (Jen Fellman) tries to deal with this bizarre household.

Things worsen as things tend to, and plots thicken as plots tend to.

We watch rehearsals between the gorgeous O'Leary and Raphaely wearing a grotesque plastic mask - it's always funny when good actors pretend to be bad actors.

We see the movie scenes as they're being shot, with all the not-last girls played by the hilarious Kelly Vrooman, who appears in wig after wig after wig. Watching her eat pretzels while trying to preserve the makeup burn wound on her face is very, very funny. Michael Cosenza's amusing fight choreography has to make the fights and tumult look hokey without being hokey.

The set functions as all the locations, and director Gregory Scott Campbell has figured out a way, on the little Studio 5 stage, to shift the focus (lighting designed by Frank Garcia) and still have us believe it every time somebody comes through (uh-oh) one of the many doors. The conclusion is kind of lame, but far be it from me to give it away.

Slasher

Presented by Luna Theatre Company at Walnut Street Theatre's Studio 5. Through Nov. 14. Tickets $15-$35. Information: 866-811-4111 or www.LunaTheater.org.