The SiniSisters, Milly Sanders and Jessee Foudray, began posting horror shorts on Youtube toward the end of 2016, releasing five in total by the following year. The concepts were varied, from a manipulative weight loss voodoo doll to the violent conversion of a Christmas curmudgeon, but they shared a common spirit of familiar horror themes with a healthy dose of dark humor and social commentary. Alas, in May 2017, the final short was posted and the channel went dark for nearly 2 years.

Well, now they’re back, along with frequent collaborators Matt Thiesen and Justin Lee, to bring us their most ambitious project to date—Casting Couch. We open to a montage of actors from different time periods auditioning for various roles, each in front of the same peach floral-print couch. This functions as our exposition, introducing us to the carnivorous couch, with its eternal hunger for aspiring nubile actor flesh, but is also a great sequence in its own right with impeccable period-appropriate costuming and color-grading.

Fast-forward to present day and The SiniSisters are seen auditioning for a role in front of that very same couch, creating a sense of dread over whether our heroines will be able to escape the trap that has been laid for them, all the while parodying the supposedly enlightened post-”Time’s Up” film industry. This is personified in the skeevy director, played by David Stanbra, who lays the virtue signaling on thick to try and lull them into a false sense of security.

Casting Couch is quite possibly their finest work to date, with all of the charm of their previous work along with notable improvements in the production. The couch itself is a feat of gloriously cheesy special effects, a twisted rendition of Chairy from Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, the sort of thing you might expect to see if 1980s Peter Jackson directed Death Bed: The Bed That Eats. It’s everything we’ve come to expect from a SiniSisters production, an important message about power dynamics and exploitation wrapped up in a plot about an ancient man-eating couch that occasionally grows spider arms. If that doesn’t appeal to horror fans of every stripe, then I just don’t understand this community anymore.