The Haunting of Sunshine Girl is a Web video series that follows two women and their paranormal experiences.
Like other YouTube series it starts off with a low budget and basic, personal/webcam style. For instance, this scene from a bathroom, or this nicely creepy daytime incident:
Sunshine offers lots of nice, knowing Gothic touches, from locating many scenes in the bathroom to a potent hidden object. Good, low-budget multimedia creepiness as well, like unsettling audio, mysterious correspondance, disturbing digital glitches, ghost-photo-style pasted-in images, and EVP:
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The whole story is divided into chapters, of which I've only worked through the first two ("The Original Haunting", "Haunted Hotel Road Trip") so far. Chapters consist of dozens of short clips, each usually preceded by explanatory or epigraphic title cards.
Overall it reminds me of young adult fiction, partly due to the emphasis on the teenage daughter's perspective.
(thanks to Sally Gilman)
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