Karen Packer: The Teenage Girl Behind The Brown Door

Karen Packer: The Teenage Girl Behind The Brown Door is a 1982 American mockumentary film directed by Emily Matthews. In this, a documentary-style followed Karen (Hailey Matthews) for a week as she about her investigates something. Dennis Simmons played her father, Mick, Kathy Packerson (Hailey's best friend) played her best friend, Teri, and Emily (Hailey's real mom) played Karen's mother. As part of Karen's band "Brooklyn Teens", her real-life older brother, Daniel Johnson (George Johnson's eldest son) played drums.

History
Karen Packer: The Teenage Girl Behind The Brown Door was originally produced on videotape as a 30-minute WPIX-11 television special. It was shot in late-September 1982. Matthew's mother met Golden Nugget Studios manager Paul T. Lee where the Karen Packer project was discussed; Lee was inspired to produce the special for the rights to release it to movie theaters as a short film. The special was transferred from videotape to 35mm film and shortened to 18 minutes for the release, along with Monster House as the main feature.

Home media
When Monster House was released by Golden Nugget Studios' short-lived home media company, Golden Nugget Home Entertainment in mid-1983, the short 35mm version of Karen Packer: The Teenage Girl Behind The Brown Door was shown before the main feature.

In 1986, Media Home Entertainment released Karen Packer: The Teenage Girl Behind The Brown Door as an original 30-minute videotape version.

Shout! Factory released Monster House along with this film on Blu-Ray in 2015. This release also has videotape version and short 35mm version.