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 investigating 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", were her real life older brother, Daniel Johnson (George Johnson's eldest son).

History
Karen Packer: The Teenage Girl Behind The Brown Door was originally produced on videotape as an 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 for short film. The special was transferred from videotape to 35mm film and shortened to 18 minutes for the release along with Monster House as a main feature.