Sue Brown

Family Demons: The Ghost as Domestic Inheritance by Donna McRae

Low cinematic genres – (as Clover, Williams and Robin Wood and others) have often pointed out – often handle explosive social material that mainstream cinema is reluctant to touch. — Joan Hawkins (1)

Can you make a film about the aftermath of incest and child abuse and its effect on three generations of women in the same family? Would this film contain an inherited ghost running through the narrative that could represent repressed feelings of colonial guilt on another level? Could this film prick the conscience of a nation that might be shuddering in silence for all its past sins? Would you get funding for this film from an Australian funding agency if you didn't have a track record? Would this very serious film fill cinemas, especially Australian ones? Could you get international profile actors to star in your film? Or would Australian film actors like Gracie Otto, Susie Porter, and Wendy Hughes be interested enough to become involved and, moreover, respect your vision? And, last, but most importantly, as an emerging filmmaker, could you be guaranteed complete control over your creative decisions? ...

Written and Directed by Ursula Dabrowsky
Produced by Sue Brown
Featuring Cassandra Kane, Kerry Reid, Alex Rafalowicz

Another new Australian indie that combines atmosphere and storyline for one hell of a mindfuck, Family Demons takes alcoholism and child abuse to a chilling level of consequences. Poor young Billie is a teenage girl with a crappy mom – she drinks, beats Billie, chains her to the bathroom toilet, brings home vile men for cheap sex, and never bothers to stock the cabinets with any food. No longer able to exist with quiet desperation, Billie decides to take steps to remove herself from her abusive situation. Only, because of horrific and diabolical reasons, Billie will never, ever be able to leave her mother – no matter what she tries...

Family Demons, the award-winning psychological horror film produced by Sue Brown and directed by Ursula Dabrowsky, has been picked up for worldwide distribution by IFM World Releasing Inc, the US/Australian international film and TV sales company!

Billie (Cassandra Kane) kills her violent alcoholic mother (Kerry Reid) in a fit of fury and repressed anger. Helped by her boyfriend Sean (Alex Rafalowicz) she plans on getting out of town and heading for the big city but her mother’s vengeful, evil ghost will not let her go....

Ursula Dabrowsky just won 'Best Director' at A Night of Horror Film Festival in Sydney, Australia for her horror film Family Demons.

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