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On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every day of the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. The Free Movie of the Day we have to share with you today is writer/director Ursula Dabrowsky’s 2014 Australian serial killer film Inner Demon. You can check it out over on the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.

Inner Demon has the following synopsis:

A teenage girl is abducted by a serial killer couple and manages to escape and find refuge in an isolated farmhouse, only to discover it is home to greater horrors and a malevolent spirit.

According to the trivia section of the movie’s IMDb page, Inner Demon is “loosely based on the Truro murders in which seven women were hunted down and murdered...

There’ll be no room for idle hands when production begins on Ursula Dabrowsky’s The Devil’s Work in South Australia.

The third film in her Demon Trilogy will be filmed across just five nights in December, as opposed to the two weeks it took to shoot predecessor Inner Demon in 2012 and the four-week schedule for 2009’s Family Demons.

Headlining the cast are two leads from the previous films, Cassandra Kane and Sarah Jeavons, who play feuding sisters in a story that chronicles a young couple’s weekend away at a remote cottage. What begins as a romantic escape soon turns into a harrowing fight for survival as they are terrorised by an unhinged, homicidal sibling.

They are joined by Mark Fantasia (The Tourist) who has returned to Adelaide after an eight-year stint in Los Angeles.

Written and directed by Dabrowsky, the project will also feature Maxx Corkindale as director of photography,...

Birds of Prey may not have set the box office on fire, but it received good reviews from audiences and critics. One of the aspects that drew particular praise was the action scenes, which were like a cross between a gritty John Wick action montage mixed with Deadpool-style violent humor. In an interview, director Cathy Yan revealed the action was initially going to be even more out there.

"When you set an action sequence in an evidence room, it's really fun and you can come up with so much stuff. We had so many different ideas. At one point [screenwriter] Christina Hodson wanted a giant double-ended [adult toy] that [Harley] had to fend off. I wanted her to have a big fluffy bear stuffed with drugs that she used as a pillow to fight with. We had to show some sort of restraint. It's a cheeky movie - unapologetically so."

The evidence room...

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The long-awaited DVD-release of Family Demons, directed by Ursula Dabrowsky, is happening in video stores across Australia on June 23, 2010. Family Demons is a psychological horror film about an abused teenage girl who murders her alcoholic mother and is horrified to discover that the mother’s vengeful spirit returns to haunt her.

Family Demons won the Best Australian Director Award at the 2009 A Night of Horror International Film Festival, Best Foreign Film and Best Actress (Cassandra Kane) at Fright Night Film Fest, and was a finalist at the 2009 DigiSPAA awards. Read Our Review. More news on releases in other nations as we hear it!

Director: Ursula Dabrowsky.

Writer: Ursula Dabrowsky.

Family Demons is a Saylavee horror production that will be released in North America through Ifm Films. Rich in family dysfunction, violence and abuse Family Demons has qualities similar to Greek tragedy. In the film Billie (Cassandra Kane) plays the heroine who has a tragic fall due to her philia or love for her mother. Her fall is caused by her philia and a curse that haunts others in her family (mental disorder).

The film is centrally about Billie and the abuse she experiences at the hands of her mother (Kerry Reid). Her abuse continues a cycle of mental illness that actress Kerry Reid brilliantly shows in her alcoholism and neglect for her young daughter. The mother is haunted by her own demons, but it is Billie's failing attempts to reconcile with her mother that drives the show.

The heroine Billie finds hope in...

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,...

Family Demons is an indie' film from Australia that has recently been picked up by Ifm World Releasing for worldwide distribution. The film really packs the fun into both family dysfunction and this first trailer, which can be seen below. A North American release date is awhile off, but a brief description of the film's heroine can be found courtesy of Fangoria: "a young woman violently fighting for her life." Family Demons is a must see film as early reviews are very positive. As well, the first trailer shows director Ursula Dabrowsky's flare for the dramatic. Have a look at all the details for Family Demons past the break.

The synopsis for Family Demons:

"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...

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...

Kerry Reid is beyond vile as the depressingly familiar figure of Mom; alcoholic, broke, aging, unhappy, and always inebriated. Taking out her frustrations in her child in violent ways,...

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....

A real nail biter, this Australian production has already won ”Best Australian Director” at the 2009 Night of Horror Film Festival and was nominated as a finalist in the 2009 DigiSPAA awards.

watch the trailer:...

According to its own press kit, Family Demons is "a psychological horror film about an abused teenage girl who murders her alcoholic mother and is horrified to discover that the mother's vengeful spirit returns to haunt her. Even in death, the mother is hell bent on denying her daughter's freedom."

Shot on location in Adelaide, South Australia, writer/director Ursula Dabrowsky cites The Sixth Sense, Carrie, Ju-on (The Grudge) and Tobe Hooper's Texas Chainsaw Massacre among her influences on Family Demons. Never merely re-shooting scenes from popular films, Dabrowsky has used her influences to create a film that is at times atmospheric, kinetic, haunting and visceral.

Rather than slicing through the typical cast of characters, Dabrowsky takes the time to establish each character and their relationship with Billie (played by Cassandra Kane). Billie is in her late teens, and is constantly reminded by her alcoholic mother (played by Kerry Reid...