Damaged Goods

Starring:Angela Nicole Babb, William Salyers, Michael Taylor Donovan, Colin O'Connor, James Lapan, Kady Douglas
Director: Jason Francois
Studio: Vanguard Cinema
Product Type: DVD

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Damaged Goods Surf DVD by Showdown Productions

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Its not high-concept, its high performance! The ultimate pump-up video, featuring the twelve best surfers in the world! Push play, Pump Up, Paddle Out! When old farts like Stacy Peralta talk about surf porn, this is what they meanand it should be considered a code word for high-performance, state-of-the-art ripping vs. Hollywood budgets and literary midgets droning on endlessly and dropping bits of trivia. From Pete Friedens freshest clips comes Damaged Goods, a throwback to the roots of what surf videos are all about. If you want to go snooze in a theater with a bunch of civilians from the Mid-West and hear big wave hellmen talk about surfing like its a new religion or longboard Lake Michigan, this is not the movie for you. Andy Irons, Kelly Slater, Bruce Irons, Mick Fanning, Taj Burrow, Joel Parkinson, Jamie OBrien, Chris Ward, Cory Lopez and many more show up, blow up around the world and return home as Damaged Goods. Surf your way into summer with a shot of adrenaline to your dome and get ready to punt an air, lay down a rail or throw your tail. Running Time: 40 Mins. + 20 Mins. Bonus!

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Gut-Wrenching Rape Scene!

Damaged Goods
Starring: Angela Nicole Babb , William Salyers , Michael Taylor Donovan , Colin O'Connor , and James Lapan
Director: Jason Francois
Manufacturer: Vanguard Cinema
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Gut-Wrenching Rape Scene!.......2002-10-02

I read where the director, Jason Francois, who also wrote it -- actually got ill in the stomach as he was filming the scene. It film also has a terrific REVERSAL too. Check it out.

A classic In A Closed Space Thriller!

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Jim and Judy can't wait to get married, but Jim and his pals take in the sleazy charms of a strip club where Jim loses his virginity to a hooker. Oops! Judy cancels the wedding plans when poor Jim thinks he#s "caught something" which his doctor confirms i

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"There ought to be a law against her.".......2007-04-07

How on earth do you rate a cheesy double feature of glorified sex education films? This is the dilemma that faced me after watching the 2-for-1 DVD from Something Weird Video--"Damaged Goods/The Hard Road." Do I rate these films on artistic merit? Educational potential? Campiness? I finally decided to land on the entertainment value of these two films, and for me, the entertainment value wasn't much....

I love Something Weird Video, and their intro trailer alone is worth the price of a DVD, but "Damaged Goods" and "The Hard Road" are scrapping the bottom of the barrel. Of the two features, "Damaged Goods" (AKA V.D.) has the better plot and a more traditional story line (which isn't saying much). The story focuses on Jim (Mory Schoolhouse) and Judy (Charlotte Stewart)--two 17-year-old high school students who can't wait to graduate and "grow up." A new girl at the school, Kathy (Dolores Faith) acts as a sort of femme fatale, and this all combines to drive Jim off the deep end. A stripper named Bubbles, a prostitute and a weenie roast are elements of this cheese-fest--and it's all, apparently, a marvelous opportunity to drag in a doctor who delivers a lecture about sexually transmitted diseases--complete with handy-dandy diagrams (courtesy of U.S. Public Educational Health Services Film).

"The Hard Road" is an even worse film than "Damaged Goods", and that means I liked it more. This tawdry tale is the story of 17-year-old Pam, and the film begins with her pregnant, in the back seat of her parents' car. After giving the baby up for adoption, Pam (Connie Nelson) begins her deep descent on the iniquitous road to Hades, and it's a bumpy ride involving swinging parties, bead curtains, various illegal substances and an extensive wardrobe of caftans. With cameras zooming in and out of bedroom scenes, Pam soon has more men than I've had hot dinners. Well these were the swinging 60s, after all.

Ultimately, these two forgettable titles are artifacts, and it's obvious that "Damaged Goods" and "The Hard Road" are both "fluff" content built around the educational venereal disease lectures spliced into each film in a stop-the-madness sort of way. The most hilarious aspect of these films is imagining the reactions of a high school class being forced to watch them. As for DVD quality, there were some neon green vertical lines and splotches on the film. The double feature DVD comes with a load of special features: Teen Trash Trailers, Classroom Scare Short #1: The Innocent Party, Scare Short #2: VD!, a Gallery of Roadshow Pitch Books with "Facts of Life" intermission lecture, and a Gallery of Exploitation Art with radio interview from Slightly Damaged sex hygienist EJ. Schaefer--displacedhuman

Exploitation films designed to scare teeangers out of having sex.......2005-11-09

Let me begin with this specific warning: One of the things that "Damaged Goods" and "The Hard Road" have in common is that during the course of the narratives the young people in the movies and the viewing audience are exposed to what were called sex hygiene films. The point of these "educational" films was to scare kids straight and that means showing pictures of genitalia infected with venereal disease. So if you think that this Something Weird DVD has brought together a couple of choice examples from the sexploitation genre of the early 1960s, you are going to be in for a rude awakening, which, of course, was the whole point of these films.

The trailer for "Damaged Goods" makes it seem that the title character of this 1961 film is Kathy Durham (Dolores Faith), the bad brunette high school girl who wants to take Jim Radman (Mory Schoolhouse) away from perky blonde Judy Jackson (Charlotte Stewart). But Jim is really the central character here and the title fits him as well as anybody, even if the presumption is the only young girls deserve the appellation. Jim and Judy have been dating for a while and are planning on getting married before going off to college. But then Jim goes off to Seaview with Monk (Michael Bell) and the rest of the boys and ends up "letting off some steam" with a prostitute. Judy finds out and breaks up with Jim, who then takes up with Kathy. Then he decides that he should go see his doctor about that sore that will not heal and it is time for that graphic educational film. At least director H. Haile Chace is able to carve out a happy ending (penicillin is real wonder drug), but just imagine going on a date in high school within a weak of watching this one.

"The Hard Road" for teenage Pamela Banner (Connie Nelson) begins with a pregnancy. After giving birth and putting the baby up for adoption, Pam low self-esteem drives her to sleep around. After contracting gonorrhea and being slapped by her mom (Liz Renay), Pam moves in with her friend Gina and Jimmy (John Alderman) the heroin addict, who gets Pam hooked too. This is where the educational film gets run with even more graphic shots of venereal disease run wild before we get back to the story, which for the last part of the film is watching Jimmy and Pam crash and burn, to varying degrees, because of their drug addiction. Whereas "Damaged Goods" focuses just on the wages of sin in regards to sex, this 1970 film directed by Greg Corarito and Gary Graver shifts from sex to drugs at the end, as if there were almost two different films spliced together (with a sex hygiene film bridging the two).

The DVD extras stick pretty much to the educational theme with a couple of shorts, "The Innocent Party" and "VD!", the latter of which has a lot of the same things as "Damaged Goods" (which was originally released as "V.D."). Then there is a Gallery of Roadshow Pitch Books with the "Facts of Life" Intermission Lecture that SW fans will have heard before and a Gallery of Roadshow Exploitation Art with Radio Interview with "Slightly Damaged"/"Mondo" Traveling Roadshow Sex Hygienist Mr. E. J. Shaefer, which reaffirms that this is these films are all about educating the kids. It is only when you get to the trailers that you get away from this mantra. "The Hard Road" and "Damaged Goods" obviously fit, but with "Slightly Damaged," "Teenage Mother," "Teenage Sex Report," "The Runaway," and "Teenage Tramp" we are clearly veering back towards sexploitation (simple rule of thumb: if the actors are the ones naked you can forget about this being educational).

Actually rating these movies is an interesting proposition, because how many stars should you give to a film that threatens to make you physical ill, but in a good cause? "Damaged Goods" is the better of the two films, mainly because the actors actually get to do some acting and because the doctor does make a good case for why telling the truth about V.D. is important (it takes Jim a while to see the light, by which point every teenager in the audience should be way ahead of him on what would be the right thing to do). The value here is not as cinema, but rather as examples of one of the ways society was responding to, if not fighting back again, the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s. I just wonder what I would have been like if I had seen one of these films as a teenager (all I remember seeing where the Ohio State Highway Patrol films where you hear the screams of people being taken out of wrecked cars).

Save Your Life! Watch These Films!!.......2003-10-13

I give Damaged Goods 3 stars, merely for its value as a historical curiosity. It has a very silly soap opera plot, and is very weak as a warning film. A girl gets jealous of her boyfriend because his best friend's girlfriend wants to steal him from her. So she dumps him, allowing the hussy to make passes at him. However, they make up. So his friend gets him drunk, he gets VD, she dumps him again, he takes up with his friend's girlfriend, he makes up with his old girlfriend and dumps his new squeeze, the end. Not what you would expect from Sid Davis, the master of paranoid, alarmist warning films for kids (surprisingly, no little children get killed by nameless strangers, a problem that occurs in pretty well every other Sid Davis film).

Product Description

Damaged Goods is an honest, multicultural piece on living with AIDS in North America. The film and it's participants explores this concept of being Damaged - the idea of not being "whole," "less than" - feelings of which we all sometimes experience. Also featured are respected medical authorities, prominent activists in the fight against the disease, and first time testers who bravely take an HIV test on camera and get their results. This piece is raw, edgy, brutally honest and at times funny as hell. "Damaged Goods" shows the beauty and resilience of the human spirit.

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