Single White Female VHS
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"Single White Female" on VHS, Columbia Pictures, 1992. Barbet Schroeder directed this psychological thriller starring Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh, and the cover design did exactly what the film does: split the identity right down the center. Two women, one classified ad layout, the typography styled like a torn newsprint personal ad. The rental sticker on this copy marks it as former shelf stock, which puts it in the right lineage for a tape that spent its early life being rewound in video stores up and down the country.
1992 was a loaded year for the studio thriller. "Basic Instinct" had already hit that spring and redrawn what the genre could do at the box office. Columbia was pressing hard on the psychological end of the market, and "Single White Female" arrived in August as the follow-up punch. Fonda was fresh off the "The Silence of the Lambs" press cycle, Leigh was coming off "Backdraft" and climbing fast, and Schroeder had made "Reversal of Fortune" just two years prior. The film pulled over 48 million domestic on a modest budget, which for a late-summer adult thriller in 1992 was a genuine result. The cover art became one of the most referenced VHS sleeve designs of the period: that bisected portrait, each half reflecting the other, almost a Rorschach test before you pressed play. That image circulated through video store windows for most of the decade. As a home video object it carries the full weight of that moment, the kind of sleeve that made rental browsers stop and read the back panel before they committed.
The nineties erotic thriller run was short, specific, and this one stayed claustrophobic.
This copy is in rental-era condition, with the previously viewed sticker still on the shell. The clamshell shows shelf and rewind wear consistent with a working tape from an active store stock. The spine text reads cleanly, and the label color on the cassette itself holds without significant bleaching. The tape door hinge on the cartridge is the place to look first: check it for stress cracks before you display this or run it through a deck.
OWNER VERIFY: Confirm the Columbia Pictures catalog number on the spine matches the original 1992 theatrical release pressing, not a later reissue.
The nineties erotic thriller run was short, specific, and this one stayed claustrophobic.
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This single white female vhs originates from the 90s era[01], represents Columbia Pictures[02]'s output, . Each piece in the shop is a single unit, inspected by hand in Las Vegas before listing. The data manifest to the right records the fields on file for this lot; where a field is empty it has been omitted rather than guessed.
INSPECTED IN STORE / 707 E FREMONT, LAS VEGAS
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- 90s
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