VHS Exit Wounds
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Warner Bros released "Exit Wounds" on VHS in 2001, putting Steven Seagal and DMX on the same case at the exact moment both had cultural gravity to burn. Seagal was deep into his direct-to-video slide but still carrying theatrical weight here. DMX had two number-one albums in 1998 alone and was moving from rap into film without losing a step. This is the retail VHS pressing, standard clamshell format, carrying the Warner Bros home video imprint from the tail end of the format's commercial run.
By 2001, VHS was already losing shelf space to DVD at a pace the studios couldn't ignore, but the format still moved units on recognizable titles. "Exit Wounds" was one of those titles. The film pulled over $18 million in its opening weekend on a modest budget and ended up grossing north of $80 million worldwide, which made it a legitimate box office story for a Seagal vehicle at that point in his career. Detroit cop action with a hip-hop soundtrack was a formula that still sold in 2001, and DMX's presence gave the marketing team two separate audiences to chase. Warner Bros pressed these with that dual-star art front and center, Seagal and DMX in the blue-toned treatment that was standard for gritty urban action packaging in the early 2000s. Some pressings of this title included a bonus DMX music video, which pushed the runtime over the standard feature cut.
Summer 2001, three months after theaters, the format already on borrowed time.
This copy carries the original clamshell with the cardboard sleeve insert intact. The tape itself is the thing to check on any VHS from this period: the ribbon should sit without slack when you hold the cassette level, and the tape housing should show clean, oxide-brown stock with no visible warping or creasing along the edge. Play condition on early-2000s Warner Bros VHS tends to be solid when storage was climate-controlled, and the clamshell format protected more copies than the soft-case alternatives from the same years. Worth pulling the cassette from the shell and inspecting the tape window before you commit.
OWNER VERIFY: Confirm whether this pressing includes the DMX bonus music video on the tape or is the standard feature-only configuration.
Summer 2001, three months after theaters, the format already on borrowed time.
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