Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Wordiezett So much average

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Paul Andrews Traces of Death lasts for seventy eight minutes & is a collection of extreme footage edited together with a few brief & largely uninformative snippets of narration provided by writer & director Damon Fox.Anyone familiar with these shockumentary style films will be feel right at home, having just watched Traces of Death I would say that it's 99% real footage of accidents, autopsies, suicides, crime scenes, morgues, gory medical operations & animal slaughter with the one notable exception being the scene at the end in which a man is supposedly killed by several Lions which is definitely fake & is actually ripped from another shockumentary from the 70's & even has Japanese subtitles like the only tape the makers could find was a Japanese one.Some of this is very grim & very hard to watch, from Pigs being blow torched while still alive to autopsies in which intestines, spines & brains are graphically removed (I assume this is medical school footage filmed for teaching purposes, I simply don't know why else an autopsy would be filmed in so much detail (edit: a little research proves my initial thoughts to be correct & the footage is actually taken from something called Basic Autopsy Procedure (1961) made by the U.S. army)) to various medical operations that will make most wince just looking at them including an Asian sex change change in which a guy has his cock surgically removed & a nice new glory hole created. I feel queasy just thinking about it but I am almost positive I have seen this exact same footage before in Shocking Asia (1976).There's the well known suicide of Pennsylvanian treasurer Budd Dwyer who blew his brains out during a live press conference, the close-up of Dwyer's face with blood pouring from his nose & mouth is yet another dubious highlight. Various crime scene photo's, sporting accidents & various other forms of human suffering, mutilation, death & pain are also included for our viewing pleasure.The majority of this footage has no narration, Traces of Death is just scene after scene of human misery & suffering not put into any sort of context. Budd Dwyer's name is never mentioned during his suicide, medical operations are shown but quite what is going on is a mystery as are the outcomes & why the Pigs are being blow torched alive remains unanswered (although I assume it was some sort of horrible experiment).The IMDb says this had a budget of about $18 which sounds about right, most of the footage is probably edited from other sources & randomly pieced together with no great thought behind it. Banned here in the U.K. the BBFC stated that it did not have any 'journalistic, educational or other justifying context for the images shown' which is just about spot on.Traces of Death is brilliant if you like this sort of thing with it's graphic footage of murder, misery, death, suffering & pain but I doubt there that many people out there who will truly enjoy all seventy eight minutes of this. Followed by Traces of Death II (1994), Traces of Death III (1995), Traces of Death IV: Resurrected (1996) & Traces of Death V: Back in Action (2000).

peter_bark_fan I do think that it is extremely important people know exactly what they are about to see. People who watch this, are not watching it because they are disturbed human beings.Well, at least I am not. It is just like when you see an accident on the road. You may try to hide it, but most people want to see the dead body. Thats what this is. Yes, some scenes may be disturbing, but some people watch this stuff, and afterwords they feel like they have conquered their fear of death. All the things in this movie are real life, and I think its healthy to see it, rather than pretend this stuff doesn't happen. I recommend this to people who are fascinated with extreme human behavior, and extreme situations.

Zbigniew_Krycsiwiki Without a doubt one of the most atrocious movies (made for $18?) you're ever going to find, "Death" or otherwise. The great majority of the movie is still-photographs of murders, suicides, electrocutions, car crashes, and it's mostly SILENT FOOTAGE, so that little bonehead Damon Fox added in some horrendous, canned background music, and his own idiotic narration to fill that particular void. Damon has the personality of a toilet plunger, so why would we need to hear what he has to say? Why did Damon not address the allegations of his pedophilic convictions, alcoholism, and various other sundry affairs in his bone- gratingly bad narrative, or in his lengthy, and wholly fraudulent, bio?By the way, to Damon Fox, clever title that you came up with for this. What did it take you, maybe all of about four seconds to think of that title? "Faces of Death" and "Traces of Death" may have similar titles, but they're nothing at all like each other. Faces of Death was a brilliantly marketed movie. Its tag "Banned in XX countries" made people believe that it really had been banned in many countries all over the world, which only made many people want to see this to see what the big deal was. It was largely fake, but was coherently put together, and told its mock story well enough to make it involving.. Faces of Death at least had a sleazy, trashy documentary feel to it, some attempt at a sequence or progression from one scene to the next.None of that here though.This is just one still-photograph of brains splattered on the wall after another, another silent video of someone crushed in a compactor after that, all edited together without any progression from one scene to the next, with that annoying hairball Damon providing a thoroughly obnoxious and grating narrative. His fraudulent bio on IMDb is pitiful, claiming to be a big time film producer, musician, alleging that he graduated high school when he was 12 years old, etc. Why did IMDb bother to add such nonsense? What a pathetic fraud Damon he is, and what a pathetic video this was. We can only hope that his death comes soon. Few times has a movie made me as angry as this, or has a worthless waste of life like Damon made me as angry as this has. Rot in Hell, Damon.Damon, and every copy of this, should be burnt, and the ashes sent into deep space, to never be seen again.

nineinch I have always thought that death films are like Faces Of Death...and I always think Faces Of Death is bad due to the fact it is 85% fake. But TRACES OF DEATH is 100% real and if you are at least squeamish or easily offended by actual scenes of human death, do not watch this film! But if you are like me, a pure reality death enthusiast, this film is for you! You will see actual suicides, actual autopsy, a sex change in very graphic detail, actual animal footage and much, much, more. So if you like death movies..this is the one to get!