Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

Holstra Boring, long, and too preachy.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

SacrifyX I really enjoyed this compilation when I was a kid, I used to watch it a lot back in the day.I always wondered where the director was (Damon Fox), he goes by the alias 'Damien Black' too, although his real, full name is William Robert Rocz Jr.. For those who don't know, his father was Bill Rocz, the local Tempe, AZ film critic. You can see him for a few seconds in Raising Arizona. I first bought a VHS copy of Traces at a video rental store when I was about 12. I also bought The Amazing Shocking Asia the same day. Traces was much better. Later on I discovered Damon's magazine, 'Foxx Entertainment Enterprises Ltd.', and I wanted so much stuff in the magazine, but by the time I discovered it, everything was long gone. Nobody has heard from Damon for years. I would love to know where he is today, he made some INCREDIBLE designs back in the day. And I'm also a fan of the Stormtrooper album 'Armies Of The Night' he made under the name 'Damien Black'. This review is not so much about the film itself, everyone else has already mentioned so much about it, anything I have to say would be useless.This is just about the mystery of Damon Fox. Where is he today? And no, the Damon Fox that narrated Death Scenes and sang in the band Stormtrooper is not the same Damon Fox that is on Facebook right now. That guy is in the band 'The Cult' and he never responds to any questions whatsoever. A simple 'Not the same guy' would have been nice, but I suppose if you're not Kat Von D or some other semi-famous person, he doesn't have time for replies.Anyway, if anyone knows where Damon Fox (Aka Bill Rocz Jr.) is today, please let me know. I would love to talk to him about Foxx Entertainment Enterprises. They had highly superior items, not the cheap low quality crap that gets mass produced today.

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).

jeffketvirtis666 if i could id give this a 666 out of ten, anyhow....if you don't like this then you are normal. i am not and think this is a great (horrific) depiction of what could happen to us. I've seen up to IV and all are morbid master pieces...the other ones include glorious death metal/grind gore which i also enjoy. we shall all die and some of us shall die very, very, gruesome violent chaotic moronic disgusting deaths. a lot of us humans will also come into contact with hospitals via terrifying sadistic injuries. those stupid shows on true TV and stuff like that that claims its "worlds wildest videos" does not have anything on the wildness and bizarre images contained in this video. its not a movie and its not a documentary its just pure unadulterated death and human destruction. and if you are at all up set by things that happen in real life then stay away in your peaceful, ignorant world and leave the death to us. only black is true, only death is real!

jklein8787 Forget Faces of Death, this tape is all real. Very hardcore and graphic. Images of Vic Morrow's death, suicides, car accidents, abortions, nose jobs, firing squads, and finally R. Budd Dwyer pulling a nice gun. R Budd Dwyer was a senator or a congressman who blew his brains out on national. That is really one of the most disturbing images I have ever seen. And we get to see it non stop in various camera angles. The metal music is great but the narration is almost laughable and too over the top. Still, if you are looking to be grossed out or just seeing what can shock you, rent this tape.