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Traces of Death (1993)

Unrated | | Documentary, Horror | Video
This successor to "Faces of Death" collection is a collection of archive film and borrowed stock footage. In its opening you see the death of a woman named Maritza Martin, who was gunned ... See full summary »

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Herself - Woman Murdered by Ex-husband on Spanish TV Show 'Ocurrio Asi' (archive footage)
Emilio Nunez ...
Himself - Man Who Murdered Ex-wife on Spanish TV Show 'Ocurrio Asi' (archive footage)
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This successor to "Faces of Death" collection is a collection of archive film and borrowed stock footage. In its opening you see the death of a woman named Maritza Martin, who was gunned down by her ex-husband on Spanish language television. We then witness British SAS troopers storming the Iranian Embassy in 1980, this is followed by a police chase of a criminal in a pick up truck and the deadly finale. It then goes to footage of animal experiments with a grizzly scene of a live pig being burned alive with a torch. Autopsy footage is then shown of an Asian individual. We are then shown a very graphic presentation on a male to female sex change operation. One interesting scene has a man who had his nasal cavity removed and replaced with a prosthetic, the footage is most interesting and worth the price of admission. The producers then suddenly return to the death theme with the well known footage of R Budd Dwyer and his on air suicide with a .357 Magnum, followed by a look at one of ... Written by Sujit R. Varma

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Cry of 183 People, Dead Want to Live  »

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Heavilly edited in Japan, and re-released under the title, "Cry of 183 People, Dead Want to Live". Many death scenes were edited out completely, but there are several new scenes added, dealing with child molesters, the video claims, "inspired by Damon Fox" See more »

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a gross out.
8 August 2002 | by (Norfolk, England) – See all my reviews

This is a bit of a hard one to review really. It's not a film as such and it's not really a documentary. It simply tries to gross out the viewer with scenes of real death, accidents, autopsies, operations and pictures. I had wanted to see this film for sometime after hearing it is the most extreme of all the mondo films. It didn't really shock me at all although I think this has more to do with my hard stomach than the film not being shocking. I found the film very interesting at times. Mainly the car accidents. But I really don't agree with the way the makers of this are making money from others misery. I have also read many reviews with people say they find Traces of Death funny. That I really don't like to hear. There is nothing funny about people being killed and seriously hurt. The film is very poorly edited together and terribly narrated. Overall I would say that although at times interesting it's just a gross out so if that appeals to you then watch it, if it doesn't then don't.

5/10


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