Plot

Traces of Death is a collection of archive film and borrowed stock footage, notorious for its pointless exploitative content. 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 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 the most notorious Nazi villains, Ilsa Koch and her sick collection of concentration camp victim tattoos which she turned into book covers, lampshades and wallets. The closing has some stock footage of a funeral and an animal attack.—Sujit R. Varma

The scenes in Traces of Death are as follows.

The film opens with a disclaimer saying that the producers considered putting a tone before and after each gruesome scene warning the audience, however due to the entire film being gruesome the idea was dropped, his is followed by an Extreme Warning warning the audience that they are about to view scenes very graphic and disturbing.

We get an intro by the Narrator (Damon Fox), which again warns the audience.

The footage is a follows:

Graphic crime scene photos.

The Murder of Maritza Martin

Caught on video crime scenes, and deaths.

Paramedic footage.

A pig being experimented on by being burned alive.

More crime scene photos.

A bear being electrocuted.

A Pit Bull attack.

Autopsy footage, spinal cord removal, and brain removal.

Car accidents.

Stunts.

Daredevil Wrecks

Monster Truck Accident.

Breast Reduction Surgery.

Male to Female Sex Change Operation.

Rodeo Accidents.

Riots.

Suicide footage.

R. Budd Dwyer Suicide.

Baby Brain Surgery.

Mortician Footage.

Morgue Photos.

The Lion Attack of Pit Durnitz.

The film ends with an advertisement to send in $5 to receive a 125-page catalogue, to buy a T-shirts, buttons, and real human bones and skulls.