Cletaraxia

HYPERSONIC Music Club

August 2023 •Japanese

In 2017, a short anime film called Hypersonic Music Club was produced in Japan. It was directed and written by Osamu Kobayashi, a veteran of the industry who passed away in April 2021. For various reasons, this short anime was never released. It was made public on August 1, 2023.

All American Massacre

January 1998 •English

Unreleased Texas Chainsaw Massacre spin-off revolving around the character Chop-Top. The film acts as both a prequel and a sequel to the first and second films. Shelved because of a copyright dispute regarding who owns the rights to the series.

A Frontier Scene

June 1895 •English

A western short depicting the execution of a horse thief by a group of enraged cowboys. This film is considered to be lost.

Kansas City Blender Massacre

July 1986 •English

Lost Todd Sheets short about a killer using a blender.

The Square Root

January 1969 •English

Photographer Peter Christiansen, University of Miami student, does a picture story at an LSD party on the beach.

Фарс с Зимовым — «Русским Поксоном»

October 1915 •Russian

15 Thousand Drawings

December 1942 •Spanish

Heartbeat in the Brain

January 1970 •English

Heartbeat in the Brain is a 1970 documentary film produced and directed by Amanda Feilding, an advocate of trepanation. In the film, Feilding, a 27-year-old student at the time, drills a hole in her forehead with a dentist's drill. In the documentary, surgical scenes alternate with motion studies of Feilding's pet pigeon Birdie.

Something in the Basement

January 1986 •English

A youth waits for his brother to return home from a bloody war. He encounters something very nasty and evil in the basement of his house, claiming his older brother has in fact died.

The Fox With Nine Tails

October 1968 •Japanese

Tobimaru is the young emperor of Japan. He meets a mysterious woman named Tomamo. After successfully seducing Tobimaru, she brings great misfortune onto the land. Tobimaru soon discovers that Tomamo is actually a kitsune, and now has the task to unmask and kill her to save his land. (currently a lost media)

Cruel Summer

May 2012 •English

A car thief (Kid Cudi) falls in love with a blind Arabian princess whose father allows them to marry under the terms he can help her see.

Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

April 2019 •English

Marion Stokes secretly recorded television 24 hours a day for 30 years from 1975 until her death in 2012. For Marion taping was a form of activism to seek the truth, and she believed that a comprehensive archive of the media would be invaluable for future generations. Her visionary and maddening project nearly tore her family apart, but now her 70,000 VHS tapes are being digitized and they'll be searchable online.

Episódios Perdidos: Uma História

Invalid date •Portuguese

El Chavo, El Chapulin Colorado, Chespirito: The biggest phenomenon of Latin American comedy in 50 years. Behind the success, there is a mystery that has never been solved: the lost episodes.

The Hanging of William Carr

December 1897 •English

The hanging of child murderer, William Carr

The Darkest Lost Media (Vol. 3)

February 2025 •English

Throughout the years, various fragments of media have been lost to time. Tonight, I aim to dive into five more of the darkest ones out there, to bring their stories back to light.

What Happened to Crow 64?

October 2020 •English

A documentary about a long lost N64 game.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood

February 2007 •Japanese

An adaptation of the original five volume arc of the popular JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga, covering the Phantom Blood chapters. Jonathan Joestar is an aristocratic boy whose life is suddenly turned upside down by a mysterious new boy who arrives, Dio Brando. Dio has a connection to his father, and over time, a rivalry forms as Dio becomes obsessed with a mysterious, ancient, and mystical stone mask that Jonathan's father keeps. This film has not been publicly released outside of its original limited run in Japanese theaters and is considered virtually lost.

Gehenna

April 2025 •Portuguese

In this recently found and restored banned underground classic from 1984, four girls go into a bathroom to hide in the middle of a war and, after an impulsive act by one of them, they find themselves trapped there. As panic gives way to despair, tragedy approaches.

The Bannfoot Ferry

June 2024 •English

A forgotten history of Northern Ireland is unveiled through a journey into Ulster Television’s archives, and the rediscovery of the first locally-produced network drama, Boatman Do Not Tarry.