Slasherverse - Timeline

[stphylcccs]

@Pro Bot how would you feel about getting timestamps from streaming services, or would you rather be able to break it into chapters

 

[Pro Bot]

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/CreepshowS3E12ADeadGirlNamedSue
Okay, so Creepshow has an episode set in the Night of the Living Dead universe.

 

[user 16960]

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/CreepshowS3E12ADeadGirlNamedSue
Okay, so Creepshow has an episode set in the Night of the Living Dead universe.

Weird.... They referenced Return of the Living Dead through a trioxin canister in a different episode, and those films had Night just be a movie in-universe based on real events

 

[user 16960]

Actually. In Hack/Slash my first maniac when they show a bunch of news reports that have the spawn and cujo cameos there's one for Zombies and if you look closely enough it quotes the "when hell is full" speech from Dawn so uh.... I don't know

 

[BMarrow]

Actually. In Hack/Slash my first maniac when they show a bunch of news reports that have the spawn and cujo cameos there's one for Zombies and if you look closely enough it quotes the "when hell is full" speech from Dawn so uh.... I don't know

Never noticed that. It makes reference to a few zombie movies

 

[iceman109]

Never noticed that. It makes reference to a few zombie movies

Which ones?

 

[BMarrow]

Which ones?

It mentions two Zombie incidents in England, Shaun of the Dead, 28 Days Later.

Several in Italy, The Zombi franchise

 

[Pro Bot]

There is an interview I read that suggested that each week, they had to craft a new "universe."

Greg Nicotero: Well, we got the green light to do Creepshow while I was shooting The Walking Dead, so we had to develop the stories, get the scripts written, prep in six weeks, so the entirety of season one was done between January and April. It was fast and furious. I've been in The Walking Dead world for ten years, so I was like, 'How hard can it be? You build a bunch of sets, get some cameras, you get a bunch of great actors and a good script, and you shoot it.' Man, I had no idea what I was letting myself in for. You're creating an entirely new universe, all new sets, all new cast and crew every three and a half days.

He could be talking metaphorically, I suppose. Even still, the Night of the Living Dead episode suggests it.

 

[Pro Bot]

I know that a few episodes have easter eggs to one another, too.

 

[iceman109]

It mentions two Zombie incidents in England, Shaun of the Dead, 28 Days Later.

Several in Italy, The Zombi franchise

Were they implied to be as apocalyptic as their movie counterparts?

 

[BMarrow]

Were they implied to be as apocalyptic as their movie counterparts?

It only mentions zombie sightings and not full on attacks.

 

[iceman109]

There is an interview I read that suggested that each week, they had to craft a new "universe."

He could be talking metaphorically, I suppose. Even still, the Night of the Living Dead episode suggests it.

A timeline for the Living Dead series would be weird considering how that episode puts it firmly in 1968 yet the main movie series updates the year of the apocalypse every time a new movie comes out

 

[Pro Bot]

A timeline for the Living Dead series would be weird considering how that episode puts it firmly in 1968 yet the main movie series updates the year of the apocalypse every time a new movie comes out

You could easily just use 1968 and place the sequels in the past with the assumption it's an advanced past. In fact, the prequel comic very definitively uses the first movie's setting and references historical moments.

 

[Pro Bot]

There is an interview I read that suggested that each week, they had to craft a new "universe."

He could be talking metaphorically, I suppose. Even still, the Night of the Living Dead episode suggests it.

Also, I suppose you could argue Public Television of the Dead is Evil Dead canon based on that? I don't know. That episode would fit pretty well in 1979 since there's Michael Myers' mask and Freddy Krueger's glove. A few references to other episodes and movies, too. I know Indiana Jones and Silence of the Lambs get referenced, but based on the context, it's probably not an intentional universe thing. Nightmare and Halloween just happen to share connections already.

 

[Pro Bot]

It referenced Clash of the Titans too with the robot owl. I do kinda want Clash of the Titans to be part of a shared universe but not really the Slasherverse unless they tie it directly to Xena like they did with Sparticus (yes there's a Xena episode where they reference the Sparticus movie and even show footage from it as a flashback)

Yeah, I love that weird Xena connection to Sparticus.

 

[Pro Bot]

I really wish that I could buy that Drag Me to Hell was connected to Evil Dead based on Fede Álverez's tweet (Xeet?), but I know it's just because there's a photograph of Jessica Lucas in Drag Me to Hell and she plays Olivia in Evil Dead.

Like, seriously Fede? You're, what, randomly implying that her Evil Dead character is retroactively (because it wasn't intended) a reprisal of a photograph in the background of a scene? I want Drag Me to Hell to connect, it fits so well with the Deadite scene in that as well as the Shaman scenes in Ash vs Evil Dead, but I want something a bit more explicit. He didn't even confirm that that's the connection, it's just the only one that makes sense.

If we're gonna suddenly have a director add a small connection in their Evil Dead-esque Mummy film... come on, Drag Me to Hell is right there! Anyway, you get my point.

 

[iceman109]

You could easily just use 1968 and place the sequels in the past with the assumption it's an advanced past. In fact, the prequel comic very definitively uses the first movie's setting and references historical moments.

If it's an advanced past it makes me wonder if world history was the same or different (probably reading too much into it though)

 

[user 16960]

I really wish that I could buy that Drag Me to Hell was connected to Evil Dead based on Fede Álverez's tweet (Xeet?), but I know it's just because there's a photograph of Jessica Lucas in Drag Me to Hell and she plays Olivia in Evil Dead.

Like, seriously Fede? You're, what, randomly implying that her Evil Dead character is retroactively (because it wasn't intended) a reprisal of a photograph in the background of a scene? I want Drag Me to Hell to connect, it fits so well with the Deadite scene in that as well as the Shaman scenes in Ash vs Evil Dead, but I want something a bit more explicit. He didn't even confirm that that's the connection, it's just the only one that makes sense.

If we're gonna suddenly have a director add a small connection in their Evil Dead-esque Mummy film... come on, Drag Me to Hell is right there! Anyway, you get my point.

I thought the shot was a reference in Evil Dead 2013? Not in DMTH

 

[user 16960]

Either way uh, I'd count it because it's intentional shared universe on Fedes part even if it's a lazy connection like that

 

[Pro Bot]

I thought the shot was a reference in Evil Dead 2013? Not in DMTH

Nah, he said it was something in Drag Me to Hell that makes you realise it's the same universe as his Evil Dead.

 

[Pro Bot]

See?

 

[user 16960]

Nah, he said it was something in Drag Me to Hell that makes you realise it's the same universe as his Evil Dead.

Ah okay, still he's saying it's a shared universe so
*Shrugs*
It's a shared universe even if it's not strong. Word of god alone would prove that I'd say

 

[Pro Bot]

Thing is, he didn't even confirm the connection. He just confirmed what WASN'T a connection and referenced that someone had already pointed out what was.

He never got to state the associated story in the end.

 

[user 16960]

Thing is, he didn't even confirm the connection. He just confirmed what WASN'T a connection and referenced that someone had already pointed out what was.

He never got to state the associated story in the end.

Sure but like... We still know the movies are connected to the same universe somehow. Technically the connection doesn't matter because we know the movies are connected anyway. It would be nice to know what specifically but still... We know it's a shared universe already

 

[user 16960]

Die!Namite Lives! #1
2020 - Die!Namite Lives! #2
2020 - Die!Namite Lives! #3
2020 - Die!Namite Lives! #4
2020 - Die!Namite Lives! #5
2020 - Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2021 - Adam Green's Hatchet: Unstoppable Horror
2021 - The Army of Darkness: 1979 #1
2021 - The Army of Darkness: 1979 #2
2021 - The Army of Darkness: 1979 #3
2021 - The Army of Darkness: 1979 #4
2021 - The Army of Darkness: 1979 #5

Once again asking to have DieNamite and AOD 1979 to be stricken from the timeline. They're meant to be an alternate dynamite continuity ala Marvel Zombies or DCeased. They're definitely not Slasherverse canon, Ash, Vampirella and Red Sonja have never even met each other before in the DieNamite continuity

 

[Megatron]

See?

To be Fair he sounded more sarcastico Like "yeah? Try to find this then, Good luck".

I wouldn't take It to be serious.

 

[Megatron]

Once again asking to have DieNamite and AOD 1979 to be stricken from the timeline. They're meant to be an alternate dynamite continuity ala Marvel Zombies or DCeased. They're definitely not Slasherverse canon, Ash, Vampirella and Red Sonja have never even met each other before in the DieNamite continuity

Being a crossover doesn't mean being non-canon.

 

[user 16960]

Being a crossover doesn't mean being non-canon.

That's not what I said... I said in the crossover those characters have never met before. But in Slasherverse canon they have, in the Prophecy event. In DieNamite they act like they've never met before... Also DieNamite is literally an alternate continuity for Dynamite, it's very obvious when you read it they zombify and kill off several characters from several Dynamite titles and have a zombie apocalypse, it's their version of Marvel Zombies essentially

 

[user 16960]

To be Fair he sounded more sarcastico Like "yeah? Try to find this then, Good luck".

I wouldn't take It to be serious.

No I don't think he's being THAT sarcastic. Fede has always been about connecting canon, like with the TCM thing. I don't think he'd send a fan on a random wild goose chase like that for no reason

 

[Pro Bot]

Once again asking to have DieNamite and AOD 1979 to be stricken from the timeline. They're meant to be an alternate dynamite continuity ala Marvel Zombies or DCeased. They're definitely not Slasherverse canon, Ash, Vampirella and Red Sonja have never even met each other before in the DieNamite continuity

Evil Dead explicitly deals with alternate timelines. I'd just see it like that. Not main timeline, but alternate timeline sure.