Slasherverse - Timeline

[BMarrow]

I thought it was released to the public at some point after it was cancelled?

It was supposed to come out on Halloween of 2000 but never did

 

[stphylcccs]

Apparently there's a documentary about the movie in an attempt to find it, I'll watch that some time in the foreseeable future, see if it has anything on the actual plot of the movie

 

[Pro Bot]

This image had been brought up before in regards to Cujo and Spawn before. But it also features Edward from Twilight so uhhhhh I guess that series counts now? Also if you look closely at the text in the zombies picture you can see the famous quote from Romero's Dawn of the Dead. Obviously dawn shouldn't count because the Dead series leads to an apocalypse but still interesting to mention


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"Unless they sparkle in daylight and if they do they are a harmless breed of the species"

 

[Publius]

It's just the Wikipedia page even said The Amityville Horror II: The Possession was a prequel.

The film never identifies itself as a prequel; as far as I can determine, that is simply an "everybody knows" claim. Sonny Montelli has a poster for Rocky (1976) and prominently uses a Walkman (1979), and several of the cars in the film are late 1970s or early 1980s models. The Montelli murders are set no earlier than 1982, close to a decade after the DeFeo murders.

 

[Pro Bot]

After examining the voices, I'm fairly certain that the voice on the tape from Lee Cronin's The Mummy is Father Marcus from Evil Dead Rise. Both the Vinyl and the tape are set in 1923 and the voices sound so damn similar to one another.
https://evildead.fandom.com/wiki/Marcus_Littleton

That 100% confirms Lee Cronin's The Mummy is an extension of the Evil Dead universe... and before anyone says it's just his head-canon, Lee Cronin is an executive producer on Evil Dead Burn and Evil Dead Wrath. He has DEFINITELY spoke to Sam about it, no way he hasn't.

 

[Pro Bot]

Getting three Evil Dead movies within two years was definitely not expected after having one film a decade.

 

[Publius]

After examining the voices, I'm fairly certain that the voice on the tape from Lee Cronin's The Mummy is Father Marcus from Evil Dead Rise. Both the Vinyl and the tape are set in 1923 and the voices sound so damn similar to one another.
https://evildead.fandom.com/wiki/Marcus_Littleton

That 100% confirms Lee Cronin's The Mummy is an extension of the Evil Dead universe... and before anyone says it's just his head-canon, Lee Cronin is an executive producer on Evil Dead Burn and Evil Dead Wrath. He has DEFINITELY spoke to Sam about it, no way he hasn't.

I second your conclusion. This is a positive connection.

 

[Pro Bot]

It's funny if true, because Mark Mitchinson also played Professor Bixler, a relative of Beth. He plays the role of two different Evil Dead connections.

 

[Pro Bot]

I know people are hating on the new film, but it feels like it's because it's called The Mummy and not Evil Dead. People think of Stephen Summers' franchise and want action/adventure. It's not fair, really.

Call it Evil Dead: The Mummy and suddenly everyone will praise it.

 

[user 16960]

I know people are hating on the new film, but it feels like it's because it's called The Mummy and not Evil Dead. People think of Stephen Summers' franchise and want action/adventure. It's not fair, really.

I remember several years ago I saw a comment somewhere about the Tom Cruise version saying "no mummy should be made without Brendon Frasier" and that kinda peeved me because it's also insulting the Mummy movies from before that trilogy was even made. Like you're going to disrespect the Boris Karloff original???

 

[Pro Bot]

I remember several years ago I saw a comment somewhere about the Tom Cruise version saying "no mummy should be made without Brendon Frasier" and that kinda peeved me because it's also insulting the Mummy movies from before that trilogy was even made. Like you're going to disrespect the Boris Karloff original???

Karloff is a better actor in my opinion. Dude had insane talent.

 

[Publius]

Isn't his first zombie appearance in The Last Chapter, not Jason Lives? He's straight up confirmed dead, I don't see how professionals could mess that up, or how Jason (even in his more-than-human state) could fake being dead well enough to fool professionals, or why he would do that in the first place

No, Jason Voorhees has been some species of revenant since his death on June 13, 1957. Simon Hawk, Friday the 13th Part II: A Novel (Signet Books, 1988), explicitly confirms that he drowned in Crystal Lake and was revived. As the novelization is not widely available, I'll post a lengthy passage discussing this. Note that Hawke consistently spells the name Voorhees as "Vorhees" in all three of his novelizations; I assume this reflects a family preference that was never formally reflected in government records. In the following passage, I've marked page numbers in square brackets:

[63] He stood hidden in the trees and watched them pass by, oblivious to his presence. Deep within his simple, twisted mind, a cold fire began to burn as he watched them disappear [64] from sight. He knew who these people were. They were just like the others—the ones who had hurt him so long ago—the same ones who had hurt his mother.

Jason Vorhees was insane. The violent things he'd seen and the savage life he'd lived out in the woods had their irreversible effects upon his feeble mind, but those things had only completed what nature had started. He had never been completely normal. Strange forces had been at work in his life from the very moment of his conception.

From his premature birth, at the stroke of midnight one Friday the 13th, there had been something different about him. It was not only that he had been an unusually large infant, with striking, pronounced features that gave him an almost adult expression, but there was something ominous about him that filled all those who came near him with a profound sense of unease—all except his mother. A mother loves her child.

Pamela Vorhees never had a chance to make it to the hospital. Her labor had been unnaturally short, as if the child within her were trying to claw its way out of her womb. The doctor had arrived just in time to deliver Jason in the bedroom. Even from birth, Jason was curiously silent. When the doctor held him up and slapped him, Jason didn't make a sound. For a moment, the doctor was alarmed, thinking that the child might have been stillborn. He slapped Jason once again, a little harder [65] this time, again with no response, and then he noticed that the child's eyes were open and staring straight at him with an astonishing expression—one that almost seemed like cold, venomous fury. It staggered him to see such searing hatred in the gaze of a newborn child. But that surely would have been impossible and he decided that it must have been only his imagination. Yet, for months thereafter, he dreamed of those loathsome, hate-filled infant eyes.

Even as a child, Jason was unusual. No one ever saw him smile. He never gurgled with delight at the brightly colored mobile that was hung above his crib or that the toys that he was given. He never screamed when he needed to be changed and he displayed no reaction whatsoever when his first teeth came in. He acted as though he didn't feel the pain.

He never woke his mother in the middle of the night with crying. Sometimes, feeling the anxiety that every mother of a newborn feels, Pamela Vorhees would awaken at night and tiptoe to the baby's room just to reassure herself that there was nothing wrong. She would look down into the crib and see her infant Jason lying on his bed, his eyes wide open, staring at her. He never made a sound.

For a while, she was afraid that there might be something wrong with him, that perhaps he was autistic, one of those tragic children who were withdrawn into their own secret, silent world. But Jason was not withdrawn. He no- [66] ticed everything. His reactions were unusually quick and sharp. He was incredibly alert and his sense were remarkably acute. He grew strong quickly, and he never became ill.

He had no playmates because the other children avoided him. They seemed to be afraid of him. They ran away from him and complained about his "creepy eyes." In truth, there was nothing at all unusual about his eyes, except for the fact that, like a cobra, he never seemed to blink. The neighbors could never really explain why, when they were walking back from the train station after riding home from work, they always crossed to the opposite side of the street whenever Jason was outside playing. It was as if some involuntary reaction had taken hold of them, some primal instinct warning them away.

As commuters who worked in the city, they understood the subtle instincts that were at work. In a city full of predators, you learned to trust your feelings. And they had some very strong feelings about the little Vorhees boy. He made their skin crawl. It wasn't something they openly admitted to themselves, because it would have sounded silly and it made no sense, but irrationally, it was there. It felt profoundly disturbing to be near him.

He baffled all his teachers, although he affected a few of them much more strongly. One of them abruptly quit her job and moved away from town. His third-grade teacher, a shy young woman, offered her body to the principal if he [67] would only move the boy out of her class. And the school psychologist who had tried to reach him wound up being "reached" himself and had a breakdown. The poor man was put into a straitjacket and taken to an institution.

It seemed that something strange happened to everyone who came near Jason Vorhees. All except his mother. A mother loves her child. She was always hovering near him protectively, always ready to defend him. She had wanted her son to experience the pleasures of a summer in the woods and so she had taken the job as cook at Camp Crystal Lake just so she could stay near him. Only as it turned out, she wasn't able to stay near enough.

She was beside herself with worry the night he disappeared, and when his clothes were found by the lake, Pamela Vorhees went berserk. It had been necessary to restrain her and take her to the county hospital, where she was sedated. Although they never found the body of the boy, the official verdict was that it was death by drowning. Pamela Vorhees never recovered from the shock.

Jason's memories of what happened on the night he drowned were very dim. He remembered being frightened as his legs cramped up and he started to slip beneath the surface of the lake. He had a vague memory of struggling to say afloat, of water rushing down his throat and filling up his lungs; he could recall the terrifying sensation of sinking down into [68] the murky lake, the fading light, the roaring in his ears… and then nothing.

At some point, consciousness returned, but he had no way of telling how much time had passed. He came to on the shore, covered from head to toe with mud and slime, apparently having dragged himself out of the lake somehow. He coughed up water for a very long time. He remembered lying in the bushes and retching, vomiting up slimy worms and maggots as his body fought its way back to life.

It never occurred to him to wonder what it was that made him different from the others—why they shrank from him as rabbits shrank from snakes. He never asked himself why he was always healthy, why the slight injuries of childhood had always healed so quickly. He had never broken any bones, so no one ever had the opportunity to notice the supernatural way his body could repair itself. Pamela Vorhees never questioned it, just as she never questioned his peculiar silence. A mother loves her child. She was simply grateful for having been blessed with a healthy little boy. Like father, like son.

It did not occur to Jason Vorhees to wonder just how long he had been underwater. He merely dragged himself deeper into the woods, some primitive urge driving him to find a hole somewhere that he could crawl into, a dark place where he could rest, and heal, and wait until he could think of what to do.

After a while, he returned back to the camp, [69] his simple mind telling him that perhaps it was what he was supposed to do. Only there was no longer anybody there. The season had changed and the camp was closed. He broke into several of the cabins and found some cans of food and some old clothes for himself. In the process, he happened to catch sight of himself in a mirror and he recoiled in horror from the image that confronted him. He had been at the bottom of the lake for much longer than he'd realized. His flesh was trying to regenerate and heal itself, but decomposition had set in. The worms had eaten at his face.

He fled into the woods, terrified of his own reflection. After a while, he found a sack and cut some holes in it, then put it over his head and tied it down around his neck, so that he wouldn't have to see the grotesque thing he had become if he saw his reflection in the lake.

He had no idea what to do or where to go. He wondered why his mother didn't come for him. He was afraid to leave the vicinity of the camp, for that was where he'd seen her last and he didn't want to miss her if she came looking for him. He didn't want to get in trouble.

He lived like an animal, hiding in the woods, avoiding people, killing small creatures for food. He was vaguely aware of time passing, though his days became an endless succession of wandering in the woods and foraging. He was aware of feeling cold as winter came. He took shelter in the cabins at the camp and huddled before fires he built inside the hearths. He had learned [70] to make fires in camp, though several times he did it wrong and let the flames get out of control, burning down a couple of the cabins before he got the hang of it.

On occasion, a policeman would drive by and see smoke curling from the chimney of a cabin that was supposed to be locked up for the winter. He would stop to investigate, but Jason always ran back into the woods whenever anybody came. He was waiting for his mother and he did not want to get in trouble. He knew she would be very angry.

And then, one day, his mother had returned. Some people had come to open up the camp again and he had run off into the woods, hiding from them and watching as they rebuilt the place. Years had passed and he was now full grown, though still with the mind of a small child. But whatever vestige of sanity might have been left in that childlike brain had been driven out by the hardships he had suffered and by the sight of his mother, mad with grief, embarking upon her bloody murder spree.

He had been afraid, because she had seemed so angry. He had hidden in the woods and watched on that fateful night when Pamela Vorhees had unleashed her vengeance on those whom she blamed for her son's death. She had killed them all except one girl, and Jason had watched her struggle with the last survivor, Alice. He had seen that awful moment when the girl had picked up the machete his mother [71] had dropped and swung it with a savage desperation.

He would never forget the sight of his mother's decapitated body falling to the ground like a puppet with its strings cut, the stump of her neck spouting arcs of bright-red blood, her head falling to the ground like a ripe melon, rolling several feet and then stopping, the eyelashes still fluttering as it lay upon the ground.

When the girl had pushed off from the shore in the canoe, he had hesitantly crept out of hiding and approached his mother's body. He had stared down at it incomprehendingly [sic], at the vivid red of her blood soaking into the ground, at the raw, torn flesh and the white bone where the machete had chopped completely through the neck like an ax through a small sapling.

He had knelt down and picked up his mother's severed head, holding it tenderly so that the sightless, death-glazed eyes looked up at him. He had stared out into the darkness of the lake, looking in the direction where the girl who had done this to his mother had gone, and whatever fragile links his tortured mind still had reality had snapped like the neck bones of the little forest creatures that he caught and killed for his survival.

The girl named Alice had escaped him once, and the fury of his frustration knew no bounds, but then she had come back and he knew that he had been given another chance to make things right. He had spotted her that day when [72] she had returned to the camp. She had stood at the lakeshore near the boat dock, staring out over the water. She had returned to the place where her nightmare had happened, to see it once again, to confront it and to reassure herself that it was over now and that there was nothing left to fear.

When Jason had seen her standing there, the lust to kill had welled up within him, burning like napalm in his mind. He had started for her, but before he could reach her, she had gotten back into her car and driven off. Fueled by a grim determination, he had followed her on the road back to the town of Crystal Lake, staying out of sight, waiting until night fell.

Each night thereafter, he had stalked the streets of Crystal Lake, always keeping to the shadows, looking for her car. He had always taken his mother with him, carrying her decaying head inside a sack so that she could be with him when he did it, so that she would know that he was doing the right thing. Then one night he had seen her car parked outside an old Victorian house that had been converted into several apartments. And he had seen the open window.

He had killed her, punching the ice pick through her skull and driving it deep into her brain, and then he had taken her body with him back to the cabin in the woods, carrying it over his shoulder and slipping out of town like a grisly specter in the night. For a while, there had been peace. The rage had gone away and [73] the hunger that had clawed at him like a ravenous animal left him alone. He had stayed with his mother in the woods and, for a while, he had been happy. They were together. He had done the right thing and he knew she would be pleased. Yet now they had returned once more, the same ones who had hurt him, the same ones who had hurt his mother, and he knew that there would be no more rest for him until he killed them all. He had to do it. It's what his mother would have wanted.

Note that this means that Jason, not Pamela, was responsible for at least some of the fires mentioned at Camp Crystal Lake in Friday the 13th. (She may have started some fires herself, of course.)

We know that Pamela Voorhees tried to reanimate her son with a copy of the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, but she clearly did not know he had returned as a revenant; as far as she knew, the ritual had failed. It probably did, because as we see in Hawke, Jason Voorhees was already abhuman before his death, and had already revived. His perspective in Hawke's novelizations has none of the Deadites' characteristic plural self-reference, and he is clearly sensible of pain during his 1984 murder spree. I think the Necronomicon ritual marked him in some way, but did not actually effect his reanimation; his own 'healing factor' did that, but his encounter with Tommy Jarvis left him too damaged to reanimate on his own. The lightning strike combined his own abhuman nature with the Kandarian 'marker.' explaining why he still does not act like a typical Deadite.

As an aside, this makes him very much like the twice-cursed Michael Myers, obsessed by both the spirit of primitive Celtic murderer Enda (Halloween: The Novel) and by the Mark of Thorn (Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers). Freddy Krueger also has some claim to at least two separate sources of his power, as guardian of the Nightmare Gate (A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Master) and as demoniac of the Dream Demons (Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare).

Edit: This does also mean that Chris Higgins probably did kill Jason Voorhees in 1984 -- twice. She's just less thorough at killing than Tommy Jarvis, who put in the effort to ensure that Voorhees was all dead rather than mostly dead.

 

[Publius]

I remember several years ago I saw a comment somewhere about the Tom Cruise version saying "no mummy should be made without Brendon Frasier" and that kinda peeved me because it's also insulting the Mummy movies from before that trilogy was even made. Like you're going to disrespect the Boris Karloff original???

I liked it better as the Bela Lugosi original.

 

[user 16960]

No, Jason Voorhees has been some species of revenant since his death on June 13, 1957. Simon Hawk, Friday the 13th Part II: A Novel (Signet Books, 1988), explicitly confirms that he drowned in Crystal Lake and was revived. As the novelization is not widely available, I'll post a lengthy passage discussing this. Note that Hawke consistently spells the name Voorhees as "Vorhees" in all three of his novelizations; I assume this reflects a family preference that was never formally reflected in government records. In the following passage, I've marked page numbers in square brackets:


Note that this means that Jason, not Pamela, was responsible for at least some of the fires mentioned at Camp Crystal Lake in Friday the 13th. (She may have started some fires herself, of course.)

We know that Pamela Voorhees tried to reanimate her son with a copy of the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, but she clearly did not know he had returned as a revenant; as far as she knew, the ritual had failed. It probably did, because as we see in Hawke, Jason Voorhees was already abhuman before his death, and had already revived. His perspective in Hawke's novelizations has none of the Deadites' characteristic plural self-reference, and he is clearly sensible of pain during his 1984 murder spree. I think the Necronomicon ritual marked him in some way, but did not actually effect his reanimation; his own 'healing factor' did that, but his encounter with Tommy Jarvis left him too damaged to reanimate on his own. The lightning strike combined his own abhuman nature with the Kandarian 'marker.' explaining why he still does not act like a typical Deadite.

As an aside, this makes him very much like the twice-cursed Michael Myers, obsessed by both the spirit of primitive Celtic murderer Enda (Halloween: The Novel) and by the Mark of Thorn (Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers). Freddy Krueger also has some claim to at least two separate sources of his power, as guardian of the Nightmare Gate (A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Master) and as demoniac of the Dream Demons (Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare).

Isn't Leatherface arguably also supernatural with the whole Astrology thing going on with the Hitchhiker and stuff at the beginning?

 

[Publius]

Isn't Leatherface arguably also supernatural with the whole Astrology thing going on with the Hitchhiker and stuff at the beginning?

The Sawyers definitely practice some variant of Hoodoo, with something that could be ancestor-worship; in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Drayton Sawyer calls out "Great-Grandma in Chainsaw Heaven, don't hoodoo the boy!" in propitiation, and the corpse of the woman herself is kept in an ossuarial shrine. There's no indication that their religious practices have any preternatural effect, though.

Drayton's discussion of Grandfather's "old ways" of butchery in the same movie suggest that some sort of idiosyncratic meat ideology somehow fused with Hoodoo (probably in the maternal line) to produce the cannibalistic, body-oriented subculture we see in the films.

 

[user 16960]

I'm surprised they haven't done a prequel about the grandfather yet tbh. It feels like it would be prequel bait with him being seemingly an even more ruthless killer in the past than any of the other family members. Have it be set in the 1890s, wild west era.

 

[stphylcccs]

No, Jason Voorhees has been some species of revenant since his death on June 13, 1957. Simon Hawk, Friday the 13th Part II: A Novel (Signet Books, 1988), explicitly confirms that he drowned in Crystal Lake and was revived. As the novelization is not widely available, I'll post a lengthy passage discussing this. Note that Hawke consistently spells the name Voorhees as "Vorhees" in all three of his novelizations; I assume this reflects a family preference that was never formally reflected in government records. In the following passage, I've marked page numbers in square brackets:


Note that this means that Jason, not Pamela, was responsible for at least some of the fires mentioned at Camp Crystal Lake in Friday the 13th. (She may have started some fires herself, of course.)

We know that Pamela Voorhees tried to reanimate her son with a copy of the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, but she clearly did not know he had returned as a revenant; as far as she knew, the ritual had failed. It probably did, because as we see in Hawke, Jason Voorhees was already abhuman before his death, and had already revived. His perspective in Hawke's novelizations has none of the Deadites' characteristic plural self-reference, and he is clearly sensible of pain during his 1984 murder spree. I think the Necronomicon ritual marked him in some way, but did not actually effect his reanimation; his own 'healing factor' did that, but his encounter with Tommy Jarvis left him too damaged to reanimate on his own. The lightning strike combined his own abhuman nature with the Kandarian 'marker.' explaining why he still does not act like a typical Deadite.

As an aside, this makes him very much like the twice-cursed Michael Myers, obsessed by both the spirit of primitive Celtic murderer Enda (Halloween: The Novel) and by the Mark of Thorn (Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers). Freddy Krueger also has some claim to at least two separate sources of his power, as guardian of the Nightmare Gate (A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Master) and as demoniac of the Dream Demons (Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare).

Edit: This does also mean that Chris Higgins probably did kill Jason Voorhees in 1984 -- twice. She's just less thorough at killing than Tommy Jarvis, who put in the effort to ensure that Voorhees was all dead rather than mostly dead.

I'm aware of this, I think what I was saying was when he first became in a state to begin rotting

 

[Publius]

I'm surprised they haven't done a prequel about the grandfather yet tbh. It feels like it would be prequel bait with him being seemingly an even more ruthless killer in the past than any of the other family members. Have it be set in the 1890s, wild west era.

There is, of course, the felicitous fact that the earliest timber chain saw models were developed in the first decade of the 20th century.

We're unlikely to ever see it, but I think it would be fascinating to see how Chucky, one of the few Slasherverse characters with a distinct religious identity, would respond to the Sawyers. Voodoo, Hoodoo, Vodun, and Santería all share a common Yoruba heritage.

 

[Publius]

Apparently there's a documentary about the movie in an attempt to find it, I'll watch that some time in the foreseeable future, see if it has anything on the actual plot of the movie

What documentary is this? I don't think I've heard about this.

At this point, I don't think anything unreleased regarding the movie can be canonical, since it hasn't been released. That being said, any public-facing material -- the website, the trailer, publicity photos, &c. -- can be.

I also regard Kim Henkel's Butcher Boys as being deuterocanonical.

 

[BMarrow]

What documentary is this? I don't think I've heard about this.

At this point, I don't think anything unreleased regarding the movie can be canonical, since it hasn't been released. That being said, any public-facing material -- the website, the trailer, publicity photos, &c. -- can be.

I also regard Kim Henkel's Butcher Boys as being deuterocanonical.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13902622/

 

[Publius]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13902622/

I hadn't heard about that all. Thank you.

Does it occur to anyone else that the IMDB description of this documentary sounds exactly like the introductory plot of a Texas Chain Saw Massacre movie?

 

[zombie dude]

There's a comic were the Fantastic four go to a earth that looks like the slasher verse

 

[stphylcccs]

There's a comic were the Fantastic four go to a earth that looks like the slasher verseView attachment 4766

I guess we'll have to wait and see what reality number they give it

 

[Pro Bot]

Night of the Living Dead Franchise
George A. Romero Timeline
1962 - The Rise #1
1962 - The Rise #2
1965 - The Rise #3
1968 - Night of the Living Dead (1968)
1968 - Creepshow 3x06, "Drug Traffic/A Dead Girl Named Sue" [2nd Story]
1968 - Diary of the Dead
1968 - Survival of the Dead
1968 - Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green
1969 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #1, "The Death of Death, Part One"
1969 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #2, "The Death of Death, Part Two"
1969 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #3, "The Death of Death, Part Three"
1969 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #4, "The Death of Death, Part Four"
1969 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #5, "The Death of Death, Part Five"
1969 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #6, "The Death of Death, Conclusion"
1969 - Dawn of the Dead (1978)
1969 - Day of the Dead (1985)
1971 - Escape of the Living Dead #1
1971 - Escape of the Living Dead #2
1971 - Escape of the Living Dead #3
1971 - Escape of the Living Dead #4
1971 - Escape of the Living Dead #5
1971 - Escape of the Living Dead: Fearbook #1
1971 - Escape of the Living Dead: Airborne #1
1971 - Escape of the Living Dead: Airborne #2
1971 - Escape of the Living Dead: Airborne #3
1971 - Escape of the Living Dead Annual
1973 - Land of the Dead
1973 - Empire of the Dead #1
1973 - Empire of the Dead #2
1973 - Empire of the Dead #3
1973 - Empire of the Dead #4
1973 - Empire of the Dead #5
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Two #1
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Two #2
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Two #3
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Two #4
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Two #5
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Three #1
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Three #2
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Three #3
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Three #4
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Three #5
1979 - Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell #1
1979 - Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell #2
1979 - Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell #3
1983 - The Living Dead

John A. Russo Timeline
1984 - The Return of the Living Dead
1985 - Return of the Living Dead
1988 - Return of the Living Dead Part II
1993 - Return of the Living Dead 3
2004 - Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis
2005 - Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave
Note: Night of the Living Dead (1968) is referred to an in-universe film based on real events.

Night of the Living Dead (1990) Timeline
1989 - Night of the Living Dead (1990)

Dawn of the Dead (2004) Timeline
2004 - Dawn of the Dead (2004)
2004 - Special Report: Zombie Invasion!
2004 - The Lost Tape: Andy's Terrifying Last Days Revealed

Day of the Dead (2008) Timeline
2008 - Day of the Dead (2008)

 

[iceman109]

Night of the Living Dead Timeline
1962 - The Rise #1
1962 - The Rise #2
1965 - The Rise #3
1968 - Diary of the Dead
1968 - Night of the Living Dead
1968 - Creepshow 3x06, "Drug Traffic/A Dead Girl Named Sue" [2nd Story]
1968 - Survival of the Dead
1968 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #1, "The Death of Death, Part One"
1968 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #2, "The Death of Death, Part Two"
1968 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #3, "The Death of Death, Part Three"
1968 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #4, "The Death of Death, Part Four"
1968 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #5, "The Death of Death, Part Five"
1968 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #6, "The Death of Death, Conclusion"
1969 - Dawn of the Dead
1969 - Day of the Dead
1973 - Land of the Dead
1973 - Empire of the Dead #1
1973 - Empire of the Dead #2
1973 - Empire of the Dead #3
1973 - Empire of the Dead #4
1973 - Empire of the Dead #5
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Two #1
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Two #2
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Two #3
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Two #4
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Two #5
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Three #1
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Three #2
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Three #3
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Three #4
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Three #5
1979 - Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell #1
1979 - Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell #2
1979 - Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell #3
1983 - The Living Dead

Would it be a Gotham situation with things being advanced while others are period correct technology

 

[Pro Bot]

Would it be a Gotham situation with things being advanced while others are period correct technology

I guess.

 

[JudgeDreddpool]

1968 - Night of the Living Dead

Are we considering the original or the remake?

 

[Pro Bot]

Are we considering the original or the remake?

The original, of course. The remake is a different timeline.

 

[iceman109]

Night of the Living Dead Timeline
1962 - The Rise #1
1962 - The Rise #2
1965 - The Rise #3
1968 - Diary of the Dead
1968 - Night of the Living Dead
1968 - Creepshow 3x06, "Drug Traffic/A Dead Girl Named Sue" [2nd Story]
1968 - Survival of the Dead
1968 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #1, "The Death of Death, Part One"
1968 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #2, "The Death of Death, Part Two"
1968 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #3, "The Death of Death, Part Three"
1968 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #4, "The Death of Death, Part Four"
1968 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #5, "The Death of Death, Part Five"
1968 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #6, "The Death of Death, Conclusion"
1969 - Dawn of the Dead
1969 - Day of the Dead
1973 - Land of the Dead
1973 - Empire of the Dead #1
1973 - Empire of the Dead #2
1973 - Empire of the Dead #3
1973 - Empire of the Dead #4
1973 - Empire of the Dead #5
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Two #1
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Two #2
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Two #3
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Two #4
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Two #5
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Three #1
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Three #2
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Three #3
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Three #4
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Three #5
1979 - Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell #1
1979 - Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell #2
1979 - Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell #3
1983 - The Living Dead

What about timelines for the various remakes and "sequels"

 

[Publius]

Night of the Living Dead Franchise
Original Timeline
1962 - The Rise #1
1962 - The Rise #2
1965 - The Rise #3
1968 - Diary of the Dead
1968 - Night of the Living Dead (1968)
1968 - Creepshow 3x06, "Drug Traffic/A Dead Girl Named Sue" [2nd Story]
1968 - Survival of the Dead
1968 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #1, "The Death of Death, Part One"
1968 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #2, "The Death of Death, Part Two"
1968 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #3, "The Death of Death, Part Three"
1968 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #4, "The Death of Death, Part Four"
1968 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #5, "The Death of Death, Part Five"
1968 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #6, "The Death of Death, Conclusion"
1969 - Dawn of the Dead
1969 - Day of the Dead
1973 - Land of the Dead
1973 - Empire of the Dead #1
1973 - Empire of the Dead #2
1973 - Empire of the Dead #3
1973 - Empire of the Dead #4
1973 - Empire of the Dead #5
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Two #1
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Two #2
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Two #3
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Two #4
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Two #5
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Three #1
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Three #2
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Three #3
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Three #4
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Three #5
1979 - Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell #1
1979 - Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell #2
1979 - Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell #3
1983 - The Living Dead


Night of the Living Dead (1990) Timeline
1989 - Night of the Living Dead (1990)

George Romero and Susanna Sparrow's Dawn of the Dead (Lobdon: Sphere Books Ltd, 1979), 22, say that "the stock market had plummeted way below the lowest point of the Carter administration," and add that there is "a presidential election coming up."