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This is not a traditional shared universe. Rights issues prevent these from crossing over beyond references, but there's a loosely defined reality in which the main Slasher icons co-exist. There are character crossovers, like Stretch from Texas 2 in Hatchet III, and references to the other killers in other films, such as The Mask of Leslie Vernon treating the Halloween, Friday and Nightmare series to be canonical to it's continuity.
In regards to a detailed timeline, I would argue that each of these series should be placed in their own detailed timelines to start with. After that, a timeline that includes all of these franchises can be made.
Crossovers
The Evil Dead was shown as an in-universe movie in A Nightmare on Elm Street. This is either an unrelated movie in-universe that just happens to look exactly like The Evil Dead or Freddy is using his powers to broadcast the events of The Evil Dead on TV using the Army of Darkness timeloop.
Evil Dead 2 and Ash vs Evil Dead both show Freddy Krueger's glove in the Knowby cabin. Freddy likely spent some time here at some point. Friday the 13th: Part 2 is playing in the cinema in 1982. This fits with the Adam Green's Hatchet comic, which takes place in 1985 and is about the production of an in-universe movie based on the Victor Crowley legend known as Hatchet-Face. The characters in the comic references A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th and Texas Chainsaw Massacre as existing films. Based on connections in Friday the 13th: The Game and Hatchet II, these must be in-universe movies based on the legends.
Fluffy's crate appears in Jason Goes to Hell. It looks visually different to the version in the short, and it doesn't make sense how it would end up in the Voorhees house. It can be assumed that this is perhaps a different crate from the same exhibition. The Necronomicon and Deadites appear in the Creepshow TV series.
Rick Cologne from Friday the 13th: Part VI: Jason Lives appears in Shocker under his mother's maiden name Pastori, as revealed in Friday the 13th: The Game.
Child's Play #1 features an out-of-continuity page with Chucky standing triumphantly amidst various slasher killer masks and weapons. Jason, Leatherface, Michael and Freddy are all represented, as well as a facehugger from the Alien series. Child's Play #2 references a Dream Killer who has plagued Springwood, Ohio for years.
In Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings, the pages with which Pumpkinhead is summoned with are from the Necronomicon, with the same design seen in the Evil Dead franchise. In Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes, a ton of Lament Configurations can be seen on Dr. Fraser's desk.
Jason vs Leatherface is a crossover between Friday the 13th and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It is awful continuity-wize because it tries to be a prequel to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre but a sequel to Friday the 13th: Part VI: Jason Lives, which can't work in both continuities, but I guess you can assume the Illuminati gave Leatherface a new family with the same name and identity as some of his dead family members, and Jason somehow ended up back at the bottom of Camp Crystal Lake offscreen. However, I think it's clearly just made for fun and probably not intended to be canon.
Bride of Chucky starts with a scene in an evidence locker, showing various other collected evidence from other slasher killers. Jason's mask, Freddy's glove, Leatherface's chainsaw and Michael's mask appears. Michael's mask helps prove that Halloween 4-6 is the canonical version of events for this universe, since it was left on the ground in Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers.
Jason Goes to Hell featured the Necronomicon from the Evil Dead series. The director came up with the idea while talking with Sam Raimi. "She [Pamela Voorhees] makes a deal with the devil by reading from the Necronomicon to bring back her son. This is why Jason isn’t Jason. He’s Jason plus The Evil Dead, and now I can believe that he can go from a little boy that lives in a lake, to a full grown man in a couple of months, to Zombie Jason, to never being able to kill this guy. That, to me, is way more interesting as a mashup, and Raimi loved it! It’s not like I could tell New Line my plan to include The Evil Dead, because they don’t own The Evil Dead. So it had to be an Easter egg, and I did focus on it…there’s a whole scene that includes the book, and I hoped people would get it and could figure out that’s what I’m up to. So yes, in my opinion, Jason Voorhees is a Deadite. He’s one of The Evil Dead. It absolutely is canon.” Jason is also killed by the Voorhees (Kandarian) dagger. Canonically, this would be a separate copy of the Necronomicon, like the one seen in Evil Dead (2013).
Freddy's glove grabs Jason's mask at the end of Jason Goes to Hell, teasing the future Freddy vs Jason film. Freddy vs Jason is a crossover between Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street.
The comic book A Nightmare on Elm Street: Special features a newspaper with the headlines "Leatherface Returns".
Parker O'Neil from Frozen appears in Hatchet 2 talking to news cameras about her lawsuit and settlement against the ski mountain from the film. Jason Voorhees and Leslie Vernon are referenced in the film as other existing killers.
According to Caroline Williams, her character in Hatchet III, Amanda Fowler, is a continuation of her other character, Vanita 'Stretch' Brock, from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Part 2. This proves that this universe follows the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre timeline.
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon is set in this universe, referencing the characters and showing the towns from the Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street and Halloween series. Chucky is also referenced. Michael Myers was involved with at least 4 different incidents, further solidifying that this follows the Halloween 4-6 timeline.
The Lament Configuration appears in Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon. Based on every other reference being counted as each series being canonical, I can only assume that the intent was to imply that Hellraiser actually happened within the universe of this movie even though it's a small easter egg. The Bride of Chucky contains a reference to Pinhead, where Chucky thinks a man with pins covering his head looks familiar. There was also plans to have Pinhead in Freddy vs Jason at one point, and there was to be a Hellraiser and Halloween crossover at another time.
Eugene in Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon was intended to be Billy from Black Christmas. David J. Stieve stated “I can confirm that Eugene has always been Billy in my mind. Scott (Wilson) would be the right age for him, and it always fit for me that Eugene would have that “old school” nostalgia and slight professional jealousy that even though he was a pioneer in the business of fear, he never achieved the fame or notoriety of his successors (Michael, Jason, etc).” This connects Black Christmas into the universe.
Soon after this, Scott Glosserman confirmed that the events in The Toolbox Murders were another job by "Eugene". It appears that Kent Kingsley is Eugene's real name, and he became Billy after the events of the movie. Billy and Kent look very similar to one another so they can easily be made into the same character. Kent is supposedly killed off-screen, but he must have survived his wounds, perhaps even having had brain damage that regressed him into his maniacal state.
The comic book Freddy vs Jason vs Ash is a crossover between the Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Evil Dead franchises, and a sequel to Freddy vs Jason based on the original script that pits them against Ash Williams from the Evil Dead franchise. It definitely takes place on Earth-818793, part of the Marvel Multiverse and designation of the Army of Darkness comics along with the rest of the Dynamite Comics Universe. It is not part of the universe of the Evil Dead films.
In Friday the 13th: The Game, the fifth Tommy tape mentions that Tommy got kicked out of four programs. One in Westin Hills (A Nightmare on Elm Street), another in Smith's Grove (Halloween), Glen Echo (Behind the Mask) and New Orleans (Hatchet), with Tommy claiming to hear a man crying for his father in the nearby swamp every night while he was in New Orleans Psychiatric, a reference to Victor Crowley.
Possible Inclusions
Sharknado Universe
Vanita 'Stretch' Brock appears in Sharknado: The 4th Awakens. Because of her death in Hatchet III, and the apocalyptic ending, it can assumed that this is an alternate version of Stretch, and the Slasherverse is created at the end of The Last Sharknado: It's About Time. Z-Nation is set in the Sharknadoverse, and is about the zombie apocalypse. If this were to fit within the Slasherverse, I assume Z-Nation is set in the new timeline and the near future and leads into the apocalyptic ending seen in Ash vs Evil Dead and perhaps the Army of Darkness: Director's Cut. Due to the parody nature of the Sharknadoverse and how convoluted it is, I'm not including it, but it can be considered an alternate timeline branching from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Part 2.
Darkman
Darkman vs Army of Darkness is a crossover between Evil Dead and Darkman, and is set after the events of Darkman III: Die, Darkman, Die. Arguably it could be canon, but I feel more comfortable placing it in a standalone Darkman continuity due to the nature of Evil Dead comics being standalone.
Re-Animator
The Army of Darkness versus Reanimator: Necronomicon Rising is a crossover between the Evil Dead and Re-Animator film series. It's confusing in when it is set in the Re-Animator timeline but most likely between Re-Animator and Bride of Re-Animator. Arguably it could be canon, but I feel more comfortable placing it in a standalone Re-Animator continuity due to the nature of Evil Dead comics being standalone.
Bubba Ho-Tep
Army of Darkness/Bubba Ho-Tep is a crossover between the Evil Dead film series and Bubba Ho-Tep. It is a sequel to both Bubba Ho-Tep and the Bubba Ho-Tep and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers comic book. Arguably it could be canon, but I feel more comfortable placing it in a standalone Bubba Ho-Tep continuity due to the nature of Evil Dead comics being standalone.
Alternate Continuity
The Dynamite Comics Universe (Earth-818793) features near identical versions of Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, Charles Lee Ray and Victor Crowley. They are, however, different to their cinematic counterparts.
For example, the Earth-818793 version of Jason Goes to Hell took place 10 years earlier than it does in the cinematic timeline, and Freddy and Jason's comic book stories never occurred in that reality. Hatchet/Slash was said to be set between Hatchet II and Hatchet III, though it couldn't be because Hatchet III picks up immediately after Hatchet II, and it couldn't be set between Hatchet III and Victor Crowley. Logically it would be set prior to the first film, but official word places it after Hatchet II.
Franchise List
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Black Christmas
The Toolbox Murders
Halloween
Friday the 13th
Evil Dead
Creepshow
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Hellraiser
Pumpkinhead
Child's Play
Shocker
Behind the Mask
Hatchet
Frozen
Timeline
1957 - Friday the 13th: The Game: Pamela Tapes 1-20
1967 - The Toolbox Murders
1973 - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
1974 - Black Christmas
1978 - Within the Woods
1978 - Halloween
1978 - Halloween II
1979 - Friday the 13th
1979 - Friday the 13th: Pamala's Tale #1-2
1979 - KISS/Army of Darkness #1-5
1981 - A Nightmare on Elm Street
1982 - Creepshow
1982 - Stephen King's Creepshow
1982 - Evil Dead: The Game: Knowby Recording 1-8
1982 - The Evil Dead
1982 - Evil Dead: The Game: Knowby Recording 9
1982 - Evil Dead 2
1982 - Evil Dead: The Game: Knowby Recording 10
1982 - Army of Darkness: Director's Cut
1982 - Army of Darkness (Ending)
1984 - Friday the 13th: Part 2
1984 - Friday the 13th: Part III
1984 - Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
1984 - Friday the 13th: The Game: Tapes 1-3
1985 - Friday the 13th: The Game: Tapes 4
1985 - Adam Green's Hatchet #1-3
1986 - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Part 2
1986 - A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
1987 - A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987 - Creepshow 2
1987 - Hellraiser
1987 - Hellbound: Hellraiser II
1988 - A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
1988 - Pumpkinhead
1988 - Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
1988 - Child's Play
1989 - A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
1989 - Friday the 13th: The Game: Tapes 5
1989 - Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
1989 - Friday the 13th: The Game: Tapes 6-8
1989 - Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
1990 - Freddy Krueger's A Nightmare on Elm Street #1-2
1990 - Nightmares on Elm Street #1-2
1990 - Friday the 13th: The Game: Tapes 9
1990 - Friday the 13th: Part VI: Jason Lives
1990 - Friday the 13th: The Game: Tapes 10-11
1990 - Child's Play 2
1990 - Child's Play #1-5
1991 - Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
1992 - Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
1993 - Shocker
1993 - Friday the 13th: The Game: Tapes 12
1993 - Pumpkinhead: The Rites of Exorcism #1-2
1993 - Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings
1995 - Nightmares on Elm Street #3-6
1995 - Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers
1996 - Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
1997 - Friday the 13th: Part VII: The New Blood
1998 - Friday the 13th: Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
1998 - Friday the 13th: The Game: Tapes 13
1998 - Child's Play 3
1998 - The Bride of Chucky
1999 - Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
1999 - A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Beginning #1-2
1999 - Hellraiser: Inferno
1999 - Halloween #1
1999 - Halloween II: The Blackest Eyes
2001 - Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
2001 - Halloween III: The Devil's Eyes
2002 - Hellraiser: Hellseeker
2003 - Freddy vs. Jason
2003 - Friday the 13th: Special
2004 - Seed of Chucky
2005 - Hellraiser: Deader
2005 - Hellraiser: Hellworld
2005 - Friday the 13th: Bloodbath #1-3
2005 - Friday the 13th: Fearbook
2005 - A Nightmare on Elm Street: Special
2005 - A Nightmare on Elm Street: Paranoid #1-3
2006 - Creepshow 3
2006 - A Nightmare on Elm Street: Fearbook
2006 - Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes
2006 - Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
2007 - Adam Green's Hatchet: Vengeance #1-3
2007 - Frozen
2007 - Hatchet
2007 - Adam Green's Hatchet #0
2007 - Hatchet II
2007 - Hatchet III
2007 - Pumpkinhead 4: Blood Feud
2007 - A Nightmare on Elm Street #1-8
2007 - Friday the 13th #1-6
2007 - Friday the 13th: How I Spent My Summer Vacation #1-2
2007 - New Line Cinema's Tales of Horror, "Copycat"
2008 - Friday the 13th: Bad Land #1-2
2008 - Friday the 13th: Abuser and the Abused
2009 - Chucky #1-4
2009 - Chucky (Vol. 2) #1
2009 - Creepshow Raw 1x01, "Insomnia"
2010 - Evil Dead: Extended Cut
2011 - Hellraiser: Revelations
2012 - Ash vs Evil Dead 1x01, "El Jefe"
2012 - Ash vs Evil Dead 1x02, "Bait"
2012 - Ash vs Evil Dead 1x03, "Books from Beyond"
2012 - Ash vs Evil Dead 1x04, "Brujo"
2012 - Ash vs Evil Dead 1x05, "The Host"
2012 - Ash vs Evil Dead 1x06, "The Killer of Killers"
2012 - Ash vs Evil Dead 1x07, "Fire in the Hole"
2012 - Ash vs Evil Dead 1x08, "Ashes to Ashes"
2012 - Ash vs Evil Dead 1x09, "Bound in Flesh"
2012 - Ash vs Evil Dead 1x10, "The Dark One"
2013 - Curse of Chucky
2013 - Ash vs Evil Dead 2x01, "Home"
2013 - Ash vs Evil Dead 2x02, "The Morgue"
2013 - Ash vs Evil Dead 2x03, "Last Call"
2013 - Ash vs Evil Dead 2x04, "DUI"
2013 - Ash vs Evil Dead 2x05, "Confinement"
2013 - Ash vs Evil Dead 2x06, "Trapped Inside"
2013 - Ash vs Evil Dead 2x07, "Delusion"
2013 - Ash vs Evil Dead 2x08, "Ashy Slashy"
2013 - Ash vs Evil Dead 2x09, "Home Again"
2013 - Ash vs Evil Dead 2x10, "Second Coming"
2016 - Ash vs Evil Dead 3x01, "Family"
2016 - Ash vs Evil Dead 3x02, "Booth Three"
2016 - Ash vs Evil Dead 3x03, "Apparently Dead"
2016 - Ash vs Evil Dead 3x04, "Unfinished Business"
2016 - Ash vs Evil Dead 3x05, "Baby Proof"
2016 - Ash vs Evil Dead 3x06, "Tales from the Rift"
2016 - Ash vs Evil Dead 3x07, "Twist and Shout"
2016 - Ash vs Evil Dead 3x08, "Rifting Apart"
2016 - Ash vs Evil Dead 3x09, "Judgement Day"
2016 - Ash vs Evil Dead 3x10, "The Mettle of Man
2017 - Victor Crowley
2017 - Cult of Chucky
2018 - Hellraiser: Judgment
2018 - Pumpkinhead #1-6
2019 - Victor Crowley's Hatchet: Halloween Tales
2019 - Creepshow 1x01, "Gray Matter/The House of the Head"
2019 - Creepshow 1x02, "Bad Wolf Down/The Finger"
2019 - Creepshow 1x03, "All Hallows Eve/The Man in the Suitcase"
2019 - Creepshow 1x04, "The Companion/Lydia Layne's Better Half"
2019 - Creepshow 1x05, "Night of the Paw/Times is Tough in Musky Holler"
2019 - Creepshow 1x06, "Skincrawlers/By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain"
2020 - A Creepshow Animated Special "Survivor Type/Twittering from the Circus of the Dead"
2020 - Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2020 - Victor Crowley's Hatchet: Halloween Tales II
2020 - A Creepshow Holiday Special "Shapeshifters Anonymous"
2021 - Creepshow 2x01, "Model Kid/Public Television Of The Dead"
2021 - Creepshow 2x02, "Dead and Breakfast/Pesticide"
2021 - Creepshow 2x03, "The Right Snuff/Sibling Rivalry"
2021 - Creepshow 2x04, "Pipe Screams/Within the Walls of Madness"
2021 - Creepshow 2x05, "Night of the Living Late Show"
2021 - Creepshow 3x01, "Mums/Queen Bee"
2021 - Creepshow 3x02, "Skeletons in the Closet/Familiar"
2021 - Creepshow 3x03, "The Last Tsuburaya/Okay, I'll Bite"
2021 - Creepshow 3x04, "Stranger Sings/Meter Reader"
2021 - Creepshow 3x05, "Time Out/The Things in Oakwood's Past"
2021 - Creepshow 3x06, "Drug Traffic/A Dead Girl Named Sue"
2021 - Chucky 1x01, "Death by Misadventure"
2021 - Chucky 1x02, "Give Me Something Good to Eat"
2021 - Chucky 1x03, "I Like to Be Hugged"
2021 - Chucky 1x04, "Just Let Go"
2021 - Chucky 1x05, "Little Little Lies"
2021 - Chucky 1x06, "Cape Queer"
2021 - Chucky 1x07, "Twice the Grieving, Double the Loss"
2021 - Chucky 1x08, "An Affair to Dismember"
2021 - Adam Green's Hatchet: Unstoppable Horror
2021 - Victor Crowley's Hatchet: Halloween Tales III
2022 - Chucky 2x01, "Halloween II"
2022 - Chucky 2x02, "The Sinners Are Much More Fun"
2022 - Chucky 2x03, "Hail, Mary!"
2022 - Chucky 2x04, "Death On Denial"
2022 - Chucky 2x05, "Doll on Doll"
2022 - Chucky 2x06, "He is Risen Indeed"
2022 - Chucky 2x07, "Goin' To The Chapel"
2022 - Chucky 2x08, "Chucky Actually"
2022 - Hellraiser
2022 - Creepshow #1-3
2023 - Wait for It
2023 - Evil Dead Rise
2127 - Hellraiser IV: Bloodline
2455 - Jason X
2455 - Jason X: Special
2455 - Friday the 13th: Jason vs Jason X #1-2
In regards to a detailed timeline, I would argue that each of these series should be placed in their own detailed timelines to start with. After that, a timeline that includes all of these franchises can be made.
Crossovers
The Evil Dead was shown as an in-universe movie in A Nightmare on Elm Street. This is either an unrelated movie in-universe that just happens to look exactly like The Evil Dead or Freddy is using his powers to broadcast the events of The Evil Dead on TV using the Army of Darkness timeloop.
Evil Dead 2 and Ash vs Evil Dead both show Freddy Krueger's glove in the Knowby cabin. Freddy likely spent some time here at some point. Friday the 13th: Part 2 is playing in the cinema in 1982. This fits with the Adam Green's Hatchet comic, which takes place in 1985 and is about the production of an in-universe movie based on the Victor Crowley legend known as Hatchet-Face. The characters in the comic references A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th and Texas Chainsaw Massacre as existing films. Based on connections in Friday the 13th: The Game and Hatchet II, these must be in-universe movies based on the legends.
Fluffy's crate appears in Jason Goes to Hell. It looks visually different to the version in the short, and it doesn't make sense how it would end up in the Voorhees house. It can be assumed that this is perhaps a different crate from the same exhibition. The Necronomicon and Deadites appear in the Creepshow TV series.
Rick Cologne from Friday the 13th: Part VI: Jason Lives appears in Shocker under his mother's maiden name Pastori, as revealed in Friday the 13th: The Game.
Child's Play #1 features an out-of-continuity page with Chucky standing triumphantly amidst various slasher killer masks and weapons. Jason, Leatherface, Michael and Freddy are all represented, as well as a facehugger from the Alien series. Child's Play #2 references a Dream Killer who has plagued Springwood, Ohio for years.
In Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings, the pages with which Pumpkinhead is summoned with are from the Necronomicon, with the same design seen in the Evil Dead franchise. In Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes, a ton of Lament Configurations can be seen on Dr. Fraser's desk.
Jason vs Leatherface is a crossover between Friday the 13th and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It is awful continuity-wize because it tries to be a prequel to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre but a sequel to Friday the 13th: Part VI: Jason Lives, which can't work in both continuities, but I guess you can assume the Illuminati gave Leatherface a new family with the same name and identity as some of his dead family members, and Jason somehow ended up back at the bottom of Camp Crystal Lake offscreen. However, I think it's clearly just made for fun and probably not intended to be canon.
Bride of Chucky starts with a scene in an evidence locker, showing various other collected evidence from other slasher killers. Jason's mask, Freddy's glove, Leatherface's chainsaw and Michael's mask appears. Michael's mask helps prove that Halloween 4-6 is the canonical version of events for this universe, since it was left on the ground in Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers.
Jason Goes to Hell featured the Necronomicon from the Evil Dead series. The director came up with the idea while talking with Sam Raimi. "She [Pamela Voorhees] makes a deal with the devil by reading from the Necronomicon to bring back her son. This is why Jason isn’t Jason. He’s Jason plus The Evil Dead, and now I can believe that he can go from a little boy that lives in a lake, to a full grown man in a couple of months, to Zombie Jason, to never being able to kill this guy. That, to me, is way more interesting as a mashup, and Raimi loved it! It’s not like I could tell New Line my plan to include The Evil Dead, because they don’t own The Evil Dead. So it had to be an Easter egg, and I did focus on it…there’s a whole scene that includes the book, and I hoped people would get it and could figure out that’s what I’m up to. So yes, in my opinion, Jason Voorhees is a Deadite. He’s one of The Evil Dead. It absolutely is canon.” Jason is also killed by the Voorhees (Kandarian) dagger. Canonically, this would be a separate copy of the Necronomicon, like the one seen in Evil Dead (2013).
Freddy's glove grabs Jason's mask at the end of Jason Goes to Hell, teasing the future Freddy vs Jason film. Freddy vs Jason is a crossover between Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street.
The comic book A Nightmare on Elm Street: Special features a newspaper with the headlines "Leatherface Returns".
Parker O'Neil from Frozen appears in Hatchet 2 talking to news cameras about her lawsuit and settlement against the ski mountain from the film. Jason Voorhees and Leslie Vernon are referenced in the film as other existing killers.
According to Caroline Williams, her character in Hatchet III, Amanda Fowler, is a continuation of her other character, Vanita 'Stretch' Brock, from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Part 2. This proves that this universe follows the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre timeline.
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon is set in this universe, referencing the characters and showing the towns from the Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street and Halloween series. Chucky is also referenced. Michael Myers was involved with at least 4 different incidents, further solidifying that this follows the Halloween 4-6 timeline.
The Lament Configuration appears in Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon. Based on every other reference being counted as each series being canonical, I can only assume that the intent was to imply that Hellraiser actually happened within the universe of this movie even though it's a small easter egg. The Bride of Chucky contains a reference to Pinhead, where Chucky thinks a man with pins covering his head looks familiar. There was also plans to have Pinhead in Freddy vs Jason at one point, and there was to be a Hellraiser and Halloween crossover at another time.
Eugene in Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon was intended to be Billy from Black Christmas. David J. Stieve stated “I can confirm that Eugene has always been Billy in my mind. Scott (Wilson) would be the right age for him, and it always fit for me that Eugene would have that “old school” nostalgia and slight professional jealousy that even though he was a pioneer in the business of fear, he never achieved the fame or notoriety of his successors (Michael, Jason, etc).” This connects Black Christmas into the universe.
Soon after this, Scott Glosserman confirmed that the events in The Toolbox Murders were another job by "Eugene". It appears that Kent Kingsley is Eugene's real name, and he became Billy after the events of the movie. Billy and Kent look very similar to one another so they can easily be made into the same character. Kent is supposedly killed off-screen, but he must have survived his wounds, perhaps even having had brain damage that regressed him into his maniacal state.
The comic book Freddy vs Jason vs Ash is a crossover between the Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Evil Dead franchises, and a sequel to Freddy vs Jason based on the original script that pits them against Ash Williams from the Evil Dead franchise. It definitely takes place on Earth-818793, part of the Marvel Multiverse and designation of the Army of Darkness comics along with the rest of the Dynamite Comics Universe. It is not part of the universe of the Evil Dead films.
In Friday the 13th: The Game, the fifth Tommy tape mentions that Tommy got kicked out of four programs. One in Westin Hills (A Nightmare on Elm Street), another in Smith's Grove (Halloween), Glen Echo (Behind the Mask) and New Orleans (Hatchet), with Tommy claiming to hear a man crying for his father in the nearby swamp every night while he was in New Orleans Psychiatric, a reference to Victor Crowley.
Possible Inclusions
Sharknado Universe
Vanita 'Stretch' Brock appears in Sharknado: The 4th Awakens. Because of her death in Hatchet III, and the apocalyptic ending, it can assumed that this is an alternate version of Stretch, and the Slasherverse is created at the end of The Last Sharknado: It's About Time. Z-Nation is set in the Sharknadoverse, and is about the zombie apocalypse. If this were to fit within the Slasherverse, I assume Z-Nation is set in the new timeline and the near future and leads into the apocalyptic ending seen in Ash vs Evil Dead and perhaps the Army of Darkness: Director's Cut. Due to the parody nature of the Sharknadoverse and how convoluted it is, I'm not including it, but it can be considered an alternate timeline branching from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Part 2.
Darkman
Darkman vs Army of Darkness is a crossover between Evil Dead and Darkman, and is set after the events of Darkman III: Die, Darkman, Die. Arguably it could be canon, but I feel more comfortable placing it in a standalone Darkman continuity due to the nature of Evil Dead comics being standalone.
Re-Animator
The Army of Darkness versus Reanimator: Necronomicon Rising is a crossover between the Evil Dead and Re-Animator film series. It's confusing in when it is set in the Re-Animator timeline but most likely between Re-Animator and Bride of Re-Animator. Arguably it could be canon, but I feel more comfortable placing it in a standalone Re-Animator continuity due to the nature of Evil Dead comics being standalone.
Bubba Ho-Tep
Army of Darkness/Bubba Ho-Tep is a crossover between the Evil Dead film series and Bubba Ho-Tep. It is a sequel to both Bubba Ho-Tep and the Bubba Ho-Tep and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers comic book. Arguably it could be canon, but I feel more comfortable placing it in a standalone Bubba Ho-Tep continuity due to the nature of Evil Dead comics being standalone.
Alternate Continuity
The Dynamite Comics Universe (Earth-818793) features near identical versions of Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, Charles Lee Ray and Victor Crowley. They are, however, different to their cinematic counterparts.
For example, the Earth-818793 version of Jason Goes to Hell took place 10 years earlier than it does in the cinematic timeline, and Freddy and Jason's comic book stories never occurred in that reality. Hatchet/Slash was said to be set between Hatchet II and Hatchet III, though it couldn't be because Hatchet III picks up immediately after Hatchet II, and it couldn't be set between Hatchet III and Victor Crowley. Logically it would be set prior to the first film, but official word places it after Hatchet II.
Franchise List
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Black Christmas
The Toolbox Murders
Halloween
Friday the 13th
Evil Dead
Creepshow
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Hellraiser
Pumpkinhead
Child's Play
Shocker
Behind the Mask
Hatchet
Frozen
Timeline
1957 - Friday the 13th: The Game: Pamela Tapes 1-20
1967 - The Toolbox Murders
1973 - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
1974 - Black Christmas
1978 - Within the Woods
1978 - Halloween
1978 - Halloween II
1979 - Friday the 13th
1979 - Friday the 13th: Pamala's Tale #1-2
1979 - KISS/Army of Darkness #1-5
1981 - A Nightmare on Elm Street
1982 - Creepshow
1982 - Stephen King's Creepshow
1982 - Evil Dead: The Game: Knowby Recording 1-8
1982 - The Evil Dead
1982 - Evil Dead: The Game: Knowby Recording 9
1982 - Evil Dead 2
1982 - Evil Dead: The Game: Knowby Recording 10
1982 - Army of Darkness: Director's Cut
1982 - Army of Darkness (Ending)
1984 - Friday the 13th: Part 2
1984 - Friday the 13th: Part III
1984 - Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
1984 - Friday the 13th: The Game: Tapes 1-3
1985 - Friday the 13th: The Game: Tapes 4
1985 - Adam Green's Hatchet #1-3
1986 - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Part 2
1986 - A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
1987 - A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987 - Creepshow 2
1987 - Hellraiser
1987 - Hellbound: Hellraiser II
1988 - A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
1988 - Pumpkinhead
1988 - Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
1988 - Child's Play
1989 - A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
1989 - Friday the 13th: The Game: Tapes 5
1989 - Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
1989 - Friday the 13th: The Game: Tapes 6-8
1989 - Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
1990 - Freddy Krueger's A Nightmare on Elm Street #1-2
1990 - Nightmares on Elm Street #1-2
1990 - Friday the 13th: The Game: Tapes 9
1990 - Friday the 13th: Part VI: Jason Lives
1990 - Friday the 13th: The Game: Tapes 10-11
1990 - Child's Play 2
1990 - Child's Play #1-5
1991 - Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
1992 - Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
1993 - Shocker
1993 - Friday the 13th: The Game: Tapes 12
1993 - Pumpkinhead: The Rites of Exorcism #1-2
1993 - Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings
1995 - Nightmares on Elm Street #3-6
1995 - Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers
1996 - Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
1997 - Friday the 13th: Part VII: The New Blood
1998 - Friday the 13th: Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
1998 - Friday the 13th: The Game: Tapes 13
1998 - Child's Play 3
1998 - The Bride of Chucky
1999 - Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
1999 - A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Beginning #1-2
1999 - Hellraiser: Inferno
1999 - Halloween #1
1999 - Halloween II: The Blackest Eyes
2001 - Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
2001 - Halloween III: The Devil's Eyes
2002 - Hellraiser: Hellseeker
2003 - Freddy vs. Jason
2003 - Friday the 13th: Special
2004 - Seed of Chucky
2005 - Hellraiser: Deader
2005 - Hellraiser: Hellworld
2005 - Friday the 13th: Bloodbath #1-3
2005 - Friday the 13th: Fearbook
2005 - A Nightmare on Elm Street: Special
2005 - A Nightmare on Elm Street: Paranoid #1-3
2006 - Creepshow 3
2006 - A Nightmare on Elm Street: Fearbook
2006 - Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes
2006 - Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
2007 - Adam Green's Hatchet: Vengeance #1-3
2007 - Frozen
2007 - Hatchet
2007 - Adam Green's Hatchet #0
2007 - Hatchet II
2007 - Hatchet III
2007 - Pumpkinhead 4: Blood Feud
2007 - A Nightmare on Elm Street #1-8
2007 - Friday the 13th #1-6
2007 - Friday the 13th: How I Spent My Summer Vacation #1-2
2007 - New Line Cinema's Tales of Horror, "Copycat"
2008 - Friday the 13th: Bad Land #1-2
2008 - Friday the 13th: Abuser and the Abused
2009 - Chucky #1-4
2009 - Chucky (Vol. 2) #1
2009 - Creepshow Raw 1x01, "Insomnia"
2010 - Evil Dead: Extended Cut
2011 - Hellraiser: Revelations
2012 - Ash vs Evil Dead 1x01, "El Jefe"
2012 - Ash vs Evil Dead 1x02, "Bait"
2012 - Ash vs Evil Dead 1x03, "Books from Beyond"
2012 - Ash vs Evil Dead 1x04, "Brujo"
2012 - Ash vs Evil Dead 1x05, "The Host"
2012 - Ash vs Evil Dead 1x06, "The Killer of Killers"
2012 - Ash vs Evil Dead 1x07, "Fire in the Hole"
2012 - Ash vs Evil Dead 1x08, "Ashes to Ashes"
2012 - Ash vs Evil Dead 1x09, "Bound in Flesh"
2012 - Ash vs Evil Dead 1x10, "The Dark One"
2013 - Curse of Chucky
2013 - Ash vs Evil Dead 2x01, "Home"
2013 - Ash vs Evil Dead 2x02, "The Morgue"
2013 - Ash vs Evil Dead 2x03, "Last Call"
2013 - Ash vs Evil Dead 2x04, "DUI"
2013 - Ash vs Evil Dead 2x05, "Confinement"
2013 - Ash vs Evil Dead 2x06, "Trapped Inside"
2013 - Ash vs Evil Dead 2x07, "Delusion"
2013 - Ash vs Evil Dead 2x08, "Ashy Slashy"
2013 - Ash vs Evil Dead 2x09, "Home Again"
2013 - Ash vs Evil Dead 2x10, "Second Coming"
2016 - Ash vs Evil Dead 3x01, "Family"
2016 - Ash vs Evil Dead 3x02, "Booth Three"
2016 - Ash vs Evil Dead 3x03, "Apparently Dead"
2016 - Ash vs Evil Dead 3x04, "Unfinished Business"
2016 - Ash vs Evil Dead 3x05, "Baby Proof"
2016 - Ash vs Evil Dead 3x06, "Tales from the Rift"
2016 - Ash vs Evil Dead 3x07, "Twist and Shout"
2016 - Ash vs Evil Dead 3x08, "Rifting Apart"
2016 - Ash vs Evil Dead 3x09, "Judgement Day"
2016 - Ash vs Evil Dead 3x10, "The Mettle of Man
2017 - Victor Crowley
2017 - Cult of Chucky
2018 - Hellraiser: Judgment
2018 - Pumpkinhead #1-6
2019 - Victor Crowley's Hatchet: Halloween Tales
2019 - Creepshow 1x01, "Gray Matter/The House of the Head"
2019 - Creepshow 1x02, "Bad Wolf Down/The Finger"
2019 - Creepshow 1x03, "All Hallows Eve/The Man in the Suitcase"
2019 - Creepshow 1x04, "The Companion/Lydia Layne's Better Half"
2019 - Creepshow 1x05, "Night of the Paw/Times is Tough in Musky Holler"
2019 - Creepshow 1x06, "Skincrawlers/By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain"
2020 - A Creepshow Animated Special "Survivor Type/Twittering from the Circus of the Dead"
2020 - Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2020 - Victor Crowley's Hatchet: Halloween Tales II
2020 - A Creepshow Holiday Special "Shapeshifters Anonymous"
2021 - Creepshow 2x01, "Model Kid/Public Television Of The Dead"
2021 - Creepshow 2x02, "Dead and Breakfast/Pesticide"
2021 - Creepshow 2x03, "The Right Snuff/Sibling Rivalry"
2021 - Creepshow 2x04, "Pipe Screams/Within the Walls of Madness"
2021 - Creepshow 2x05, "Night of the Living Late Show"
2021 - Creepshow 3x01, "Mums/Queen Bee"
2021 - Creepshow 3x02, "Skeletons in the Closet/Familiar"
2021 - Creepshow 3x03, "The Last Tsuburaya/Okay, I'll Bite"
2021 - Creepshow 3x04, "Stranger Sings/Meter Reader"
2021 - Creepshow 3x05, "Time Out/The Things in Oakwood's Past"
2021 - Creepshow 3x06, "Drug Traffic/A Dead Girl Named Sue"
2021 - Chucky 1x01, "Death by Misadventure"
2021 - Chucky 1x02, "Give Me Something Good to Eat"
2021 - Chucky 1x03, "I Like to Be Hugged"
2021 - Chucky 1x04, "Just Let Go"
2021 - Chucky 1x05, "Little Little Lies"
2021 - Chucky 1x06, "Cape Queer"
2021 - Chucky 1x07, "Twice the Grieving, Double the Loss"
2021 - Chucky 1x08, "An Affair to Dismember"
2021 - Adam Green's Hatchet: Unstoppable Horror
2021 - Victor Crowley's Hatchet: Halloween Tales III
2022 - Chucky 2x01, "Halloween II"
2022 - Chucky 2x02, "The Sinners Are Much More Fun"
2022 - Chucky 2x03, "Hail, Mary!"
2022 - Chucky 2x04, "Death On Denial"
2022 - Chucky 2x05, "Doll on Doll"
2022 - Chucky 2x06, "He is Risen Indeed"
2022 - Chucky 2x07, "Goin' To The Chapel"
2022 - Chucky 2x08, "Chucky Actually"
2022 - Hellraiser
2022 - Creepshow #1-3
2023 - Wait for It
2023 - Evil Dead Rise
2127 - Hellraiser IV: Bloodline
2455 - Jason X
2455 - Jason X: Special
2455 - Friday the 13th: Jason vs Jason X #1-2
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