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The following is the timeline of the fictional universe in which the events of the Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street movies take place. Image File history File links Emblem-important. ... A fictional universe is an imaginary world that serves as the setting or backdrop for one or (more commonly) multiple works of fiction or translatable non-fiction. ... Friday the 13th is a 1980 independent slasher film directed by Sean S. Cunningham and written by Victor Miller. ... A Nightmare on Elm Street is an American horror film directed by Wes Craven about several teenagers being terrorized in their nightmares by a mysterious man named Freddy Krueger in the fictional Midwest town of Springwood, Ohio. ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as...


The two originally-separate film series were joined in the long-awaited crossover film Freddy vs. Jason, in which Freddy Krueger, the main killer of the Nightmare films, faced off with Jason Voorhees, the main killer of the Friday films. It has been suggested that Gaming crossovers be merged into this article or section. ... Freddy vs. ... This article is about the fictional character. ... Jason Voorhees is a fictional character from the Friday the 13th series of slasher films. ...

Contents

1900s

  • 1907
    • Amanda Krueger is born. [1]

1930s

  • 1930
    • Pamela Voorhees is born. [2]

1940s

  • Circa 1940-1942
    • Amanda Krueger, who became a nun (her name in Christ: “Sister Mary Helena”), works at Our Lady of Sorrows (Westin Hills), an institution for the mentally disturbed. The worst of the criminally insane patients are kept in a wing called “The Tower”. During a Christmas holiday, Amanda Krueger is accidentally locked in with the one hundred patients confined there. For days she is raped numerous times. Afterward, she is found alive, badly beaten and “with child”.[3]
    • Months later, after a breech birth, Fredrick Charles Krueger is born and given up for adoption.[4]
  • 1945
    • The then-around-15-years-of-age Pamela is impregnated by Elias Voorhees.[citation needed]
  • Circa 1948-1950
    • Freddy Krueger begins to exhibit sociopathic behavior, including killing small animals.[6]

For other uses, see Nun (disambiguation). ... Christmas is an annual holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus. ... Breech, by W.Smellie, 1792 A breech birth (also known as breech presentation) refers to the position of the baby in the uterus such that it will be delivered buttocks first as opposed to the normal head first position. ... Elias voorhees is jason voorheess father not much is known about him. ... Jason Voorhees is a fictional character from the Friday the 13th series of slasher films. ... Antisocial personality disorder (APD) is a personality disorder which is often characterised by antisocial and impulsive behaviour. ...

1950s

  • Circa 1954
    • Diana Voorhees is born to Elias and an unknown woman (who is not Pamela).[citation needed]
  • Circa 1955-1960
    • After proclaiming to have learned the “secret of pain”, Fred Krueger (now a teenager) kills his alcoholic and abusive adoptive father: Mr. Underwood.[7]
    • Some years later, Fred marries a woman named Loretta.[8]
  • 1957
    • Summertime - Jason Voorhees purportedly drowns in Crystal Lake when the counselors are having sex. No body is found.[9]
  • 1958
    • June 13 - Two Camp Crystal Lake counselors are mysteriously murdered.[10]
  • Circa 1959-1961
    • Attempts to reopen Camp Crystal Lake after the murders are halted by arson and "bad water" (possibly poisoning).[11]

Diana Voorhees, her name being changed to Diana Kimble, is a waitress and sister to Jason Voorhees, as seen in Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday. ... The Skyline Parkway Motel in Afton, Virginia after an arson fire on July 9, 2004. ... The skull and crossbones symbol (Jolly Roger) traditionally used to label a poisonous substance. ...

1960s

  • 1961
    • Kathryn Krueger is born.[12]
  • Circa 1961-1966
    • Freddy kidnaps and murders 20 neighborhood children of Springwood. The newspapers dub the mysterious killer "The Springwood Slasher". Freddy worked at the local power plant and used its boiler room as a lair to take his victims. A second lair was also kept in the basement of the Krueger residence. When Loretta finds this basement lair, Freddy strangles her to death in front of young Kathryn.[13]
  • 1966
    • Freddy is arrested for committing the murders of the neighborhood children. Kathryn Krueger is put into foster care, then later adoption.[14]
  • 1968
    • Freddy is released on a legal technicality. As the judge's and the investigator's pockets grew fat from the ongoing trial, it came to light that someone forgot to sign a search warrant in the right place, and all of the evidence against Fred Krueger was inadmissible as evidence. The parents of Springwood take justice into their own hands by burning Freddy alive in his boiler room with Molotov cocktails. Amanda Krueger, driven insane after the trial, hangs herself, but her body is not found.[15]
  • 1979
    • June 13 - The events of the original Friday the 13th film take place.
    • August - Alice is killed by Jason in her home when he stabs her in the temple with an ice pick.[16]

-1... This article is about the concept of justice. ... Molotov cocktail is the generic name for a variety of crude incendiary weapons. ...

1980s

  • Circa 1985
    • Attempting to disassociate itself from the Voorhees family, Crystal Lake changes its name to Forest Green.
  • 1986
    • The events of A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge take place.
  • 1987
    • Summer - The events of Friday the 13th: A New Beginning take place.
    • The events of A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors take place.
  • 1988
    • May 12-13 - The events of Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives take place.
    • The events of A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master take place.
  • 1989
    • Summer - The events of A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child take place.
    • October 13 - The prologue of Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood takes place.
  • Circa 1989-1999
    • Over the course of ten years, the adults of Springwood were kept in mass psychosis after nearly every child was murdered in that town.

A Nightmare on Elm Street is an American horror film directed by Wes Craven about several teenagers being terrorized in their nightmares by a mysterious man named Freddy Krueger in the fictional Midwest town of Springwood, Ohio. ... Friday the 13th Part 3: 3D is the second sequel to Friday the 13th. ... Friday the 13th Part 2 is a slasher film directed by Steve Miner, the first sequel to the Friday the 13th (1980) movie. ... Friday the 13th Part 3: 3D is the second sequel to Friday the 13th. ...

1990s

  • 1990
    • Alice Johnson and her son, Jacob, move away from Springwood, Ohio a year after the events of The Dream Child took place. Her whereabouts are now unknown.[citation needed]
  • 1993
    • August 12-13 - Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood takes place.
  • 1994
    • May 12-13 - The events of Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan take place.
  • 1999
    • January 13 - Stephanie Kimble, daughter of Jessica Kimble and Steven Freeman, is born.
    • The events of Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare take place.
    • After Freddy's death, the town of Springwood destroys all evidence of the Krueger family ever having existed, including blacking out news articles and obituaries of Freddy's victims. Any children claiming to have seen Freddy in their dreams are quietly sent to Westin Hills and put on Hypnocil, an experimental dream suppressant drug.[17]
    • Jason Voorhees's body is blown apart by the FBI in an ambush. During the autopsy, the coroner eats Jason's heart and becomes possessed by his spirit.[18]
    • The other events of Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday take place.

A coroner is either the presiding officer of a special court, a medical officer, or an officer of law responsible for investigating deaths, particularly those happening under unusual circumstances. ...

2000s

  • 2008
    • Jason Voorhees is captured for the 2nd time and sentenced to death.[20] Though the government is unsure how to execute him, the electric chair, the gas chamber, a firing squad, and hanging are all tried. The government decides to put Jason into a cryonic freeze at The Crystal Lake Research Facility (which was specifically built to house and study Jason). Jason nearly escapes after killing several guards, but is frozen by Rowan, the project's leader, who is also trapped in the freezing chamber.

Freddy vs. ... The electric chair is an execution method in which the person being put to death is strapped to a chair and electrocuted through electrodes placed on the body. ... For other uses, see Gas chamber (disambiguation). ... The Third of May by Francisco Goya Execution by firing squad is a method of capital punishment, particularly common in times of war. ... Hanging is the suspension of a person by a ligature, usually a cord wrapped around the neck, causing death. ... Technicians prepare a patient for cryopreservation. ...

2450s

  • 2455
    • August 13 - The events of Jason X take place.

Jason X is a 2002 science fiction and slasher film, the tenth in the Friday the 13th film series, starring Kane Hodder as the mass murderer Jason Voorhees. ...

References

  1. ^ A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
  2. ^ Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
  3. ^ A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors & Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare: Freddy’s birth date has not been officially revealed, though it was referenced to be in the 1940’s. During flashbacks in Freddy’s Dead, Freddy looks to be in his mid to late 20’s, which would imply his birth date to be sometime in the early 40’s. Various movie tie-ins have listed his birth date in the late 1930’s, 1946, & 1947. Most fans estimate it to be 1942, due to Freddy would be too young given the physical evidence and a 1946/47 birth date.
  4. ^ A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child: It’s not clear if Freddy was premature.
  5. ^ Jason vs. Leatherface #1 ("Goin' South"): Not actually mentioned in story, revealed in "Halloween, Chainsaw, Hockey" Author's Notes feature.
  6. ^ Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare: Freddy is shown to still be a child during these events.
  7. ^ Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare: It’s unclear as to when Freddy was adopted, though the scene implies a long history of abuse by Mr. Underwood.
  8. ^ Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
  9. ^ Friday the 13th film
  10. ^ Shown in the prologue of the first Friday the 13th film
  11. ^ Friday the 13th: Enos the trucker mentions these events as he describes Camp Crystal Lake's history at the beginning of the movie.
  12. ^ Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare: Adoption Decree notes Kathryn’s age of 7.
  13. ^ A Nightmare on Elm Street, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, & Freddy vs. Jason
  14. ^ Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
  15. ^ A Nightmare on Elm Street, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, & A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
  16. ^ This is shown in the prologue of Friday the 13th Part 2
  17. ^ Freddy vs. Jason
  18. ^ Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
  19. ^ Depending on which "official" source - [1] or [2] - is consulted.
  20. ^ Prologue of Jason X

Friday the 13th is a 1980 independent slasher film directed by Sean S. Cunningham and written by Victor Miller. ... Friday the 13th is a 1980 independent slasher film directed by Sean S. Cunningham and written by Victor Miller. ... Friday the 13th is a 1980 independent slasher film directed by Sean S. Cunningham and written by Victor Miller. ... A Nightmare on Elm Street is an American horror film directed by Wes Craven about several teenagers being terrorized in their nightmares by a mysterious man named Freddy Krueger in the fictional Midwest town of Springwood, Ohio. ... Freddy vs. ... A Nightmare on Elm Street is an American horror film directed by Wes Craven about several teenagers being terrorized in their nightmares by a mysterious man named Freddy Krueger in the fictional Midwest town of Springwood, Ohio. ... Friday the 13th Part 2 is a slasher film directed by Steve Miner, the first sequel to the Friday the 13th (1980) movie. ... Freddy vs. ... Jason X is a 2002 science fiction and slasher film, the tenth in the Friday the 13th film series, starring Kane Hodder as the mass murderer Jason Voorhees. ...

Timeline reference links

v • d • e
The Nightmare on Elm Street series
Films A Nightmare on Elm Street • A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge • A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors • A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master • A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child • Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare • Wes Craven's New Nightmare • Freddy vs. Jason
Major characters Freddy Krueger • Nancy Thompson • Kristen Parker • Alice Johnson
Minor characters Lori Campbell • Joey Crusel • Rick Johnson • Roland Kincaid • Amanda Krueger • Donald Thompson
People Patricia Arquette • Wes Craven • Robert Englund • Tuesday Knight • Heather Langenkamp • John Saxon • Lisa Wilcox
Related topics Comic Books • Freddy's Nightmares (TV series) • Hypnocil • Timeline • Video games
v • d • e
The Friday the 13th series
Films Friday the 13th • Part 2 • Part 3 • The Final Chapter • A New Beginning • Part VI: Jason Lives • Part VII: The New Blood • Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan • Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday • Jason X • Freddy vs. Jason
Characters Jason Voorhees • Pamela Voorhees • Tommy Jarvis • Lori Campbell • Character list
Related topics Comic books • Timeline • Video game

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