This is a timeline for both the Nightmare on elm street and Friday the 13th franchises, it contains everything produced by both Paramount Pictures and Warner Media. This includes all the films in both franchises, as well as the Wildstorm comics, and the tv series Freddy's Nightmares.
1900s[]
1907[]
Amanda Krueger is born.
1930s[]
1930[]
Pamela Voorhees is born
1940s[]
1940[]
December: While working as a nun at a men's asylum for the criminally insane, Amanda Krueger is accidentally locked in over the holidays by her coworkers. She is raped by one hundred mentally insane inmates.
1941[]
September: Amanda gives birth to Frederick Charles Krueger.
Freddy is later placed with an abusive alcoholic named Mr. Underwood. Underwood abuses the boy, both physically and verbally, in his drunken stupors.
1946[]
Thursday, June 13: Pamela Voorhees gives birth to Jason Voorhees, who is born with Hydrocephalus and mental disabilities.
1950s[]
1953[]
While at school Freddy is teased by his classmates, who nickname him the "son of a hundred maniacs". At one point, while being teased, Freddy kills the class hamster.
1957[]
Pamela, unable to find a baby-sitter, decides to take her 11 year old son, Jason, with her to work at Camp Crystal Lake. At the camp, Jason is tormented by the other children because of his disabilities. The kids gang up and tease Jason, eventually pushing him into the lake where he drowns. The counselors, who were supposed to be looking after the children, are too busy talking and making love to notice the boy drowning. This causes Pamela to experience a mental break-down.
1958[]
Friday, June 13: Pamela returns to the camp and kills the two counselors who were supposed to be looking after Jason the day he drowned. The murder of the two counselors goes unsolved, resulting in the camp being closed for several years.
During his teenage years, Freddy would display masochist tendencies while cutting himself with a razor. He would later use the same razor to murder Mr. Underwood, out of revenge for all the years of abuse.
1960s[]
1961[]
Kathryn Krueger is born to Freddy Krueger and his wife Loretta Krueger.
1966[]
Freddy Krueger murders his wife, in front of his daughter, after Loretta finds out he is a serial killer. Sometime after, Freddy is arrested for the murders of 20 children. His daughter is taken away from him and given the new name Maggie Burroughs, after being adopted by the Burroughs family. Her records are then sealed and she is moved away from Springwood, Ohio.
1968[]
During Freddy's trial, the judge discovers that the search warrant to obtain evidence was not signed correctly; leaving all evidence to be deemed inadmissible and Krueger subsequently released. Later that night, the parents of Elm Street form an angry mob and track Freddy to his boiler room lair. The mob begins to encircle the lair, pouring gasoline all around. Then someone strikes a match and they all stand, watching the place burn. Meanwhile, inside the lair, Freddy is approached by three demons who offer him the power to invade the dreams of children. In the dreams, Freddy could kill them, which in turn would cause the children to die in real life. Freddy accepts their deal as the flames rise all around, consuming him and burning him to death.
1970s[]
1979[]
Steve Christy attempts to reopen Camp Crystal Lake.
Friday, June[?] 13: Pamela, upon learning about the Camp's reopening, decides the best way to keep it closed is to kill Steve Christy and anyone else associated with the camp. She kills Steve and six of his newly hired counselors, before being decapitated by the lone surviving counselor, Alice Hardy. Jason Voorhees, having returned from the dead, witnesses his mother's death. Afterwards, he takes Pamela's head, sweater, and the machete that Alice used to kill her to build a shrine to his dead mother.
August: Alice returns to Crystal Lake to face her trauma surrounding what happened at the camp. One night, Jason Voorhees tracks down the apartment she is staying at and murders her. He later takes her body back to his shack in the woods near Camp Crystal Lake.
1980s[]
1980[]
Tina Shepard is born.
1981[]
March 9 - 16: Freddy begins invading the nightmares of the children whose parents murdered him, starting with Nancy Thompson and her friends. After killing Tina Gray first, Freddy then sets his sights on her boyfriend Rod Lane, who is arrested for Tina's murder. With Nancy and Glen Lantz being the only ones left alive, they devise a plan to capture Freddy and pull him out into the "real" world. Unfortunately, Glen falls asleep and is sucked into his bed by Krueger and killed. Later that night, Nancy manages to pull Freddy out of her dreams and sets him on fire. However, he is able to escape upstairs. Nancy follows and discovers that Krueger has killed her mother, Marge Thompson, by burning her to death. Nancy confronts Freddy and begins draining him of all his powers and destroying him. However, later he appears to trap Nancy in a dream world, where she is trapped in a red and green striped car with Tina, Glen, and Rod, driving away.
1982[]
While staying in Crystal Lake on vacation, Chris Higgins gets into a fight with her parents. She runs off into the woods, where Jason Voorhees finds her and proceeds to attack her. Some time during the struggle, Chris passes out and reawakes back home. Her parents refused to speak of the incident.
1984[]
Friday, July 13: Five years after the murder of Alice Hardy, Jason's first murder spree begins. He succeeds in killing off most of the new counselor trainees who were helping to re-open the camp, leaving only 2 survivors, Ginny Field and Paul Holt. Ginny, while running away, comes across Jason's shack out in the middle of the woods. After managing to get inside, she discovers his mother's shrine with Pamela's severed head resting on top. Ginny tricks Jason by putting on his mother's sweater and starts to talk as if she were his mother. She manages to lower Jason's guard and, with the help of Paul Holt, buries a machete deep in Jason's collar bone.
Saturday, July 14: The following morning, the police discover the killings at Packanack Lodge. Ginny is rescued and taken to the hospital to receive treatment for her injuries. Paul's fate is left unknown, though it is assumed that he survived as well. That night, Jason leaves his shack in search of some new clothes. Eventually he makes his way over to the Hockett's place, where he steals some laundry and then proceeds to murder both Harold Hockett and his wife.
Sunday, July 15: Chris Higgins and some of her friends go on a trip to Higgins Haven. Jason murders the teens until there is only Chris left. During the murders, Jason acquires a hockey mask from teenage horror fan, Shelly. After running and fighting, Chris eventually recognizes Jason as the man who terrorized her in the woods two years prior. She manages to strike him in the face with an axe, seemingly killing him.
Monday, July 16: The police find Chris in an crazed state as a result of being attacked by Jason.
Tuesday, July 17: Jason's dead body is taken away to the morgue where he wakes up. He kills the coroner and nurse, before leaving to return to the camp.
Wednesday, July 18: Jason kills a group of partying teens. Mrs. Jarvis, a widow who lives in a house near the woods with her daughter Trish and her son Tommy, also dies. With the help of his sister, Tommy Jarvis is able to kill Jason by hitting him, repeatedly, in the head with Jason's machete.
1986[]
September: Five years after his battle with Nancy, Freddy is too weak to operate in his usual fashion. Instead, he is chained to Nancy's old house, haunting the nightmares of a teenage boy named Jesse Walsh, who's family just recently moved in. Freddy begins possessing Jesse in order to kill his victims. This often transforms Jesse's body into looking more like Freddy's. After arriving to a party being hosted by love interest, Lisa Webber, Jesse is again possessed by Freddy and begins killing several of Lisa's guests. Eventually, Lisa is able to get through to Jesse, who begins fighting Freddy from the inside, weakening him. He uses Freddy's own power to set Freddy ablaze, burning him and releasing Jesse unharmed. However, Freddy returns to attack the two of them one last time.
1987[]
Following her attack at the hands of Freddy Krueger, Kristen Parker is institutionalized by her mother. When the orderly tries to sedate her, Kristen panics and tries to defend herself with a scalpel. She then meets Nancy Thompson, a new counselor at Westin Hills, who calms her down. By this time, most of the Elm Street children have been killed by Freddy, except for a few who have also been committed to Westin Hills. Kristen learns she has the power to pull people into her dreams when, while being attacked by Freddy, she calls out for Nancy and Nancy suddenly appears. After they escape from Freddy's grasp, Freddy begins killing the other kids in ways that appear to be suicide. Both Nancy and Neil Gordon, head psychologist, request that the kids be put on an experimental dream suppressor, Hypnocil, and are denied. During a group hypnosis, one of the committed teenagers is captured by Freddy and hung above a fiery pit; in "real" life the boy is trapped in a coma. Nancy and the other kids continue to fight against Freddy and continue to lose. Later it is revealed that whenever Freddy kills someone, he takes their souls in order to gain more power. Neil, after talking to Amanda Kreuger's ghost, learns that Freddy can only be stopped when his bones have been buried on hallowed ground. When Nancy's father and Neil attempt to bury Freddy's bones, Freddy takes control of his burnt skeleton and impales Nancy's father on a sharp piece of metal. After killing Nancy's father, Freddy returns to the dream world and tricks Nancy into getting close to him. He then stabs her to death, but not before she is able to turn his own glove against him, in one last ditch effort to subdue him. While this is happening, in the "real" world Neil is able to bury Freddy's bones and throw holy water and a crucifix on them, destroying Freddy once again. Holding Nancy's lifeless body in her arms, Kristen promises her friend she would dream her into a beautiful dream where she couldn't die.
1988[]
Kristen, Kincaid, and Joey, 2 other committed teens who survived, have been released from Westin Hills and are trying to get back to normal. Kristen believes Freddy Krueger will come back. Kincaid and Joey are upset that she has reverted to her old ways. To keep her calm, they take her to Freddy's boiler and show her that it is cold. The next day, Kristen meets up with her boyfriend, martial arts enthusiast Rick Johnson, his sister Alice and their friends. Kincaid and Joey tell to Kristen to let it go and if she keeps going at it she might accidentally bring Krueger back. That night, Kristen stays awake to keep herself from dreaming, but Kincaid falls asleep. He awakens in a junkyard, where Freddy has been accidentally resurrected. Kincaid puts up a good fight against Freddy, but Freddy overpowers him. Joey watches TV in his room. He begins to fall asleep and discovers a model from one of his posters swimming in his waterbed. Freddy jumps out of the waterbed and attempts to drown Joey. Joey screams for help him but Freddy stabs and kills him. At school the next day, Kristen panics when she notices that Joey and Kincaid are missing and accidentally knocks herself out as Rick attempts to calm her. Freddy tries to attack Kristen as the school nurse wakes her up. Kristen feels guilty about staying awake when she learns that Kincaid and Joey were found dead. She later tells Rick, Alice, and Alice's crush Dan Jordan about Freddy. At dinner, Kristen realizes that her mother has put sleeping pills in her food, but falls asleep as she tries to run out of the dining room. Kristen starts to dream; Freddy overcomes her attempts to repel him and forces her back to his home. Since Kristen is the last of the Elm Street children still alive, Freddy goads Kristen into summoning on one of her friends into the dream. She calls Alice into her dream, and Freddy throws Kristen into his boiler but before she dies, Kristen gives Alice her dream power. Alice wakes up with the sense that something is wrong and takes Rick to Kristen's house. When they get there, they see that Kristen's bedroom is on fire with her in it. Later, Alice falls asleep during class and inadvertently brings her friend into her dream and the girl dies. Rick starts to believe Alice, but the following day, he has a dream where an invisible Freddy attacks him in a martial arts dojo. Rick fights him, and manages to knock his knife glove off. However, the glove levitates and stabs him, killing him. With each death, Alice gains the abilities and personalities of her dead friends. She makes plans to fight and kill Freddy, but when her father keeps her in, Alice falls asleep. Through Alice, Freddy stalks and kills more teenagers. Alice tries to ram Freddy in her dream, but collides with a tree in "reality", injuring Dan. As Dan is rushed into surgery, Alice returns home and readies herself to face Freddy. In a dream, Alice rescues Dan, and the two find themselves in an old church. Dan gets injured in the dream which prompts his surgeons to wake him up. Alice now has to face Freddy alone. Freddy has the upper hand due to his experience, but she uses her dream powers against him. When he is about to win, Alice remembers a nursery rhyme called "The Dream Master". She recites it and forces Freddy to face his own reflection which causes the souls within him to revolt. The strain tears Freddy apart. Alice's friends' souls are released and leave Freddy as a hollow husk. Months later, Dan and Alice are on a date when Dan tosses a coin into a fountain. For a moment, Alice sees Freddy's reflection in the water, but she ignores it.
1989[]
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
June: After graduating from Springwood High Alice and Dan planned to take off to Europe for the summer. unfortunately for them Freddy has resurrected himself once again this time being reborn through the spirit of his own mother, and is now manipulating Alice's own unborn baby's power to pull more victims into his dream world. one by one Freddy kills Alice's friends starting with her boyfriend Dan, Freddy then starts feeding Alice's baby Jacob the souls of her friends in an effort to turn Jacob into pure evil so he can live forever through him, Realizing this, Alice tries to find Freddy's mother to take him back to hell. Later on Alice calls upon her friend Yvonne, who survived one of Freddy's previous attacks, to release Amanda's soul, upon being released she enters the dream world and tells Jacob he has to use his power on Freddy if he wants to save his mother. Jacob proceeds to shot the souls back into Freddy, which as a result turns Freddy back into an infant, as is Jacob and are absorbed by Amanda and Alice, respectively. Amanda walks through a door into a light as Freddy attempts to claw his way out, and the church doors close. They are finally at peace from their nightmares.
- Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
October: Tommy Jarvis now seventeen years old, was no longer a legal ward of the state, and so was sent to The Pinehurst Halfway House. That very same day, a fellow patient by the name of Victor J. Faden killed a another patient with an axe. as it turns out the Paramedic on the scene was the dead boy's father Roy Burns, horrified by the sight of his son's dead body he decided to take revenge on the residents of the halfway house. That night, Roy disguised himself as Jason Voorhees and killed two greasers.
Friday, October 13: Roy went on a huge killing spree murdering residents of the Halfway House and the nearby locals. Roy was eventually stopped by Pam Roberts, Reggie the reckless and Tommy, Tommy ended up killing Roy to save his friends. While at the hospital Tommy woke up and donned Roy Burns's mask Even further unsettled, Tommy attacks Pam, but thankfully he's stopped before he can hurt her.
1990s[]
1990[]
- Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
Thursday, July 12: upon being released back into the world Tommy Jarvis along with a friend return to Crystal Lake now called Forest Green to dig up and cremate Jason's corpse to put the past to rest. Upon seeing Jason's body Tommy flips out and out of rage repeatedly stabs Jason's body. However, things go awry when a huge lightning bolt strikes the fence post embedded in Jason and reanimates him, back to being alive again Jason is even more unstoppable then he was before. Jason proceeds to kill Tommy's friend Hawes, afterwards Tommy escapes the graveyard to warn people that Jason is alive again, while Jason dons his old hockey mask that Tommy had brought to the graveyard to burn along with Jason, Jason then sets out for Camp Forest Green. Tommy makes it to the police station and is locked up by Sheriff Michael Garris who deems him crazy. On route to the camp, Jason kills the head counselors.
Friday, July 13: Jason goes on a killing spree at Camp Forest Green, killing most of the people with the exception Tommy, Sheriff Garris's daughter Megan, and the kids. Tommy and Megan eventually manage to chain Jason to a large rock at the bottom of Lake Forest Green trapping him there.
October 13, One night by the lake young Tina Shepard overheard her parents arguing, she then hread her father hit her mother which made Tina run down the dock and into a small boat. her father came out onto the upper dock in an attempt to apologize and convince Tina to return to the house. A furious then Tina wished her father was dead, suddenly a strange power within her manifested which caused the dock to collapse, causing her father to fall in, get knocked out and drown to death because of it.
Sometime after the Forest Green murders, officials decide to change the area name back to Crystal Lake. All Camp Crystal Lake signs are restored.
1993[]
At age thirteen, Rennie Wickham nearly drowned at Crystal Lake when her uncle Charles McCulloch pushed her into the lake trying to teach her how to swim, while underwater she saw Jason for the first time, and due to her latent empathetic abilities saw him as a child, Rennie barely escaped Jason's grasp, and was left haunted by her encounter with him rendering her aqua-phobic in the process.
1997[]
- Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
Friday, June 13th: Tina Shepard, now a teenager, returns to Crystal Lake with her mother and her therapist, Doctor Crews. Tina quickly becomes acquainted with a guy named Nick and his friends staying at the house next door, planning a birthday party for their friend Michael. That night, Tina tries to resurrect her father with her powers but instead sets Jason Voorhees free. Tina then passes out as a result and is ignored by Jason, He then proceeds to kill Michael, his girlfriend and a couple camping out in the woods.
The next day With the exception of Tina and Nick Jason kills everyone staying on the lake. Tina then uses her telekinesis to fight Jason head on, destroying the two houses in the process doing so. Finally, Tina succeeds in reanimating her father's corpse to chain Jason back up at the bottom of the lake once more.
The following day The police rescue Tina and Nick, Michael's cousin. Jason's original hockey mask is found, having been broken in half during his fight with Tina.
1998[]
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
May: On the night before the senior class of Lakeview High School is supposed to depart for Manhattan, two students, Jim Miller and Suzi Donaldson arrive at Crystal Lake. The anchor to their boat accidentally snags on an underwater power line which electrifies Jason Voorhees back to life once more. He then proceeds to kill the two young lovers.
The next day, Jason notices the cruise ship SS Lazarus parked in his lake and decides to board the ship to just before it leaves for New York. One of the passengers, nineteen-year-old Rennie Wickham, is plagued by visions of a child Jason. Jason then goes on a killing spree killing off most of the students and crew, Rennie, along with her classmates Sean Robertson, Julius Gaw, her teacher Colleen Van Deusen, her uncle Charles McCulloch, and her dog Toby manage to escape the ship on the lifeboat, but the rest of the students drown as the ship sinks. Jason swims after the survivors in secret.
That night, After some time Rennie and the others eventually reach Manhattan. Jason pursues them and kills Julius, McCulloch and five New York City residents. Colleen is also killed in a car accident. Rennie and Sean are chased into the sewers and barely escape while Jason is washed away by a flood of toxic waste (although Rennie hallucinates that he changes into a normal child). As a new day dawns, Rennie, Sean and Toby go to explore New York.
After the Manhattan murders, the FBI realizes Jason Voorhees is a real threat and begins to track him down. They eventually locate him back at Crystal Lake.
1999[]
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
Over the course of ten years Freddy succeeds in killing all the kids of Springwood except for John Doe, whom he made forget his memories and sent him away from Springwood in hopes that he would bring his daughter back so he could escape the boundaries of Springwood and continue killing kids in other towns. After sometime John ends up at a shelter where he meets Maggie who now works as a counselor with troubled teens, she convinces John that if he wants to regain his memories he should return to where he came from and so they travel back to Springwood along with three troubled teens named Carlos, Spencer, and Tracy, after they reach Springwood they split up with Maggie and John going around town looking for answers while the others end up at the Elm Street house, after awhile Freddy kills Carlos, Spencer, and John before entering the mind of his daughter to escape Springwood, once they got back to the shelter Maggie realized Freddy had erased the memories of the three boys from everyone's minds except for her, Tracy, and Doc. That night while Maggie slept she had a dream of her childhood, she soon realized Freddy was her father, Doc after fighting with Freddy in one of his dreams figured out that Freddy could be pulled out of the dream world and killed in the real world, Maggie entered the dream world and pulled Freddy out. There, she inflicted several injuries on him before stabbing him with his own clawed glove and sticking him with a pipe bomb, which blew Freddy to bits and released the dream demons that gave him his power. while Freddy was dead and in Hell, the town people devised a plan to keep Freddy from coming back, they erased all signs he ever existed, Those who made contact with him were locked in Westin Hills (to avoid "infecting" the others) and given Hypnocil to prevent them from dreaming, This allows Springwood four years of peace.
2000s[]
2000[]
Friday the 13th: Bad Land
December:
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2003[]
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
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- Freddy vs. Jason
Fall: while stuck in hell Freddy searched for another undead serial killer like himself whom he could send to Springwood to get the kids to remember him again, he eventually finds Jason Voorhees whom he resurrects, and manipulates into going to Springwood to kill some of the town's teenagers to generate enough fear to allow Freddy to return.
Sunday, September 14: After Jason arrives in Springwood, he kills a few teens which gives Freddy enough power to return, due to the fear caused by the three deaths. Meanwhile, Will Rollins and Mark Davies have escaped from Westin Hills.
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2006[]
Wildstorm's Friday the 13th
Summer:
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2007[]
Friday the 13th: How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Friday, June 13:
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2008[]
Friday the 13th: Abuser and the Abused
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Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash
December:
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2009[]
Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash: The Nightmare Warriors
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2010s[]
2010[]
Friday, August 13: After being captured by the government and, imprisoned in the Camp Crystal Lake Research for awhile, It is decided that Jason should be cryogenically frozen and moved to another facility for further examination. Due to a guard throwing a blanket over him, Jason's IV is knocked loose, allowing him to escape and kill Doctor Wimmer (who had decided to supersede freezing Jason and transport him "soft") and the five soldiers meant to move him. While chasing head researcher Rowan LaFontaine through the facility, Jason is knocked into the cryogenic chamber by the scientist, As he begun to freeze, Jason rammed his machete through the chamber door, stabbing Rowan and causing the gasses to seep out, causing Rowan to freeze along with him..
2011[]
Wildstorm’s A Nightmare on Elm Street series
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2012[]
New Line Cinema’s Tales of Horror
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2450s[]
2455[]
Jason X
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