Seven Ghostface films, the Lakewood television story and Resurrection, with the six If I Die web shorts, narrative music videos and licensed playable side stories. Calendar conflicts are explained instead of turning each sequel into another universe.
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All seven released films form one continuing history. Contradictory anniversary dialogue and screen props affect individual calendar dates, not the continuity itself. Qualified games and promotional stories are included here with their own canon badges and overlapping era windows.
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Reading the timelineConfirmed, assumed and disputed stories appear together. “est.” marks inference. “After” means relative order. Separate continuities retain their own history.
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Films & connected material
1995
Film segment · Embedded segmentConfirmed canonReleased 1996 / 2000
1995; about one year before the original Woodsboro killings Relative / stated chronology
The family tragedy and earlier recording explain Sidney’s first encounter with Ghostface.
Placement Optional embedded backstory, not a separately released prequel. The one-year anniversary anchors the murder; Roman’s earlier approach is not assigned an invented exact day.
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est. 1996 departure; Mortal Kombat’s New Era has no synchronized Scream year Evidence-based estimate
Billy’s playable crossover includes character interactions and an ending about carrying his violence into another world.
Placement Placed beside original-era Billy as a qualified overlapping branch, not a further canonical Woodsboro murder spree. Developer identification plus the ending’s Woodsboro departure support the estimate; no invented Earthrealm year.
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est. 1996–1998; recorded before Randy’s death in Scream 2 Evidence-based estimate
Randy records his advice for surviving a concluding chapter.
Placement Optional nested recording. The playback occurs in the Hollywood story, but its making must precede his death. Calendar window stays broad because the Windsor year conflicts.
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est. 1997–1998; about one to two years after Woodsboro Evidence-based estimate
A college premiere and a new copycat force the survivors back into the story.
Placement One-year summaries / later memorial dates and two-year dialogue disagree. Keep one sequel in a bounded calendar window, rather than silently treating its 1997 release as the sole authority.
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est. 1999–2000; several years after the first attacks Evidence-based estimate
Murders on a film set expose the hidden history behind Sidney’s family tragedy.
Placement Reported fax / dialogue dates point to 1999 while other series chronology uses 2000. Actual fax frame not personally inspected. Both readings preserve the position between Windsor and the fifteen-year anniversary.
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est. late 1990s–early 2000s; contemporary promotional setting Evidence-based estimate
Ghostface enters a macabre band-centered miniature story with David Arquette.
Placement Campaign-era window, not the upload year or a certified incident between film scenes. The dream / comic framing is promotional and does not establish a resurrected film character.
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Edition / access: Exact fourth-film Prime Video product linked by Amazon’s own guide. Product request returned 503; region / current offer not certified.
est. 2000s–2010s; modern Woodsboro scenario window Evidence-based estimate
Players direct an anonymous Ghostface through short killing scenarios while avoiding witnesses and police.
Placement Same franchise era as the fourth-film campaign, but not verified as its exact plot or additional canon murders. Release month varies across databases. Retired game remains in the inventory with honest access limits.
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Edition / access: Exact licensed mobile game record. No current official app-store purchase or legitimate Amazon game edition recovered; not an APK download.
est. 2021–2022; twenty-five-year anniversary reading gives 2021 Evidence-based estimate
Sam returns to Woodsboro after Tara is attacked, and the survivors face a legacy-obsessed killer.
Placement Paramount explicitly says twenty-five years after the original: 1996 + 25 = 2021. Reported laptop / later-film references point to 2022. The bounded date preserves the contradiction; it does not create a canon dispute.
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est. Halloween 2022–2023; approximately one year after the fifth-film story Evidence-based estimate
The Carpenter sisters and their friends try to start again in New York.
Placement 2022 follows the twenty-five-year / 2021 reading; later labels and references support 2023. Directors confirm a close continuation. This is Halloween, not the film’s March release. Exact prop calendar / memorial frames remain an inspection gap.
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Modern era; one real-time night scenario, exact year unstated Relative / stated chronology
A cooperative Woodsboro survival scenario uses Ghostface calls and scene objectives.
Placement An explicitly overlapping playable story window. Actual rules text provides no fictional year; the product’s 2023 copyright does not date the murders. Variable player deaths do not rewrite the films.
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Inspection: Actual official six-page rulebook text checked; retailer and licence matched. Full companion-app voice script / every scene card not inspected.
Edition / access: Exact Funko / Prospero Hall item 70515; matching retailer listing retrieved. Companion app requirements / current regional support should be checked.
est. 2026; later than the New York case Evidence-based estimate
A new killer targets the life Sidney has built with her family.
Placement Released-film reporting supports a contemporary 2026 placement. Tatum’s age does not reconcile every earlier reference to Sidney’s children; no invented birth year or exact November day. Full calendar / dialogue inspection still required.
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est. 2020s; Scream 7 promotional story window Evidence-based estimate
The official soundtrack video stages its own Ghostface-centered horror narrative with Mckenna Grace.
Placement Parts 1–2 are one continuing promotional story, with an extended digital edition also documented. Its performers / appearances are not proof that it happens to Sidney’s family between film scenes.
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These entries still lack enough evidence for a useful story-era insertion. Supported estimates and source-story retellings appear in the main timeline; remaining gaps need further research.
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Lakewood — MTV seasons 1–2
1994
TV segment · Embedded segmentConfirmed canonReleased 2015–2016
1994; Lakewood’s earlier murder history Relative / stated chronology
Past violence and the Brandon James legend shape Emma’s present.
Placement Optional embedded scenes and recollections. The 1994 year is established in the episode-history inventory; not an independent prequel release.
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Edition / access: Licensed series viewing page with all three seasons in the season selector. Select the indicated season; region / ads apply. An exact Amazon season edition was not recovered; no first-season DVD is substituted for season two.
est. 2010s; contemporary house-party window Evidence-based estimate
A party of MTV personalities has turned deadly as the Scream cast arrives.
Placement Overlapping campaign-era window, not an incident whose deaths are imposed on the other MTV series. Official BTS and the contemporary promo release confirm the original miniature narrative; full standalone replay not recovered.
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est. autumn 2015; one continuing Lakewood case Evidence-based estimate
A viral video precedes attacks that reconnect Emma’s friends to Lakewood’s past.
Placement Grouped season: the present-day case continues without a season-sized jump. Reported later January 2016 prop and the three-month interval support autumn 2015; no full ten-episode prop audit claimed.
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Edition / access: Licensed series viewing page with all three seasons in the season selector. Select the indicated season; region / ads apply. An exact Amazon season edition was not recovered; no first-season DVD is substituted for season two.
est. winter 2015–2016; around the second-season opening Evidence-based estimate
Audrey, Brooke, Emma, Jake, Kieran and Noah leave final-message videos at Noah’s urging.
Placement Actual in-character narrative rather than ordinary cast interviews. Their presence and the campaign’s second-season premise support this window, before Jake’s second-season fate; precise filming order is not established.
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Edition / access: Exact contemporary inventory embeds all six original MTV videos. Current complete playback unverified; not sold as part of an unrelated film edition.
est. January–February 2016; roughly three months after Season 1 Evidence-based estimate
Emma returns and another killer exploits the survivors’ secrets.
Placement Season kept together; cast interview confirms the three-month gap. January report / calendar dates are secondary-reported and remain an interior verification gap. The later Halloween special is separated because of its explicit jump.
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Edition / access: Licensed series viewing page with all three seasons in the season selector. Select the indicated season; region / ads apply. An exact Amazon season edition was not recovered; no first-season DVD is substituted for season two.
est. Halloween 2016; eight months after Kieran’s arrest Evidence-based estimate
A remote-island trip brings the Lakewood survivors into another murder story.
Placement One continuous two-part special, often licensed as one 82-minute episode. Tubi explicitly supplies the eight-month interval. The broad 2016 calendar reading stays estimated because reported winter props and the approximate interval do not align to an exact day.
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Edition / access: Licensed series viewing page with all three seasons in the season selector. Select the indicated season; region / ads apply. An exact Amazon season edition was not recovered; no first-season DVD is substituted for season two.
These entries still lack enough evidence for a useful story-era insertion. Supported estimates and source-story retellings appear in the main timeline; remaining gaps need further research.
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Resurrection — VH1 reboot
est. 2000s childhood
TV segment · Embedded segmentConfirmed canonReleased 2019
est. Halloween 2018; late-2010s contemporary story Evidence-based estimate
Deion and his friends are targeted by Ghostface in a new murder history.
Placement The commonly reconstructed 2018 placement is an estimate from the episode chronology, not the 2019 broadcast date. Full phone / calendar prop inspection remains open. Six episodes form one case, so no mechanical episode-by-episode splitting.
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These entries still lack enough evidence for a useful story-era insertion. Supported estimates and source-story retellings appear in the main timeline; remaining gaps need further research.