The Ponderous Universe begins in a small San Antonio bar in 1993 with Detective Michael Lorenzo and his partner Diane Loveland. From that one fateful night, and entire adventure spanning over thirty years begins. Whether you're only interested in experiencing just a few of our films, exploring the entire universe, or just came by to check out how the Serial Rabbit made his mark on the world, this is the page for you! Discover the order of events and experience the world from Day One, or just see what Not So Sane has to offer!
The following listings are designed to explain the order in which you can get the most enjoyment and mystery out of the Ponderous Universe. If you watch it in the order listed below, you will follow the path designed by the creator of the cinematic universe.
Taking place in the first reality, this timeline is the original timeline that follows Mike after he loses his partner, Diane, during a shootout with Donovan's Innocent Killers.
Films taking place in this timeline are denoted with "@"
Also taking place in the first reality, this timeline was altered when the Serial Rabbit went back in time and killed Mike's partner, Diane. Causing him to take alternate paths and never becoming obsessed with bringing down Donovan. While pursuing the Serial Rabbit, Mike has his memories of the original timeline restored.
Films taking place in this timeline are denoted with "*"
The second reality is a branch of the primary reality. In this world, Mike was killed in the shootout, causing Diane to become obsessed with bringing down Donovan. He path is similar but not the same. Other characters have varying paths.
Films taking place in this reality are denoted with
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Detective Mike Lorenzo is on the hunt for the serial killer that murdered his partner. Unknown to him, this latest hunt is about to open up an entire new world he never knew he lived.
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Mike Lorenzo begins telling the tale of two worlds. He begins to explain how he began a crusade to bring down the wealthy businessman Collin Donovan after a team of his professional killers murders his partner. The only problem? Mike's partner wasn't killed by a hit squad, she was killed by a serial killer known as the Rabbit.
Featuring the Innocent Killers and Shadow Rises, with White and Black.
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Will Sloan can't catch a break. This is a retelling of the classic Ponderous film Dawg's Life. Taking place in the second reality continuity, it tells the story of a small time gangster who works his way up in a cartel.
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Tara's origin story. The original full length feature film about a young girl who witnesses her family killed in a brutal mafia takeover. She vows revenge but with the help of the Shadow Dragon, learns the person responsible is the only person she truly trusts.
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A retelling of the original Ballerina story, set in the second reality.
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The origins of the rabbit. As the rabbit tells the tail (pun, het it), of how he began, he recounts his the fourth year of his killing spree.
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Mike continues his story and tells his doctor how he tried to recruit others to his cause of bringing down Collin Donovan. Only a one would survive to be recruited by Mike.
Featuring the feature films Tag, White and Black, The Ballerina, Barrio Angelz, Shadow Dragon A Dawg's Life and Shadow Rises. It also includes the short films Lust and Pride.
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Will Sloan is having the second to last worst day of his life. This slapstick raunchy comedy follow a day in the life of one of Donovan's hitmen.
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Joy Malone is down on her luck. In order to pull herself out of the trouble she is in, she runs a long con on a gang of meth dealers.
Unknown to her at the time, this escapade will lead her down a path straight to the Beta Project.
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Four women who are thrown into the world of the supernatural are recruited by a secret organization that hunts down and eliminates supernatural threats.
Taking place in the altered timeline of Mike's reality.
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A thriller about a young woman who chose small town living over life as a powerful attorney in the big city, all in order to protect her father from the devil collecting his due.
Followed by the second film in the Beta series that is an adaptation of Mauser's novel, The Beta Hunters, which explores how the Girls from the Project become supernatural killers.
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With all the insanity of the Beta Project and a slowing of Donovan's struggle to take over the world, Mike recounts his time as a recruiter for the Project and how he battled evil and other supernatural threats before the door to the possibility of time travel is opened to him.
Featuring the feature films The Beta Project, Kartel Killer, The Bad Mojo Project, and Never Say Goodbye.
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With Mike on the run, he must allow the next generation of cops hunt down the Serial Rabbit. Detective Harvey takes up the investigation into the serial killing rabbit.
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Everything begins to fall apart in the original prime timeline. While Diane is able to cross over from her reality, they team up to stop a new threat that could destroy both worlds.
Featuring the feature films End of the Innocence, Easy Way to Die and the short films Greed and Gluttony.
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Mike and Diane attempt to find and convince Doctor Fish to resume his work on oricalchum in an attempt to recreate the ability to travel in time, so that they can track down the Rabbit and correct the timeline. While on the journey, Mike explains to Diane what is to come in her timeline, if her world mirrors Mike's.
Featuring the films The Desert Rose, Before the Knight, Right Here Waiting and After the Day.
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After giving his doctor some unsettling news of what is to come over the next few years, Mike is hurled across realities and finds himself in Dian'e film noir era where she has followed his footsteps and become a private detective. They share notes about what they know about the future and how the world is destined to end.
Featuring the films Green Conspiracy, Knight Watchmen (2002) and Against the Wind.
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Recounting his last adventure to the detectives from Serial Rabbit One, the rabbit mourns the loss of his new friends as they try to pull of a heist against a genetics corporation.
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The Day of Seven Sisters arrives.
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After the Day of Seven Sisters, Doctor Fish tries to survive his new world and the death that surrounds him.
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We know Doctor Fish's story, but what happened to Cecilia after the Day of Seven Sisters before she turned up on her father's doorstap five years later?
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In an attempt to maintain justice in a dystpian world, Texas institutes the Watchmen, a private law enforcement branch that solves crimes and distributes the punishment.
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A subject of the corporations uses Artificial Intelligence to create Serial Rabbit 6 after he watches the last Serial Rabbit movie and finds out that not only are there no more, but they never made the even ones.
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After years in cryo, Hal Curtiz is thawed out and begins a mission to take down the corporations.
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Setting up the final chapter of the Ponderous Universe, the plans of the corporation are revealed.
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Mike and Diane cross time and realities in order to stop the end of the world.
Featuring the films Apocrypha and Red Days.
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Based on the true story of deputy marshal FM Miller.
A love letter to the classic westerns of the 70s and 80s.
Based on the true story of deputy marshal Bass Reeves.
Based on the true story of the outlaw and legend, Rose Dunn aka the Rose of Cimmarron.
Exposing the hypocrisy, lunacy and bias of the local news industry, VOSOT explores the day in the life of a Photojournalist and all the insanity that happens at a local news station.
When Simone discovers she is living in a simulated reality, she must do everything she can to escape.
A father and son take a weekend hunting trip, and as long as the follow the rules left by the owner of the cabin, everything will be fine.
A skeleton operating as a detective is hired to prove infidelity but instead witnesses a murder.