Blue Monday (Franchise)

Blue Monday is an American horror franchise that comprises of fourteen films, a television series, comic books and several video games. The franchise primarily focuses on serial killer Tommy Blue who was born to a woman who practiced necromancy and placed a spell on him to make him a "child of satan", or "pure of evil". On his eighteenth birthday, Tommy murdered his abusive mother after years of mental torment and went on a killing spree in the town he'd been isolated from all his live (Buteville, Oregon), targeting suburban mom Elspeth Raines. Tommy killed his mother on the first monday of the year, known as "Blue Monday" due to the bleak weather and post-christmas depression.

The original Blue Monday, released in 1976, was written and directed by Ifan Barber.

Eight sequels have since followed. Tommy Blue is the antagonist in all the films apart from Blue Monday IV: Satan Rising (1982) and Blue Monday VIII: The Christmas Killings (1996), both films are set in the same universe as the Tommy Blue main series, but at different points. IV takes place during Tommy's childhood and focuses on his mother's killings. VIII takes place in a retrofuturistic 2016. In 2006, writer-director Edgar Wright made a remake of the 1976 film. A direct sequel to the 2006 remake was release in 2009. A direct sequel to the original trilogy was released in 2018 and ignores all other films in the franchise.