Love Hurts

Wow really? This is streaming on Freevee but it's called 'MOST HORRIBLE THINGS at the moment. That's a huge difference from 'Love Hurts' . Wow. -1 Star for the name change. So right off the bat we're at 4/10.

So some weirdo invites 6 dinner guests and pays them 10k each up front to be there. Weirdo promises them that love is in the air. Oh wait he didn't pay them up front, he promised them 10k to attend. What a ripoff.

Oh well it picked up a notch when the weirdo offered the dufus mechanic an upstairs room with a girl +1 Star!

So the weirdo is trying to make love connections amongst his paid guests? What a weirdo!

Oh I did not see that end coming! But this movie was a bit too all over the place. Even so.... 5/10.

It starts out at a murder scene, but it is dark, so we cannot tell what the police are investigating. It then switches to a party scene, where the guests are invited to this Valentine's Day dinner, and each will get $10,000 if they make a 'breakthrough'. It switches back and forth between the party and the police asking questions about the murders. Simple to say, the 'butler' assures the police he/they have friends in high places. The characters are not likeable, and in many ways it is boring. As the police probe, the background story has more and more tension among the guests. So one is following two different threads. The police cannot figure out a motive, which is the stumbling block, as those who orchestrated everything also seem to have every angle figured out. Certainly not worth paying to see in a theater.

Within minutes I disliked all the characters, & as the film progressed, they just got worse.

I don't know if they were all meant to be unlikeable, I assumed that you were meant to be at least enthused about any of them, but it didn't happen.

Six people go to a meal with an over the top Micheal Jackson style host (also unlikeable), who offers them money to do dumb things.

I was surprised I managed to last to the halfway point before giving up. There didn't seem to be any story as such, just a series of 'events' happening.

Oh, & they pretty much spoiled the so called story, by not showing it chronological order.

It's watchable ish at best if there's nothing better to be doing & you've got something else to be doing, like a crossword.

I watched 2022's 'Most Horrible Things' (apparently also known as 'Love Hurts' which is probably a better title on reflection) on a streaming service and, as many people probably feel, streaming services do just tend to fill up their channel with 'content' rather than considering the merits of what they're putting out. For that reason, many of the horror films I watch on their are pretty dire. Perhaps that was a good thing when I sat down to watch it, as my expectations were pretty low.

And it is certainly low budget. Set over the course of a night where six strangers are invited to dinner at the promise of $10,000 each for their stay by the mysterious owner. Naturally, things don't go to plan and the bodycount starts to rise as the night progresses.

But, just because there's no budget or even big name actors, doesn't mean it's not worth considering. The characters, being basically only eight of them, all get a chance to be in the spotlight and there are some nice 'reveals' about some of them that I didn't see coming.

All the actors play their parts well (my personal favourites were the mansion's host/owner and his loyal butler!) and I kind of knew that all would not be what it first seemed and that there were probably going to be a few twists and turns as the story unfolded. I was right in that there are a few 'left turns' the story takes, but I'm notoriously bad at predicting these sorts of things, so maybe it's just me when I say that I never saw any of them coming.

Naturally, there are no huge alien invasions or high-speed car chases, so if you choose to watch this you're going to need to be in the mood for a slow burner. I've read a few other reviews and it seems that opinion is split with other viewers either loving or hating it. Personally, I wouldn't say it's a classic that will stand the test of time, but it's definitely worth watching if you're in the mood for this sort of film and you get the chance to see it as part of your streaming package.

This sums it up for me: A girl says "how did you know I was in the room? I didn't scream." Jump back to the scene of her in the room, she does, in fact, scream.

Acting was bad, characters were bad, story was non-existent.... There was too much talking in the begining and awkward conversation. It took way to long to get to any action. But even with all the conversation, the characters weren't developed well enough for you to care if any of them died.

Also, if I were being interrogated by police and the detective had a low cut shirt on with his chest hair hanging out, I would feel very uncomfortable. What is this? Miami Vice?

It wasn't UNBEARABLY bad... But I am glad I didn't pay to watch this. I didn't turn it off so I guess that's a positive, hence the 3 stars.