10 Horror Movies That Lied To You In The Title

4. All My Friends Hate Me (2021)

Kate Lyn Sheil - She Dies Tomorrow
BFI Distribution

All My Friends hate Me is a countryside psychological horror-comedy that trades on the reliability of the protagonist and everyone he knows. And the protagonist in question is Pete (Tom Stourton), whose paranoia and insecurities don't set him in good stead for his 31st birthday bash in a remote countryside mansion with his old uni mates, his ex, and the mysterious stranger Harry (Dustin Demri-Burns), who seems out to get him from the off.

Returning from volunteering in a refugee camp, Pete is keen to hook up with the group, but finds himself the butt of various jokes, and begins to suspect a plan for Harry to replace him in the circle of friends. Everyone's behaviour gets more and more intense and frightening as the film builds towards a climax in which it turns out, no, Pete's friends don't actually hate him.

They really don't; he's just been paranoid the entire time. And, well, he's kind of a dick. His self-centredness is used throughout to skew the way we humble viewers interpret events, all the way up to the final scene where Pete has an emotional breakdown and is shown to be the shallow, obnoxious ingrate he really is.

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