When hellebores flower, the weight of the flowers tend to bed the stems, so the flowers nod or droop, pointing towards the ground.
The more vivid purple hellebores in these pictures were in a front garden. The only views I could get looking over the garden wall showed the undersides of the petals.
The others were growing near the top of a roadside grassy bank on Compton hill. As I came along the pavement, I was below the plants, and so got at least a partial view of the “front” of the flower.