Bella Thorne Directs Cheat Codes's Deliciously Depraved New Horror Short

because the world has retreated into itself and folks are largely staying inside to flatten the curve while in a unprecedented global pandemic, I can't stop thinking about Jean-Paul Sartre's famously misunderstood quote, "Hell is other people." It's tempting to refute it immediately amid our new usual, where we'd give anything have the ability to be around other people again — at a concert, in a cafe, anywhere.


Although Cheat Codes's depraved new video for "No Service in the Hills" makes a hell of a case for staying away from people for another few months, pandemic or not. In this twisted, blissfully satirical short horror film – co-written and directed by none other than burgeoning cinematic auteur Bella Thorne — an eas brodown getaway turns violent, and the opening victim all of the madness is none other than Logan Paul.


This cross between Scream, The Strangers, and also a fighting game finds Cheat Codes's Trevor and Matthew up in the titular hills, away from the titular cell service, as well as Paul, featured artist Prince$$ Rosie, and other bros planning on shotgunning bottles of beer (somehow) and typically just like guys being dudes. Then a crowd of masked terrorizers interject and begin knifing people.


As soon as shit gets real, Matthew hides in the washroom trying desperately to connect using his flip phone, and failing. "Three-piece DJ order gotta split the cash three ways," he exclaims, frantic and sweating on the toilet. "Fucking dumb, idiot." The full video is delivered with as forceful a wink as you could let for without actually losing an eye — something Paul ends up finding out about in the video.


No more spoilers, yet let's just mention that by the (twist) ending, Sartre's quote may actually hold added resonance. Once it comes to other people, some days we need their help to work toward a usual objective, you know? No thanks to Trippie Redd and Blackbear, who sit this particular weekend out, it looks like Cheat Codes may live to prepare another hybrid rap-pop-EDM tune. Or not. Who knows!


Watch the wonderfully escapist depravity unfold in Cheat Codes's boundless "No Service in the Hills" video above.