No Through Road (web series)

No Through Road
"No Through Road". First video thumbnail
GenrePsychological horror, supernatural horror, analog horror, found footage
Created bySteven Chamberlain
Written bySteven Chamberlain
Directed bySteven Chamberlain
Starring
  • Steven Chamberlain
  • James Williams
  • Oliver Campbell
  • Chris Hayes
  • David Powell
ComposersSteven Chamberlain
Gillian Welch (sample)
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes4
Production
CinematographySteven Chamberlain
Original release
NetworkYouTube
Release16 January 2009 (2009-01-16) 
29 August 2012 (2012-08-29)

No Through Road (alternatively stylised simply as NTR) is a British web series written and directed by filmmaker Steven Chamberlain, who also stars. The series purports to be footage found in a discarded video camera belonging to four teenagers en route to Stevenage, England, as they find themselves trapped in a time loop, pursued by a man in a fedora and theatrical mask. The series comprises a short film and a three-part miniseries set after the movie's events.

No Through Road originated with a 2009 short film, which was based on a time loop concept developed by Chamberlain and inspired by the 1999 supernatural horror film The Blair Witch Project, the 2006 David Lynch film Inland Empire, and the 2008 psychological horror film The Strangers (from which Gillian Welch's "My First Lover" is sampled).

Chamberlain followed the film with a three-part miniseries in mid-2011, set some time after the events of the short. With the cast and crew initially being uncredited to maintain the illusion of the footage being real in the early days of online video platforms, the series was aired through to late-2012 on YouTube, going viral and receiving a positive critical reception.