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 hatted masked man.

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,[4][5] going viral and receiving a positive critical reception.

But after paying tribute, similar events take place, and a familiar face reappears, along with an all too recognisable masked assailant stalking them.

A hatted masked man suddenly appears in front of the car, drags the four out of the vehicle, and kills Steven by beating him to death with his camera, ending the tape.

In November 2020, Steven Chamberlain publicly revealed himself as the director, writer, and co-star of No Through Road, with his cast and crew having initially remained uncredited to maintain the illusion of the original 2009 short film and 2011–2012 web series continuation being legitimate found footage,[1] only naming one other cast member as Oliver (who portrays the car's driver "Ollie" and main star of the film), with the characters serving as fictionalised versions of themselves (à la The Blair Witch Project).

[1] While intended as "a one-off — a self-contained unit that stood on its own as piece of found footage storytelling", development of a web series sequel began during Chamberlain's university years, casting another friend, Dave, as himself, "operat[ing] the camera throughout [most] of the three follow-ups".

Unlike the original film, Chamberlain spent several brainstorming sessions developing a direction for the follow-ups, spending "a lot of evenings drinking beer and writing down ideas, and going, no, that’s too complicated, how can we make this just complicated enough that people might get it, and it would be satisfying, but not answer all the questions" before settling on a time loop as the primary concept, in leading to the "rug-pull, gut-drop moment [in No Through Road 4] when you realize that the car that's turned up is them in the past".

[1] While filming the second installment, Chamberlain elected for a slower pace, still "largely improvised [but] a lot more restrained and had a slightly different tone to it[…] seeing how real we could make this feel and how languorous the pace would be if you weren't planning on making a film", envisioning it as a way to make the film "still feel authentic and scrappy", while the third and fourth videos were developed together as a unit, the three follow-ups serving as "very much a sequel[…] planned very much as a separate thing, like, if we can live up to ['No Through Road 1'], how are we going to do it?”[1] On the fan theories resulting from the series and its meaning, Chamberlain described "the not knowing" as what had given the series such longevity, citing David Lynch and The Blair Witch Project as one of his main cinematic inspirations on depicting "the thing you don’t see", that if "there's any kind of reason behind the longevity of 'No Through Road,’ it's because I kind of took that one point on board fairly well".

[1] In a separate interview in March 2022,[2] Chamberlain elaborated on the films having been shot with a MiniDV, mainly from a desire to "test it out" at the age of 17, with the cast being drunk while filming the original, and that while portraying the series' masked figure, that "there were quite a few hairy moments where I had to leap and hide in the hedgerows so that I wasn’t arrested by the police for scaring the crap out of people who were just trying to drive home" due to how he was dressed.

[14] Bustle described the "weird-o" series as "a masterful example of excellent storytelling done on a tiny budget, exemplifying the fact that you don't need a ton of money to make a really freaky movie", with "the first video [standing] alone quite well" and instilling a feeling of "never want[ing] to drive home at night again".

[22] On the director's commentary for In Fear, a 2013 British psychological horror film written and directed by Jeremy Lovering, Lovering accredited No Through Road (for which Chamberlain was originally uncredited) as the primary source of inspiration for the film's main plot and premise, which follows a young couple (Iain De Caestecker and Alice Englert) as they find themselves trapped in a loop between two road signs in the Irish countryside at night, while pursued by an unknown masked assailant (Allen Leech).