Blank (2022 film)

Blank is a 2022 British science fiction thriller film directed by Natalie Kennedy and written by Stephen Herman. It stars Rachel Shelley, Heida Reed, Wayne Brady, Annie Cusselle, Rebecca-Clare Evans, and Bhasker Patel.

Plot
Claire Rivers is a desperate writer struggling with writer's block, so she travels to a fully enclosed rural compound for a retreat that is fully controlled by A.I. and a glitch turns the whole residence into a torturous prison.

Cast

 * Rachel Shelley as Claire Rivers
 * Heida Reed as Rita
 * Wayne Brady as Henry
 * Annie Cusselle as Young Claire
 * Rebecca-Clare Evans as Helen Rivers
 * Bhasker Patel as Dr. Varma

Release
Blank premiered at the Manchester Film Festival on 15 March 2022. It was released in the United Kingdom on 3 November 2023.

Reception
Common Sense Media gave the film a score of four out of five and wrote it was a "compelling new cinematic prison that's well worth spending time in." Phil Hoad from The Guardian gave a score of three out of five and wrote, "With some flashes of inspired direction, like an upwards through-the-typewriter shot, this hybrid of fastidious huis clos thriller and trauma drama at least has an in-progress human energy and scope".