Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
《空白》的导演吉田惠辅很会拍关于和解的故事。《麦子小姐》是女儿与母亲的和解，《犬猿》是兄弟姐妹间的和解，而《空白》是社会恩怨中人与他人和自己的和解，可能是其中最沉重的之一。和解的结局削弱了影片的力度，但我宁愿相信导演并非不能免俗，而是坚持自己心中理想主义的野望。
在失去花音的时间里，老父亲开始弥补那些本该属于她的空白……坂本桃李好像一直演不开心的角色……
披着动画外衣的成人故事，有很多大人才知道的梗。是个合格的英雄成长故事和商业片，值得鼓励。总觉得铁扇公主长相很像谁，但又想不起来。
不错啊！值得推荐，不过剧情没有那么吸引我，可能是个人看剧类型影响
事故之前的女儿就是个空白，没有人在乎她，去世后留下一块空白。
疫情期间看感同身受，都喜欢站在道德的至高点恶意无处不在
做事情前一定要思量下，自己的行为可能为他人所带来的危险，开车、位高权重、为人父母等等。
各种似曾相识的桥段，如金·凯瑞、星爷、迪士尼、梦工厂、超英等电影，甚至一对反派就像灰太狼红太狼（也是服气，女反还有《白蛇·缘起》小狐妖的影子）。
真的还不错，特效、制作这些。甚至里面还玩了些小朋友根本不会懂而一看就是为陪看的家长准备的梗
空白不是失去而是忽视。多线的各自发展及融合影响、人物的创伤及救赎的表现等等，都不够水准。
看多了有点。。。
好久没看熊出没系列了 现在打斗场面都能做得那么流畅了吗？太厉害了！当初过年的时候没去看3D真的太可惜了 画面都做得好好啊！难怪评分那么高！
好像谁都有错好像谁都没错，真正错的只有吃人血馒头的无良媒体罢了。为什么一定要失去了才懂得珍惜？感谢导演手下留情拍了一个温情的结尾。ps村长真适合演苦兮兮（
一张报纸，揉成团，再把它铺平。虽然父亲最后觉悟出要和别人达成和解，可是伤痕刻在每个人的心里，永远都不能抚平。说不上很差，但也不至于是佳片
题材和内核还可以 故事拍的一般 看的时候不太专注 一直在神游 可能追根究底还是不够打动我吧 唯一有印象的 大概就是葬礼上的那一番道歉吧 真是太苦了
剧情一个悲剧接一个悲剧，从父亲开始，到父亲看着女儿的画和自己的画痛哭结尾。父亲演得很好，很能带动观众的情绪。对剧情里的父亲完全不认同。
4.5 其实前半段都对这个充满着戾气的父亲不抱有好感，在女儿发生意外之后才知道珍惜，不顾一切近乎霸蛮式的为女儿讨要公道。但后面在导演的渐进铺垫中，原来是不能原谅自己就这样让女儿离开，在后面笨拙的开始绘画、看漫画，直到结尾因为画作的释然真的是层层铺进，剧作相当的扎实。其实桃李和女司机的故事线还是在为主线服务，但是能够这样多线兼顾已经很不错了。
没法单纯的评判谁对谁错，现实也是这样，每个人都太惨了，看完以后感觉心里压了一块大石头一样感受……
导演想要抓很多社会问题，例如：单亲，偷盗，家暴，性骚扰，霸凌，舆论施压等等。可是各个视角只见一隅，张力尚欠。更显得各位演员在用力诠释偏执和自我否定，更显得压抑的气氛有被刻意营造和扩大。
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