Passes the Bechdel test

Alone in the Dark

Name: Alone in the Dark
Released: 2005

2005. Directed by Uwe Boll, written by Elan Mastai and Michael Roesch and Peter Scheerer.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
7 women characters. 7 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 3 scenes out of 158.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

Not rated bechdeltest.com readers haven't rated this film.

The film

Edward Carnby, detective of the paranormal, unexplained and supernatural, investigates a mystery (the recent death of a friend) with clues leading to "Shadow Island" that brings him face to face with bizarre horrors that prove both psychologically disturbing and lethal, as he discovers that evil demons worshiped by an ancient culture called the Abskani are planning on coming back to life in the 21st century to once again take over the world... and only he and a young genius anthropologist with an incredible memory (and his ex-girlfriend), Aline Cedrac, stand in their way, at a gateway to hell. Standing in Carnby's way, however, is the impact that a brief encounter with an evil spirit called the Queen had upon his mind, as he slowly finds himself overpowered by the forces of darkness as they eat away at his very sanity...

Released: 28 Jan 2005
Genres: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Rated: R
IMDb: 2.4 / 10
Metascore: 9 / 100
Awards: 4 wins & 4 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

Women
Men
Not in the cast list
Bigger name, more lines

Carnby 93 lines, man
Aline 70 lines, woman
Burke 51 lines, man
Hudgens 35 lines, man
Agent Miles 28 lines, man
Fischer 22 lines, man
Agent Barr 13 lines, man
Krash 10 lines, woman
Captain Chernick 8 lines, man
Guard 8 lines, man

Full cast, 29 people

Christian Slater as Edward Carnby
Tara Reid as Aline Cedrac
Stephen Dorff as Richard Burke
Will Sanderson as Agent Miles
Ona Grauer as Agent Feenstra
Pak Ho-sung as Agent Marko
Sarah Deakins as Linda
Françoise Yip as Agent Cheung
Daniel Cudmore as Agent Barr
Frank C. Turner as Sam Fischer
Matthew Walker as Prof. Lionel Hudgens
Catherine Lough Haggquist as Krash
Mark Acheson as Captain Chernick
Darren Shahlavi as John Dillon
Karin Konoval as Sister Clara
Craig Bruhnanski as 80's Sheriff
Kwesi Ameyaw as Deputy Adams
Ed Anders as James Pinkerton
Michael P. Northey as Guard
Malcolm Scott as Delivery Guy
Ryan Drescher as Young Boy
Sean Campbell as First Mate
Brendan Fletcher as Cabbie
Mike Dopud as Agent Turner
Dean Redman as Agent Richards
Brad Turner as Beat Cop
Donna Lysell as Sarah Fischer
John Fallon as Agent Yonek
Dustyn Arthurs as Young Edward

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 4 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 4% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 158

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 4	1	1
5 to 8	0	0
9 to 12	0	12
13 to 16	0	14
17 to 20	0	1
21 to 24	4	14
25 to 28	0	2
29 to 32	1	4
33 to 36	0	9
37 to 40	1	0
41 to 44	0	2
45 to 48	1	9
49 to 52	6	6
53 to 56	5	11
57 to 60	14	12
61 to 64	2	2
65 to 68	3	3
69 to 72	4	2
73 to 76	3	17
77 to 80	13	28
81 to 84	1	15
85 to 88	3	3
89 to 92	2	2
93 to 96	0	1
97 to 100	14	33
101 to 104	3	12
105 to 108	4	8
109 to 112	2	4
113 to 116	0	5
117 to 120	1	2
121 to 124	0	2
125 to 128	2	6
129 to 132	1	5
133 to 136	1	7
137 to 140	9	27
141 to 144	0	6
145 to 148	1	0
149 to 152	0	0
153 to 156	1	2
157 to 158	3	5

The evidence

Straight from the script
Counted from the script and the credits

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Exhibit A: the passing scenes

The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.

KRASH: Confirmed. AGENT CHEUNG: There! KRASH: Losing readings.

ALINE: Since when do I have a security detail? AGENT CHEUNG: Since it seemed like you needed it.

ALINE: They're Abkani. AGENT CHEUNG: There's more over here.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 27 are women's.

106 lines from women, 294 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

7 women and 21 men in the cast. 7 women and 18 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 4 of 418. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 28 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 23% of the words (866), men 77% (2,829). Women have 27% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.

Exhibit E: the test the other way

Two named men talk to each other about something besides a woman. It passes the reverse test.

Conversations between two named characters

Two women

Two men

Exhibit F: behind the camera

1 of the 14 people in these jobs is a woman. Across the whole crew, 16% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Uwe Boll (man)
Written by: Elan Mastai (man), Michael Roesch (man), Peter Scheerer (man)
Produced by: Shawn Williamson (man)
Shot by: Mathias Neumann (man)
Edited by: Richard Schwadel (man)
Music by: Oliver Lieb (gender not listed), Bernd Wendlandt (man), Peter Zweier (gender not listed), Reinhard Besser (gender not listed)
Production design by: Tink (man)
Costumes by: Maria Livingstone (gender not listed)
Cast by: Maureen Webb (woman)