Fails the Bechdel test

Bad Moon

Name: Bad Moon
Released: 1996

1996. Directed by Eric Red, written by Wayne Smith and Eric Red.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

2 / 3

Fails

Yes 1. At least two women
3 women characters. 6 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
Women do talk to each other.
No 3. About something besides a man
Every conversation between women that our parser found mentions a man.

Second opinion

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The film

One man's struggle to contain the curse he hides within... and his last-ditch attempt to free himself with the love of family. But when it looks as if he is losing his battle, and endangering all he holds most dear, the family dog, Thor, is the last hope for his family's survival... and the end to his Werewolf curse.

Released: 01 Nov 1996
Genres: Horror, Thriller
Rated: R
IMDb: 5.8 / 10
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Janet 219 lines, woman
Uncle Ted 123 lines, man
Brett 63 lines, man
Flopsy 19 lines, man
Thor P.O.V 18 lines, man
Sheriff Jenson 12 lines, man
Rev 10 lines, man
Uncle Teo 9 lines, man
Naturalist 7 lines, woman
Photographer 6 lines

Full cast, 10 people

Mariel Hemingway as Janet Harrison
Michael Paré as Uncle Ted
Mason Gamble as Brett Harrison
Hrothgar Mathews as Jerry Mills (aka "Flopsy")
Ken Pogue as Sheriff Jenson
Johanna Marlowe as Marjorie
Julia Montgomery Brown as Reporter
Gavin Buhr as Forest Ranger
Primo the Dog as Thor
Ken Kirzinger as The Werewolf

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 3% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 139

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	0	1
4 to 6	5	0
7 to 9	0	0
10 to 12	1	1
13 to 15	20	23
16 to 18	14	5
19 to 21	0	0
22 to 24	0	0
25 to 27	0	0
28 to 30	12	6
31 to 33	0	1
34 to 36	9	23
37 to 39	13	20
40 to 42	3	7
43 to 45	8	11
46 to 48	2	2
49 to 51	3	1
52 to 54	1	1
55 to 57	10	10
58 to 60	7	1
61 to 63	4	1
64 to 66	13	5
67 to 69	24	40
70 to 72	5	6
73 to 75	0	1
76 to 78	7	4
79 to 81	14	8
82 to 84	0	3
85 to 87	2	2
88 to 90	0	7
91 to 93	0	0
94 to 96	8	9
97 to 99	12	8
100 to 102	14	7
103 to 105	0	0
106 to 108	7	13
109 to 111	0	1
112 to 114	0	0
115 to 117	6	23
118 to 120	1	9
121 to 123	0	2
124 to 126	0	1
127 to 129	2	0
130 to 132	1	2
133 to 135	3	3
136 to 138	6	5
139 to 139	1	1

The evidence

Straight from the script
Counted from the script and the credits

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Exhibit A: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 46 are women's.

238 lines from women, 274 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit B: who's in it

3 women and 7 men in the cast. 6 women and 13 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 5 of 529. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 14 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 42% of the words (3,295), men 58% (4,611). Women have 46% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.

Exhibit D: 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 E: behind the camera

3 of the 14 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 28% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Eric Red (man)
Written by: Eric Red (man)
From the novel by: Wayne Smith (man)
Produced by: James G. Robinson (man)
Shot by: Jan Kiesser (man), Geza Sinkovics (gender not listed)
Edited by: Carroll Timothy O'Meara (man)
Music by: Daniel Licht (man)
Production design by: Linda Del Rosario (woman), Richard Paris (gender not listed)
Costumes by: Tracey Boulton (gender not listed), Rita Riggs (woman)
Cast by: Michelle Allen (woman), Tory Herald (gender not listed)