Fails the Bechdel test
Crawl
2019. Directed by Alexandre Aja, written by Michael Rasmussen and Shawn Rasmussen.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
2 / 3
Fails
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Yes
1. At least two women
6 women characters. 2 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
Disagree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3, though someone marked that rating as dubious.
The film
Against all logic, competitive swimmer Haley drives into the mouth of a furiously destructive Category 5 hurricane on a collision course with her hometown of Florida. But the young woman is desperate to check in on her estranged father, Dave. Instead, an alligator-infested town awaits her. Now, trapped in the tangled mess of their flooded house's labyrinthine crawl space, the father and daughter must face an unexpected, unstoppable adversary: a merciless pair of six-metre predators silently stalking them. As Haley and Dave gasp for air in the claustrophobic basement, only their will to survive can help them stand a chance against the powerful jaws of the scaly enemy. And the question remains. Can they escape without being eaten alive?
- Released
- 12 Jul 2019
- Genres
- Action, Horror, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 6.1 / 10
- Metascore
- 60 / 100
- Awards
- 6 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Haley 156 lines, woman
- Dad 67 lines, man
- Beth 25 lines, woman
- Bobby 5 lines, man
- Operator 2 lines
- Recorded Voice 2 lines
- Radio Announcer 1 lines
Full cast, 14 people
- Kaya Scodelario as Haley
- Barry Pepper as Dave
- Morfydd Clark as Beth
- Ross Anderson as Wayne
- Jose Palma as Pete
- George Somner as Marv
- Anson Boon as Stan
- Ami Metcalf as Lee
- Tina Pribićević as Young Haley
- Srna Vasiljević as Louie
- Colin McFarlane as Governor
- Annamaria Serda as Emma
- Savannah Steyn as Lisa
- Cso-Cso as Sugar
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 2 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 2% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 62
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 to 4 | 27 | 0 |
| 5 to 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 to 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 to 10 | 4 | 0 |
| 11 to 12 | 17 | 0 |
| 13 to 14 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 to 16 | 8 | 0 |
| 17 to 18 | 2 | 0 |
| 19 to 20 | 1 | 0 |
| 21 to 22 | 2 | 0 |
| 23 to 24 | 2 | 0 |
| 25 to 26 | 1 | 1 |
| 27 to 28 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 to 30 | 54 | 21 |
| 31 to 32 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 to 34 | 1 | 1 |
| 35 to 36 | 18 | 9 |
| 37 to 38 | 1 | 0 |
| 39 to 40 | 2 | 0 |
| 41 to 42 | 2 | 1 |
| 43 to 44 | 1 | 0 |
| 45 to 46 | 3 | 0 |
| 47 to 48 | 1 | 3 |
| 49 to 50 | 2 | 1 |
| 51 to 52 | 1 | 1 |
| 53 to 54 | 2 | 6 |
| 55 to 56 | 20 | 20 |
| 57 to 58 | 1 | 1 |
| 59 to 60 | 0 | 0 |
| 61 to 62 | 7 | 7 |
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, 72 are women's.
181 lines from women, 72 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
6 women and 6 men in the cast. 2 women and 0 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
A woman speaks the first line.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 5 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 68% of the words (1,182), men 32% (552). Women have 72% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.
Exhibit D: the test the other way
Run the other way, for men, the film scores 0 out of 3.
Conversations between two named characters
Two women
4
Two men
0
Exhibit E: behind the camera
1 of the 13 people in these jobs is a woman.
Across the whole crew, 24% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Alexandre Aja (man)
- Written by
- Michael Rasmussen (man), Shawn Rasmussen (man)
- Produced by
- Sam Raimi (man), Craig J. Flores (man), Alexandre Aja (man)
- Shot by
- Maxime Alexandre (man)
- Edited by
- Elliot Greenberg (gender not listed)
- Music by
- Steffen Thum (man), Max Aruj (man)
- Production design by
- Alan Gilmore (man)
- Costumes by
- Momirka Bailović (woman)
- Cast by
- Andy Brierley (man)
The crew, department by department
-
Visual Effects
6 women, 5 men, 51 not listed
-
Other crew
0 women, 10 men, 28 not listed
-
Sound
2 women, 17 men, 12 not listed
-
Production
5 women, 9 men, 14 not listed
-
Art
0 women, 7 men, 20 not listed
-
Camera
0 women, 5 men, 17 not listed
-
Costume & Make-Up
2 women, 1 men, 10 not listed
-
Directing
4 women, 3 men
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 27 on average. Men: 30 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Ami Metcalf 25, Kaya Scodelario 27, Morfydd Clark 29
Men
Anson Boon 19, George Somner 24, Jose Palma 29, Ross Anderson 31, Barry Pepper 49
Exhibit G: the money
It made 6.8 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $13.5 million
- Box office
- $91.5 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 62 scenes and 258 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
