Passes the Bechdel test

Crimson Peak

Name: Crimson Peak
Released: 2015

2015. Directed by Guillermo del Toro, written by Guillermo del Toro and Matthew Robbins.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
19 women characters. 5 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 4 scenes out of 130.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3.

The film

Edith Cushing's mother died when she was young but watches over her. Brought up in the Victorian era, she strives to be more than just a woman of marriageable age. She becomes enamored with Thomas Sharpe, a mysterious stranger. After a series of meetings and incidents, she marries Thomas and comes to live with him and his sister, Lady Lucille Sharpe, far away from everything she has known. The naive girl soon comes to realize not everything is as it appears, as ghosts of the past quite literally come out of the woodwork. This movie is more about mystery and suspense than gore.

Released: 16 Oct 2015
Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Rated: R
IMDb: 6.5 / 10
Metascore: 66 / 100
Awards: 7 wins & 45 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Edith 225 lines, woman
Sharpe 174 lines, man
Lucille 110 lines, woman
Dr. Mcmichael 67 lines, man
Cushing 63 lines, man
Finlay 14 lines, man
Ferguson 10 lines, man
Mrs. Walker 9 lines, woman
Teamster 9 lines
Managing Editor 8 lines

Full cast, 46 people

Mia Wasikowska as Edith Cushing
Jessica Chastain as Lady Lucille Sharpe
Tom Hiddleston as Sir Thomas Sharpe
Charlie Hunnam as Dr. Alan McMichael
Jim Beaver as Carter Cushing
Burn Gorman as Holly
Leslie Hope as Mrs. McMichael
Jonathan Hyde as Ogilvie
Doug Jones as Edith's Mother / Lady Sharpe
Bruce Gray as Ferguson
Emily Coutts as Eunice McMichael
Alec Stockwell as Finlay
Brigitte Robinson as Secretary Jane
Gillian Ferrier as Society Girl
Tamara Hope as Society Girl
Kimberly-Sue Murray as Society Girl
Sofia Wells as Young Edith
Joanna Douglas as Maid Annie
Bill Lake as Coroner
Jim Watson as Shipping Agent
Javier Botet as Enola / Margaret / Pamela
Peter Spence as Manager
Danny Waugh as Club Attendant
Sean Hewitt as Reverend
William Healy as Young Alan
Matia Jackett as Young Eunice
Karen Glave as Maid
Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah as Maid
John Carter Craig as Patient
Martin Julien as Postal Clerk
Brian Kaulback as Vendor
Richard Kerr as Vendor
Shane McPherson as Vendor
Tim Blake as Reverend
Thomas Dorey as Architect
Erik Bauersfield as Additional Voices (voice)
Joan Washington as Additional Voices (voice)
Beatrice Basso as Additional Voices (voice)
Mitzi McCall as Additional Voices (voice)
Susanne Blakeslee as Additional Voices (voice)
Drew Davis as Additional Voices (voice)
T.J. McGibbon as Additional Voices (voice)
Anneliese Goldman as Additional Voices (voice)
Jenna Weir as Additional Voices (voice)
Amanda Smith as Beatrice (uncredited)
Laura Waddell as Pamela Upton (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 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 130

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	5	0
4 to 6	17	0
7 to 9	9	13
10 to 12	15	33
13 to 15	22	17
16 to 18	22	14
19 to 21	6	7
22 to 24	2	4
25 to 27	0	8
28 to 30	2	20
31 to 33	11	14
34 to 36	3	10
37 to 39	0	4
40 to 42	5	3
43 to 45	4	3
46 to 48	17	32
49 to 51	31	14
52 to 54	3	2
55 to 57	4	11
58 to 60	0	14
61 to 63	16	0
64 to 66	2	3
67 to 69	11	8
70 to 72	3	2
73 to 75	4	0
76 to 78	2	0
79 to 81	0	0
82 to 84	20	23
85 to 87	0	5
88 to 90	17	13
91 to 93	2	6
94 to 96	2	0
97 to 99	11	8
100 to 102	10	11
103 to 105	6	15
106 to 108	3	0
109 to 111	7	6
112 to 114	18	1
115 to 117	16	9
118 to 120	16	13
121 to 123	3	0
124 to 126	0	0
127 to 129	13	0
130 to 130	2	0

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.

JANE: See? The carriage return is almost automatic. Just push this lever here- EDITH: Automatic. Such a horrid word, isn't it? Everything is automatic now... But - -it does look stronger than longhand. JANE: It's a diabolical contraption, but if you're writing to publishers, you'll get their attention. And you'll save time, I warrant. EDITH: I'm not sure I want to save time at all. What would I do with it?

EDITH: I know this much... EDITH: It wants me out of here. LUCILLE: Nonsense, my dear. Your arrival has brought us hope. EDITH: What about me? If I can't tell what's real, how can I stay here?

LUCILLE: We'd have been at a loss, Edith. Helpless, especially in this weather! It's a miracle, you were bleeding - a compound fracture -! EDITH: The dog ran away. I couldn't find it-

EDITH: She spoke to me - LUCILLE: Who spoke to you?? EDITH: She knew my name -

EDITH: She looked at me - the ghost - and in her arms- oh, God, she was holding something awful. A dead b- LUCILLE: Edith. You were mad to go down there! The mine is ill-lit and crawling with vermin... and you used my keys. And the lift. You see? It should…

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 51 are women's.

362 lines from women, 346 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

19 women and 18 men in the cast. 5 women and 9 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

A woman speaks the first line. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 24 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 48% of the words (4,269), men 52% (4,657). Women have 51% 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

2 of the 13 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 32% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Guillermo del Toro (man)
Written by: Matthew Robbins (man), Guillermo del Toro (man)
Produced by: Callum Greene (man), Thomas Tull (man), Guillermo del Toro (man), Jon Jashni (man)
Shot by: Dan Laustsen (man)
Edited by: Bernat Vilaplana (man)
Music by: Fernando Velázquez (man)
Production design by: Thomas E. Sanders (man)
Costumes by: Kate Hawley (woman)
Cast by: Robin D. Cook (woman)