Fails the Bechdel test
Frankenstein
2025. Directed by Guillermo del Toro, written by Guillermo del Toro and Mary Shelley.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
1 / 3
Fails
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Yes
1. At least two women
6 women characters. 3 of them speak. -
No
2. Who talk to each other
Our parser found no scene where two women talk to each other. -
No
3. About something besides a man
Not reached: the film fails an earlier rule.
Second opinion
Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 1 out of 3.
The film
Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley's classic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
- Released
- 07 Nov 2025
- Genres
- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 7.4 / 10
- Metascore
- 78 / 100
- Awards
- Won 3 Oscars. 93 wins & 285 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Victor 264 lines, man
- Creature 98 lines, man
- Harlander 92 lines, man
- Elizabeth 71 lines, woman
- William 45 lines, man
- Blind Man 34 lines, man
- Captain Anderson 34 lines, man
- Leopold 19 lines, man
- Young Victor 15 lines, man
- Chief Officer Larsen 10 lines, man
Full cast, 54 people
- Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein
- Jacob Elordi as The Creature
- Christoph Waltz as Harlander
- Mia Goth as Elizabeth / Claire Frankenstein
- Felix Kammerer as William Frankenstein
- Charles Dance as Leopold Frankenstein
- David Bradley as Blind Man
- Lars Mikkelsen as Captain Anderson
- Christian Convery as Young Victor Frankenstein
- Nikolaj Lie Kaas as Chief Officer Larsen
- Kyle Gatehouse as Young Hunter
- Lauren Collins as Hunter's Wife
- Sofia Galasso as Anna-Maria
- Joachim Fjelstrup as Dr. Udsen
- Ralph Ineson as Professor Krempe
- Peter Millard as Professor Stokeld
- Peter MacNeill as Professor Maurus
- Burn Gorman as Executioner
- Sean Sullivan as Old Hunter #1
- Stuart Hughes as Old Hunter #2
- Gord Rand as Silversmith
- Kenton Craig as Harlander's Butler
- Val Ovtcharov as Outpost Clerk
- Anders Yates as Torfussen
- Adam Brown as Prisoner #1
- Santiago Segura as Prisoner #2
- Dexter Stokes-Mellor as Prisoner #3
- Shian Denovan as Nymph
- Mark Steger as Spinal Corpse
- Rafe Harwood as Young William Frankenstein
- Gregory Mann as Head Urchin
- Roberto Campanella as Dark Angel
- Rebecca Lawson-Turner as Woman in Confessional
- Warren Albert as Professor Kugelmann
- Kim Morgan as Guest at Wedding and Bistro
- Chris Andrews as Bistro Dancer
- Lewis Landini as Bistro Dancer
- William John Banks as Bistro Dancer
- Tess Letham as Bistro Dancer
- Alexandros Beshonges as Bistro Dancer
- Maria Peneva as Bistro Dancer
- Kieran Brown as Bistro Dancer
- Jessica Roberts Smith as Bistro Dancer
- Rachel Elderkin as Bistro Dancer
- Jennifer Steele as Bistro Dancer
- Jorja Follina as Bistro Dancer
- Malcolm Sutherland as Bistro Dancer
- Alex Henderson as Bistro Dancer
- Luke Watson as Bistro Dancer
- Yasmin Hepburn as Bistro Dancer
- Pawel Wieczorek as Bistro Dancer
- Frank Meschkuleit as Additional Performances (puppeteer)
- Matthew Barr as Museum Bookshop Patron
- Luca Mehta as Student (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 5 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 1% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 229
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 5 | 0 | 11 |
| 6 to 10 | 0 | 19 |
| 11 to 15 | 2 | 24 |
| 16 to 20 | 2 | 28 |
| 21 to 25 | 0 | 17 |
| 26 to 30 | 0 | 7 |
| 31 to 35 | 0 | 6 |
| 36 to 40 | 1 | 66 |
| 41 to 45 | 11 | 59 |
| 46 to 50 | 0 | 18 |
| 51 to 55 | 0 | 16 |
| 56 to 60 | 23 | 28 |
| 61 to 65 | 1 | 12 |
| 66 to 70 | 0 | 15 |
| 71 to 75 | 9 | 24 |
| 76 to 80 | 0 | 2 |
| 81 to 85 | 0 | 39 |
| 86 to 90 | 0 | 0 |
| 91 to 95 | 0 | 0 |
| 96 to 100 | 0 | 0 |
| 101 to 105 | 1 | 15 |
| 106 to 110 | 1 | 20 |
| 111 to 115 | 7 | 16 |
| 116 to 120 | 10 | 27 |
| 121 to 125 | 2 | 6 |
| 126 to 130 | 1 | 2 |
| 131 to 135 | 0 | 1 |
| 136 to 140 | 1 | 7 |
| 141 to 145 | 0 | 3 |
| 146 to 150 | 0 | 1 |
| 151 to 155 | 0 | 3 |
| 156 to 160 | 3 | 9 |
| 161 to 165 | 2 | 7 |
| 166 to 170 | 2 | 3 |
| 171 to 175 | 3 | 1 |
| 176 to 180 | 0 | 2 |
| 181 to 185 | 0 | 26 |
| 186 to 190 | 0 | 4 |
| 191 to 195 | 0 | 27 |
| 196 to 200 | 0 | 9 |
| 201 to 205 | 0 | 14 |
| 206 to 210 | 3 | 17 |
| 211 to 215 | 3 | 11 |
| 216 to 220 | 0 | 7 |
| 221 to 225 | 0 | 14 |
| 226 to 229 | 0 | 18 |
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, 12 are women's.
88 lines from women, 661 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
6 women and 31 men in the cast. 3 women and 22 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 55 of 755.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 114 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 12% of the words (1,236), men 88% (9,389).
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
0
Two men
63
Exhibit E: behind the camera
4 of the 12 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 24% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Guillermo del Toro (man)
- Written by
- Guillermo del Toro (man)
- From the novel by
- Mary Shelley (woman)
- Produced by
- J. Miles Dale (man), Guillermo del Toro (man), Scott Stuber (man)
- Shot by
- Dan Laustsen (man)
- Edited by
- Evan Schiff (man)
- Music by
- Alexandre Desplat (man)
- Production design by
- Tamara Deverell (woman)
- Costumes by
- Kate Hawley (woman)
- Cast by
- Robin D. Cook (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Other crew
8 women, 57 men, 1 non-binary, 22 not listed
-
Art
5 women, 10 men, 24 not listed
-
Sound
6 women, 26 men, 2 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
8 women, 3 men, 9 not listed
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Production
5 women, 5 men, 5 not listed
-
Visual Effects
1 women, 7 men, 4 not listed
-
Directing
1 women, 2 men, 2 not listed
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Camera
0 women, 3 men
- Women
- Men
- Non-binary
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 31 on average. Men: 51 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Mia Goth 31
Men
Christian Convery 15, Jacob Elordi 28, Felix Kammerer 30, Oscar Isaac 46, Nikolaj Lie Kaas 52, Lars Mikkelsen 61, Christoph Waltz 69, Charles Dance 79, David Bradley 83
Exhibit G: the money
It made 0% of what it cost.
- Budget
- $120 million
- Box office
- $480,678
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 229 scenes and 755 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
