Passes the Bechdel test
Friday the 13th
1980. Directed by Sean S. Cunningham, written by Victor Miller and Ron Kurz.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
9 women characters. 12 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 7 scenes out of 136. -
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
Camp Crystal Lake sits dormant, haunted by drowning and double murder. A fresh crew of counselors arrives to resurrect it, optimistic, oblivious, and working against a clock they cannot see. Someone is watching from the treeline. The killings begin quietly, one counselor at a time pulled from the periphery, while the storm rolls in and the phones go dead. What started as a summer job collapses into a siege. Alice, the last one standing, finds herself not just fighting for survival but confronting the grief of a mother the world forgot to mourn.
- Released
- 09 May 1980
- Genres
- Horror, Mystery, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 6.3 / 10
- Metascore
- 22 / 100
- Awards
- 6 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Alice 89 lines, woman
- Bill 55 lines, man
- Marcie 47 lines, woman
- Ned 40 lines, man
- Jack 39 lines, man
- Steve 32 lines, man
- Brenda 25 lines, woman
- Mrs. Voorhees 19 lines, woman
- Annie 12 lines, woman
- Barry 9 lines, man
Full cast, 20 people
- Adrienne King as Alice
- Jeannine Taylor as Marcie
- Robbi Morgan as Annie
- Kevin Bacon as Jack
- Betsy Palmer as Mrs. Voorhees
- Harry Crosby as Bill
- Laurie Bartram as Brenda
- Mark Nelson as Ned
- Peter Brouwer as Steve Christy
- Rex Everhart as Truck Driver
- Ronn Carroll as Sgt. Tierney
- Ron Millkie as Officer Dorf
- Walt Gorney as Crazy Ralph
- Willie Adams as Barry
- Debra S. Hayes as Claudette
- Dorothy Kobs as Trudy
- Sally Anne Golden as Sandy
- Mary Rocco as Operator
- Ken L. Parker as Doctor
- Ari Lehman as Jason
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 136
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 to 6 | 4 | 3 |
| 7 to 9 | 14 | 11 |
| 10 to 12 | 2 | 6 |
| 13 to 15 | 2 | 1 |
| 16 to 18 | 3 | 0 |
| 19 to 21 | 2 | 0 |
| 22 to 24 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 to 27 | 4 | 8 |
| 28 to 30 | 1 | 1 |
| 31 to 33 | 7 | 16 |
| 34 to 36 | 7 | 10 |
| 37 to 39 | 5 | 9 |
| 40 to 42 | 6 | 7 |
| 43 to 45 | 5 | 6 |
| 46 to 48 | 7 | 6 |
| 49 to 51 | 4 | 2 |
| 52 to 54 | 3 | 3 |
| 55 to 57 | 6 | 2 |
| 58 to 60 | 9 | 19 |
| 61 to 63 | 16 | 32 |
| 64 to 66 | 15 | 14 |
| 67 to 69 | 8 | 5 |
| 70 to 72 | 6 | 0 |
| 73 to 75 | 9 | 6 |
| 76 to 78 | 7 | 2 |
| 79 to 81 | 3 | 2 |
| 82 to 84 | 0 | 4 |
| 85 to 87 | 1 | 0 |
| 88 to 90 | 5 | 0 |
| 91 to 93 | 0 | 0 |
| 94 to 96 | 6 | 14 |
| 97 to 99 | 3 | 0 |
| 100 to 102 | 3 | 3 |
| 103 to 105 | 4 | 6 |
| 106 to 108 | 0 | 1 |
| 109 to 111 | 0 | 1 |
| 112 to 114 | 3 | 0 |
| 115 to 117 | 4 | 0 |
| 118 to 120 | 32 | 1 |
| 121 to 123 | 1 | 3 |
| 124 to 126 | 1 | 0 |
| 127 to 129 | 0 | 0 |
| 130 to 132 | 1 | 2 |
| 133 to 135 | 1 | 2 |
| 136 to 136 | 0 | 0 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
Tap an exhibit to open it.
Exhibit A: the passing scenes
The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
TRUDY: I musta seen that Kojak 82 times. ANNIE: Excuse me. How far is Camp Crystal Lake?
ANNIE: Can I get a bus or something? TRUDY: Not likely. Sam? You goin' out to the crossroads? TRUDY: Give her a lift? That's hallway.
BRENDA: Dancer. MARCIE: Cowboy.
ALICE: What'd you see? BRENDA: I don't know. Marcie's got me paranoid.
ALICE: I don't know. MARCIE: Pistachio, fudge ripple, creme de menthe and I are going back to work.
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 51 are women's.
220 lines from women, 208 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
9 women and 11 men in the cast. 12 women and 10 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 2 of 447.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 20 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 50% of the words (1,639), men 50% (1,659). 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
12
Two men
22
Exhibit F: behind the camera
2 of the 10 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 24% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Sean S. Cunningham (man)
- Written by
- Victor Miller (man)
- Produced by
- Sean S. Cunningham (man)
- Shot by
- Barry Abrams (man)
- Edited by
- Bill Freda (man)
- Music by
- Harry Manfredini (man)
- Production design by
- Virginia Field (woman)
- Costumes by
- Caron Coplan (gender not listed)
- Cast by
- Julie Hughes (woman), Barry Moss (man)
The crew, department by department
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Production
3 women, 7 men, 2 not listed
-
Camera
0 women, 4 men, 6 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
1 women, 2 men, 5 not listed
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Art
2 women, 0 men, 4 not listed
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Other crew
0 women, 3 men, 3 not listed
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Sound
1 women, 4 men, 1 not listed
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Lighting
0 women, 1 men, 4 not listed
-
Directing
0 women, 2 men, 2 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 27 on average. Men: 32 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Robbi Morgan 18, Adrienne King 19, Laurie Bartram 21, Jeannine Taylor 25, Betsy Palmer 53
Men
Kevin Bacon 21, Harry Crosby 21, Mark Nelson 24, Peter Brouwer 34, Rex Everhart 59
Exhibit H: the money
It made 72.6 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $550,000
- Box office
- $39.9 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 136 scenes and 447 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
