Fails the Bechdel test
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
1986. Directed by Tom McLoughlin, written by Tom McLoughlin and Victor Miller and Sean S. Cunningham.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
2 / 3
Fails
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Yes
1. At least two women
10 women characters. 8 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.
The film
Tommy Jarvis returns to the graveyard to make sure Jason Voorhees is dead and accidentally brings him back to life. Now it's up to Tommy to stop Jason's mindless killing and put him back where he belongs.
- Released
- 01 Aug 1986
- Genres
- Horror, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 6 / 10
- Metascore
- 30 / 100
- Awards
- 2 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Sheriff 71 lines, man
- Megan 68 lines, woman
- Tommy 66 lines, man
- Paula 33 lines, woman
- Sissy 20 lines, woman
- Cort 18 lines, man
- Deputy 16 lines
- Darren 15 lines, man
- Jill 15 lines
- Nancy 15 lines, woman
Full cast, 28 people
- Thom Mathews as Tommy
- Jennifer Cooke as Megan
- David Kagen as Sheriff Garris
- Renée Jones as Sissy
- Kerry Noonan as Paula
- Darcy DeMoss as Nikki
- Tom Fridley as Cort
- Alan Blumenfeld as Larry
- Matthew Faison as Stan
- Ann Ryerson as Katie
- Tony Goldwyn as Darren
- Nancy McLoughlin as Lizbeth
- Ron Palillo as Allen Hawes
- C.J. Graham as Jason
- Vincent Guastaferro as Deputy Rick Cologne
- Michael Swan as Officer Pappas
- Courtney Vickery as Nancy
- Whitney Rydbeck as Roy
- Bob Larkin as Martin
- Wallace Merck as Burt
- Thomas Nowell as Tyen
- Justin Nowell as Billy
- Temi Epstein as Little Girl
- Taras O'Har as Little Boy
- Mike Nomad as Thornton
- Roger Rose as Steven
- Cynthia Kania as Annette
- Sheri Levinsky as Bus Monitor
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 4 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 10% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 157
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 5 to 8 | 0 | 7 |
| 9 to 12 | 0 | 25 |
| 13 to 16 | 25 | 40 |
| 17 to 20 | 12 | 7 |
| 21 to 24 | 4 | 7 |
| 25 to 28 | 0 | 1 |
| 29 to 32 | 0 | 2 |
| 33 to 36 | 6 | 17 |
| 37 to 40 | 0 | 2 |
| 41 to 44 | 28 | 0 |
| 45 to 48 | 0 | 1 |
| 49 to 52 | 0 | 9 |
| 53 to 56 | 0 | 3 |
| 57 to 60 | 8 | 8 |
| 61 to 64 | 2 | 0 |
| 65 to 68 | 3 | 2 |
| 69 to 72 | 0 | 6 |
| 73 to 76 | 10 | 4 |
| 77 to 80 | 2 | 1 |
| 81 to 84 | 0 | 5 |
| 85 to 88 | 1 | 5 |
| 89 to 92 | 3 | 2 |
| 93 to 96 | 22 | 16 |
| 97 to 100 | 11 | 6 |
| 101 to 104 | 4 | 3 |
| 105 to 108 | 0 | 5 |
| 109 to 112 | 3 | 3 |
| 113 to 116 | 1 | 6 |
| 117 to 120 | 4 | 3 |
| 121 to 124 | 4 | 3 |
| 125 to 128 | 3 | 5 |
| 129 to 132 | 1 | 3 |
| 133 to 136 | 0 | 4 |
| 137 to 140 | 1 | 0 |
| 141 to 144 | 0 | 1 |
| 145 to 148 | 0 | 0 |
| 149 to 152 | 2 | 0 |
| 153 to 156 | 0 | 6 |
| 157 to 157 | 0 | 0 |
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, 42 are women's.
160 lines from women, 222 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
10 women and 18 men in the cast. 8 women and 16 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 44 of 425.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 43 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 38% of the words (1,584), men 62% (2,585). Women have 42% 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
10
Two men
11
Exhibit E: behind the camera
1 of the 9 people in these jobs is a woman.
Across the whole crew, 24% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Tom McLoughlin (man)
- Written by
- Tom McLoughlin (man)
- Produced by
- Don Behrns (man)
- Shot by
- Jon Kranhouse (man)
- Edited by
- Bruce Green (man)
- Music by
- Harry Manfredini (man)
- Production design by
- Joseph T. Garrity (man)
- Cast by
- Pamela Basker (gender not listed), Fern Champion (woman)
The crew, department by department
-
Other crew
3 women, 5 men, 24 not listed
-
Costume & Make-Up
0 women, 7 men, 13 not listed
-
Sound
3 women, 9 men, 7 not listed
-
Production
6 women, 2 men, 7 not listed
-
Camera
0 women, 6 men, 7 not listed
-
Lighting
0 women, 5 men, 7 not listed
-
Art
0 women, 2 men, 6 not listed
-
Directing
1 women, 2 men, 2 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 26 on average. Men: 32 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Jennifer Cooke 21, Darcy DeMoss 22, Kerry Noonan 26, Renée Jones 27, Ann Ryerson 36
Men
Tom Fridley 21, Thom Mathews 27, Alan Blumenfeld 33, David Kagen 37, Matthew Faison 42
Exhibit G: the money
It made 6.5 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $3 million
- Box office
- $19.5 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 157 scenes and 425 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
