Passes the Bechdel test
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
1988. Directed by Tony Randel, written by Peter Atkins and Clive Barker.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
6 women characters. 4 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 6 scenes out of 119. -
Yes
3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.
Second opinion
Disagree bechdeltest.com readers give it 1 out of 3.
The film
Doctor Channard is sent a new patient, a girl warning of the terrible creatures that have destroyed her family, Cenobites who offer the most intense sensations of pleasure and pain. But Channard has been searching for the doorway to Hell for years, and Kirsty must follow him to save her father and witness the power struggles among the newly damned.
- Released
- 23 Dec 1988
- Genres
- Horror, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 6.4 / 10
- Metascore
- 41 / 100
- Awards
- 1 win & 6 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Kirsty 136 lines, woman
- Julia 54 lines, woman
- Malahide 51 lines, man
- Kyle 42 lines, man
- Pinhead 24 lines, man
- Frank 22 lines, man
- Ronson 18 lines, man
- Larry 14 lines, man
- Tiffany 7 lines, woman
- Female Cenobite 6 lines, woman
Full cast, 25 people
- Ashley Laurence as Kirsty Cotton
- Clare Higgins as Julia Cotton
- Kenneth Cranham as Dr. Philip Channard
- Imogen Boorman as Tiffany
- William Hope as Kyle MacRae
- Sean Chapman as Frank Cotton
- Doug Bradley as Pinhead
- Barbie Wilde as Female Cenobite
- Simon Bamford as ‘Butterball’ Cenobite
- Nicholas Vince as Chatterer Cenobite
- Oliver Smith as Frank the Monster
- Angus MacInnes as Detective Ronson
- Ron Travis as Workman 1
- Oliver Parker as Workman 2
- Catherine Chevalier as Tiffany's Mother
- Deborah Joel as Skinless Julia
- James Tillitt as Officer Cortez
- Bradley Lavelle as Officer Kucich
- Edwin Craig as Wheelchair Patient
- Andrew Robinson as Larry Cotton
- Robert Hines as Steve
- Michael Cassidy as 3rd Victim
- Anthony Allen as 1st Victim
- Grace Kirby as Female Cenobite
- Kevin Cole as The Chatterer - Human Form
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 3% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 119
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 to 6 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 to 9 | 7 | 15 |
| 10 to 12 | 1 | 4 |
| 13 to 15 | 5 | 17 |
| 16 to 18 | 6 | 7 |
| 19 to 21 | 0 | 1 |
| 22 to 24 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 to 27 | 5 | 6 |
| 28 to 30 | 0 | 3 |
| 31 to 33 | 5 | 5 |
| 34 to 36 | 2 | 4 |
| 37 to 39 | 0 | 2 |
| 40 to 42 | 0 | 1 |
| 43 to 45 | 0 | 1 |
| 46 to 48 | 0 | 1 |
| 49 to 51 | 6 | 2 |
| 52 to 54 | 0 | 0 |
| 55 to 57 | 5 | 2 |
| 58 to 60 | 5 | 3 |
| 61 to 63 | 17 | 19 |
| 64 to 66 | 9 | 5 |
| 67 to 69 | 11 | 1 |
| 70 to 72 | 0 | 0 |
| 73 to 75 | 4 | 4 |
| 76 to 78 | 1 | 5 |
| 79 to 81 | 8 | 0 |
| 82 to 84 | 12 | 9 |
| 85 to 87 | 5 | 1 |
| 88 to 90 | 16 | 13 |
| 91 to 93 | 3 | 4 |
| 94 to 96 | 9 | 14 |
| 97 to 99 | 8 | 8 |
| 100 to 102 | 14 | 3 |
| 103 to 105 | 5 | 0 |
| 106 to 108 | 4 | 0 |
| 109 to 111 | 3 | 2 |
| 112 to 114 | 13 | 12 |
| 115 to 117 | 10 | 5 |
| 118 to 119 | 5 | 1 |
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.
KIRSTY: No! You... You can't! It wasn't me...I didn't do it! I didn't open the box! FEMALE CENOBITE: Didn't open the box. And what was it last time? Didn't know what the box was. And yet we DO keep finding each other, don't we?
FEMALE CENOBITE: Perhaps you're teasing us. Are you teasing us? KIRSTY: But I didn't open it! I didn't!
KIRSTY: It's you! You HAVEN'T always been as you are. You were HUMAN. Remember. Remember all your confusions. Think! FEMALE CENOBITE: Enough!
TIFFANY: I have to go back. Or it'll never stop. KIRSTY: What are you talking... TIFFANY: I've got to finish it. KIRSTY: Finish what?
KIRSTY: Oh, gross. KIRSTY: What are you doing? What are WE doing? TIFFANY: I can't do it here. I have to go to it.
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 53 are women's.
204 lines from women, 181 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
6 women and 16 men in the cast. 4 women and 10 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 6 of 397.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 10 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 47% of the words (1,353), men 53% (1,548). Women have 53% 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
9
Two men
9
Exhibit F: behind the camera
2 of the 11 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 5% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Tony Randel (man)
- Written by
- Peter Atkins (man)
- Story by
- Clive Barker (man)
- Produced by
- Christopher Figg (man)
- Shot by
- Robin Vidgeon (man)
- Edited by
- Richard Marden (man), Tony Randel (man)
- Music by
- Christopher Young (man)
- Production design by
- Michael Buchanan (man)
- Costumes by
- Jane Wildgoose (woman)
- Cast by
- Doreen Jones (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Other crew
0 women, 11 men, 26 not listed
-
Sound
0 women, 6 men, 3 not listed
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Art
0 women, 3 men, 5 not listed
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Production
1 women, 4 men, 2 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
1 women, 0 men, 5 not listed
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Directing
0 women, 3 men, 3 not listed
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Lighting
0 women, 0 men, 6 not listed
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Camera
0 women, 2 men, 2 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 25 on average. Men: 33 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Imogen Boorman 17, Ashley Laurence 22, Barbie Wilde 28, Clare Higgins 33
Men
Sean Chapman 27, Simon Bamford 27, William Hope 33, Doug Bradley 34, Kenneth Cranham 44
Exhibit H: the money
It made 4.0 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $3 million
- Box office
- $12.1 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 119 scenes and 397 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
