Passes the Bechdel test
Hellraiser: Deader
2005. Directed by Rick Bota, written by Clive Barker (based on characters created by) and Neal Marshall Stevens and Tim Day.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
5 women characters. 2 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 60. -
Yes
3. About something besides a man
In that scene, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.
Second opinion
Not rated bechdeltest.com readers haven't rated this film.
The film
In London, after investigating crack addicted junkies for an article in her newspaper, the journalist Amy Klein watches a bizarre videotape. Her editor Charles Richmond received the footage of an underground group of youngsters in Bucharest apparently becoming zombies through the power of their leader Winter from a member, Marla, and invites Amy to prepare the story. Amy accepts the challenge, and once in Romania, she finds Marla dead with a puzzle cube in her hands. She brings the object to her hotel room, and opens it, beginning her journey to hell.
- Released
- 07 Jun 2005
- Genres
- Horror, Mystery, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 4.5 / 10
- Awards
- 1 nomination.
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Amy 173 lines, woman
- Charles 77 lines, man
- Marla 43 lines, woman
- Winter 41 lines, man
- Pinhead 29 lines, man
- Joey 28 lines, man
- Katya 9 lines
- Cop 7 lines, woman
- Manager 7 lines
- My 6 lines
Full cast, 11 people
- Kari Wührer as Amy Klein
- Paul Rhys as Winter
- Simon Kunz as Charles Richmond
- Marc Warren as Joey
- Georgina Rylance as Marla
- Maria Pintea as Young Amy
- Doug Bradley as Pinhead
- Ionut Chermenski as Group Leader
- Mădălina Constantin as Anna
- Ioana Abur as Katia
- Catalina Alexandru as Cenobite's Victim
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 2 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 12% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 60
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 to 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 to 6 | 4 | 0 |
| 7 to 8 | 32 | 37 |
| 9 to 10 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 to 12 | 8 | 0 |
| 13 to 14 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 to 16 | 14 | 9 |
| 17 to 18 | 4 | 0 |
| 19 to 20 | 14 | 18 |
| 21 to 22 | 16 | 4 |
| 23 to 24 | 8 | 10 |
| 25 to 26 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 to 28 | 17 | 17 |
| 29 to 30 | 0 | 1 |
| 31 to 32 | 0 | 1 |
| 33 to 34 | 5 | 5 |
| 35 to 36 | 8 | 7 |
| 37 to 38 | 0 | 0 |
| 39 to 40 | 13 | 10 |
| 41 to 42 | 0 | 0 |
| 43 to 44 | 0 | 0 |
| 45 to 46 | 33 | 12 |
| 47 to 48 | 41 | 14 |
| 49 to 50 | 1 | 0 |
| 51 to 52 | 0 | 0 |
| 53 to 54 | 0 | 0 |
| 55 to 56 | 1 | 0 |
| 57 to 58 | 0 | 0 |
| 59 to 60 | 14 | 34 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
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Exhibit A: the passing scene
The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
MARLA: Those you trust the most -- trust the least. AMY: Don't open it. Right. AMY: Yeah...
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 57 are women's.
233 lines from women, 179 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
5 women and 4 men in the cast. 2 women and 5 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 6 of 467.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 17 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 41% of the words (2,130), men 59% (3,074). Women have 57% 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
3
Exhibit F: behind the camera
4 of the 13 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 20% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Rick Bota (man)
- Written by
- Tim Day (man), Neal Marshall Stevens (man)
- Produced by
- Stan Winston (man), Ron Schmidt (man)
- Shot by
- Vivi Drăgan Vasile (man)
- Edited by
- Anthony Adler (man)
- Music by
- Henning Lohner (man)
- Production design by
- Christian Niculescu (man)
- Costumes by
- Oana Păunescu (woman)
- Cast by
- Carrie Hilton (woman), Karen Meisels (woman), Adrienne Stern (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Production
3 women, 4 men
-
Art
0 women, 3 men
-
Writing
0 women, 3 men
-
Costume & Make-Up
1 women, 1 men
-
Directing
0 women, 1 men, 1 not listed
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Sound
0 women, 2 men
-
Camera
0 women, 1 men
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Editing
0 women, 1 men
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 31 on average. Men: 43 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Georgina Rylance 26, Mădălina Constantin 26, Ioana Abur 35, Kari Wührer 38
Men
Marc Warren 38, Paul Rhys 41, Simon Kunz 42, Doug Bradley 50
Exhibit H: the money
What it cost and made, where TMDB lists it.
- Budget
- $4 million
- Box office
- Not listed
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 60 scenes and 467 lines of dialogue. How the test works
