Passes the Bechdel test

House of 1000 Corpses

Name: House of 1000 Corpses
Released: 2003

2003. Directed by Rob Zombie, written by Rob Zombie.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
5 women characters. 2 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 8 scenes out of 131.
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

On the eve of Halloween, on October 1977, four friends--Bill, Jerry, Mary, and Denise--embark on an exciting cross-country road trip to write a guidebook about offbeat roadside attractions in America's less-travelled roads. Before long, the young explorers chance upon Captain Spaulding's Museum of Monsters and Madmen, only to become infatuated with the local legend of a deranged serial-killer doctor, and cross paths with the mysterious hitchhiker, Baby. However, when the unsuspecting group meets Baby's eccentric family after having a flat tyre, an endless night of terror, torture, and murder ensues. Has anyone ever got out alive from the House of Thousand Corpses?

Released: 11 Apr 2003
Genres: Horror
Rated: R
IMDb: 6 / 10
Metascore: 31 / 100
Awards: 4 wins & 8 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

Women
Men
Not in the cast list
Bigger name, more lines

Jerry 114 lines, man
Bill 99 lines, man
Denise 91 lines, woman
Mary 89 lines, woman
Baby 79 lines, woman
Mother 62 lines, woman
Capt. Spaulding 53 lines, man
Otis 47 lines, man
Wydell 46 lines, man
Naish 36 lines, man

Full cast, 28 people

Sid Haig as Captain Spaulding
Bill Moseley as Otis B. Driftwood
Sheri Moon Zombie as Baby Firefly
Karen Black as Mother Firefly
Erin Daniels as Denise Willis
Chris Hardwick as Jerry Goldsmith
Rainn Wilson as Bill Hudley
Jennifer Jostyn as Mary Knowles
Tom Towles as Lieutenant George Wydell
Walton Goggins as Deputy Steve Naish
Matthew McGrory as Tiny Firefly
Robert Allen Mukes as Rufus 'RJ' Firefly Jr.
Dennis Fimple as Grandpa Hugo Firefly
Jake McKinnon as Rufus 'Earl' Firefly Sr.
Harrison Young as Don Willis
Irwin Keyes as Ravelli
Michael J. Pollard as Stucky
Chad Bannon as Killer Karl
William Bassett as Sheriff Frank Huston
David Reynolds as Richard 'Little Dick' Wick
Joe Dobbs III as Gerry Ober
Judith Drake as Skunk Ape Wife
Gregg Gibbs as Dr. Wolfenstein
Ken Johnson as Skunk Ape Husband
Irvin Mosley Jr. as Lewis Dover
Tom Towles as George Wydell
Walter Phelan as Dr. Satan
Rob Zombie as Dr. Wolfenstein's assistant (uncredited)

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 131

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	2	0
4 to 6	0	34
7 to 9	0	1
10 to 12	0	14
13 to 15	0	30
16 to 18	11	32
19 to 21	17	14
22 to 24	0	1
25 to 27	2	1
28 to 30	1	2
31 to 33	2	5
34 to 36	8	7
37 to 39	27	26
40 to 42	1	2
43 to 45	13	13
46 to 48	28	22
49 to 51	19	14
52 to 54	30	16
55 to 57	38	14
58 to 60	18	10
61 to 63	9	23
64 to 66	28	21
67 to 69	6	5
70 to 72	0	4
73 to 75	8	16
76 to 78	1	22
79 to 81	0	13
82 to 84	9	1
85 to 87	0	21
88 to 90	2	26
91 to 93	0	14
94 to 96	0	0
97 to 99	10	20
100 to 102	1	14
103 to 105	28	33
106 to 108	5	4
109 to 111	0	0
112 to 114	2	0
115 to 117	0	0
118 to 120	0	0
121 to 123	0	0
124 to 126	0	0
127 to 129	0	0
130 to 131	3	2

The evidence

Straight from the script
Counted from the script and the credits

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Exhibit A: the passing scenes

The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.

DENISE: Come on sleeping beauty, time to go to work. MARY: Sleeping. DENISE: Rise and shine. MARY: No please, let me sit this one out.

DENISE: I don't want to see that. MARY: How about if we skip it and just hang out here. I can get some great shots of this stuff.

MARY: Huh? DENISE: Ugh, what's that smell?

DENISE: That seems likely. MARY: Should we stop?

MARY: She looks like a freak. DENISE: Stick her in the front, if you want to pick her up so bad. She's soaked. MARY: She looks like she stinks.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 40 are women's.

329 lines from women, 497 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

5 women and 22 men in the cast. 2 women and 12 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

A woman speaks the first line. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 91 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 34% of the words (3,189), men 66% (6,122). Women have 40% 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

Two men

Exhibit F: behind the camera

2 of the 14 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 25% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Rob Zombie (man)
Written by: Rob Zombie (man)
Produced by: Andy Gould (man)
Shot by: Alex Poppas (man), Tom Richmond (man)
Edited by: Kathryn Himoff (woman), Sean K. Lambert (man), Robert K. Lambert (man)
Music by: Rob Zombie (man), Scott Humphrey (man)
Production design by: Gregg Gibbs (man)
Costumes by: Amanda Friedland (woman)
Cast by: Dean E. Fronk (man), Donald Paul Pemrick (man)