Fails the Bechdel test
I Spit on Your Grave
2010. Directed by Steven R. Monroe, written by Adam Rockoff and Meir Zarchi.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
2 / 3
Fails
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Yes
1. At least two women
4 women characters. 4 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
Not rated bechdeltest.com readers haven't rated this film.
The film
The writer Jennifer Hills rents an isolated lakeside cabin in the woods of the peaceful Mockingbird Trail for two months to write a novel. Two days later, she is brutally gang raped by three local bigots, the sheriff and a handyman. Jennifer returns later to revenge against the rapists.
- Released
- 17 Jun 2010
- Genres
- Horror, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 6.2 / 10
- Metascore
- 27 / 100
- Awards
- 3 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Jennifer 136 lines, woman
- Johnny 111 lines, man
- Sheriff Storch 85 lines, man
- Stanley 69 lines, man
- Andy 66 lines, man
- Earl 23 lines, man
- Matthew 22 lines, man
- Chastity 5 lines, woman
- Stanely 3 lines
- Blam 2 lines
Full cast, 11 people
- Sarah Butler as Jennifer Hills
- Jeff Branson as John 'Johnny' Miller
- Tracey Walter as Earl
- Andrew Howard as Sheriff Storch
- Chad Lindberg as Matthew
- Rodney Eastman as Andy
- Daniel Franzese as Stanley
- Mollie Milligan as Mrs. Storch
- Saxon Sharbino as Chastity Storch
- Amber Dawn Landrum as Girl at Gas Station
- Michelle Tonjes as Girl in Truck (uncredited)
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 98
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 to 6 | 8 | 7 |
| 7 to 9 | 9 | 14 |
| 10 to 12 | 5 | 0 |
| 13 to 15 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 to 18 | 1 | 0 |
| 19 to 21 | 9 | 7 |
| 22 to 24 | 0 | 47 |
| 25 to 27 | 1 | 0 |
| 28 to 30 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 to 33 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 to 36 | 26 | 50 |
| 37 to 39 | 8 | 7 |
| 40 to 42 | 4 | 31 |
| 43 to 45 | 0 | 19 |
| 46 to 48 | 2 | 18 |
| 49 to 51 | 0 | 13 |
| 52 to 54 | 1 | 13 |
| 55 to 57 | 0 | 12 |
| 58 to 60 | 0 | 38 |
| 61 to 63 | 0 | 2 |
| 64 to 66 | 0 | 27 |
| 67 to 69 | 11 | 14 |
| 70 to 72 | 0 | 12 |
| 73 to 75 | 0 | 9 |
| 76 to 78 | 25 | 13 |
| 79 to 81 | 15 | 6 |
| 82 to 84 | 0 | 2 |
| 85 to 87 | 7 | 10 |
| 88 to 90 | 7 | 4 |
| 91 to 93 | 3 | 1 |
| 94 to 96 | 0 | 2 |
| 97 to 98 | 1 | 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, 27 are women's.
143 lines from women, 378 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
4 women and 6 men in the cast. 4 women and 8 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 2 of 545.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 83 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 30% of the words (2,919), men 70% (6,831). Women have 27% of the lines, so their lines run longer 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
1
Two men
29
Exhibit E: behind the camera
4 of the 12 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 32% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Steven R. Monroe (man)
- Written by
- Adam Rockoff (man)
- Produced by
- Paul Hertzberg (man), Lisa M. Hansen (woman)
- Shot by
- Neil Lisk (man)
- Edited by
- Daniel Duncan (man)
- Music by
- Corey Allen Jackson (gender not listed)
- Production design by
- Dins Danielsen (man)
- Costumes by
- Bonnie Stauch (woman)
- Cast by
- Danny Roth (man), Penny Perry (woman), Amy Reece (woman)
The crew, department by department
-
Production
4 women, 8 men, 2 not listed
-
Costume & Make-Up
1 women, 1 men, 3 not listed
-
Other crew
2 women, 1 men, 1 not listed
-
Sound
0 women, 0 men, 3 not listed
-
Art
1 women, 1 men
-
Directing
0 women, 2 men
-
Writing
0 women, 2 men
-
Camera
0 women, 1 men
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 24 on average. Men: 41 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Saxon Sharbino 11, Sarah Butler 25, Amber Dawn Landrum 25, Mollie Milligan 34
Men
Daniel Franzese 32, Jeff Branson 33, Chad Lindberg 33, Andrew Howard 41, Rodney Eastman 42, Tracey Walter 62
Exhibit G: the money
It made 64% of what it cost.
- Budget
- $2 million
- Box office
- $1.3 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 98 scenes and 545 lines of dialogue. How the test works
