Passes the Bechdel test

Knock at the Cabin

Name: Knock at the Cabin
Released: 2023

2023. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan, written by Paul Tremblay and M. Night Shyamalan and Steve Desmond.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
9 women characters. 3 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 4 scenes out of 47.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

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The film

From visionary filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan comes a thriller about a tight-knit family who are taken hostage by four armed strangers while vacationing at a remote cabin. The visitors, led by Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy), demand that the young girl and her parents make an unthinkable choice: to save their family or save humanity.

Released: 03 Feb 2023
Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Rated: R
IMDb: 6.1 / 10
Metascore: 63 / 100
Awards: 12 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Andrew 190 lines, man
Leonard 174 lines, man
Eric 129 lines, man
Sabrina 72 lines, woman
Wen 65 lines, woman
Adriane 53 lines, woman
Redmond 21 lines, man
News Anchor 11 lines
On Screen 8 lines, man
Manuel 7 lines

Full cast, 24 people

Dave Bautista as Leonard
Jonathan Groff as Eric
Ben Aldridge as Andrew
Nikki Amuka-Bird as Sabrina
Rupert Grint as Redmond
Abby Quinn as Adriane
Kristen Cui as Wen
McKenna Kerrigan as Andrew's Mom
Ian Merrill Peakes as Andrew's Father
Denise Nakano as TV Newscaster #1
Rose Luardo as PWTC Spokeswoman
Billy Vargus as Seismologist
Satomi Hofmann as TV Newscaster #2
Kevin Leung as Man with Child on TV
Lee Avant as TV News Anchor #3
Odera Adimorah as International TV News Anchor
Kat Murphy as Scottish Female Doctor
Kittson O'Neill as BBC Anchor
Lya Yanne as Adoption Center Employee
M. Night Shyamalan as Infomercial Host
Clare Louise Frost as Infomercial Co-Host
Hanna Gaffney as Waitress
Monica Fleurette as Woman in Diner
Saria Chen as Adult Wen

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 1 scene, 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 47

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 1	2	0
2 to 2	26	36
3 to 3	0	0
4 to 4	2	2
5 to 5	15	55
6 to 6	0	0
7 to 7	0	1
8 to 8	0	2
9 to 9	0	0
10 to 10	0	0
11 to 11	3	22
12 to 12	0	12
13 to 13	6	66
14 to 14	18	10
15 to 15	15	72
16 to 16	0	1
17 to 17	0	7
18 to 18	0	0
19 to 19	0	2
20 to 20	0	1
21 to 21	1	2
22 to 22	0	0
23 to 23	11	25
24 to 24	0	0
25 to 25	6	8
26 to 26	1	0
27 to 27	7	0
28 to 28	1	0
29 to 29	0	0
30 to 30	12	2
31 to 31	0	0
32 to 32	17	21
33 to 33	0	2
34 to 34	0	0
35 to 35	0	0
36 to 36	0	0
37 to 37	16	21
38 to 38	1	7
39 to 39	6	5
40 to 40	0	15
41 to 41	0	0
42 to 42	0	1
43 to 43	0	2
44 to 44	0	1
45 to 45	15	83
46 to 46	0	0
47 to 47	9	52

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.

SABRINA: Hi... I'm Sabrina. I'm a post-op nurse from Southern California. ADRIANE: I'm, uh, I'm Adriane. I'm a cook at a Mexican joint in DC.

SABRINA: No, no, no... WEN: I thought it wasn't real.

ADRIANE: Holy shit... This is what I saw! SABRINA: Me too...

ADRIANE: That's pretty easy to say when you're not the next one in line to get her head split open. SABRINA: They think we're nuts. Hell, I'm starting to think we're nuts too.

SABRINA: Adriane, stop! ADRIANE: Stay back! Stay back or I'll slice her up!

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 26 are women's.

190 lines from women, 536 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

9 women and 8 men in the cast. 3 women and 7 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 43 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 26% of the words (2,294), men 74% (6,443).

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

3 of the 14 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 22% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan (man)
Written by: M. Night Shyamalan (man), Steve Desmond (man), Michael Sherman (man)
Produced by: M. Night Shyamalan (man), Ashwin Rajan (man), Marc Bienstock (man)
Shot by: Jarin Blaschke (man), Lowell A. Meyer (man)
Edited by: Noëmi Preiswerk (woman)
Music by: Herdís Stefánsdóttir (woman)
Production design by: Naaman Marshall (gender not listed)
Costumes by: Caroline Duncan (woman)
Cast by: Douglas Aibel (man)