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Martyrs

2016. Directed by Kevin Goetz and Michael Goetz, written by Mark L. Smith and Pascal Laugier.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

  1. Yes 1. At least two women
    9 women characters. 5 of them speak.
  2. Yes 2. Who talk to each other
    In 15 scenes out of 135.
  3. 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.

Poster for Martyrs

The film

Anna rushes to help her friend Lucy, who was viciously abused as a young child, clean up the aftermath of the revenge she visited upon her abductors 15 years later. Was Lucy the only victim? Are they alone in this idyllic home? What nightmares lie beneath the tranquil facade of this house of horror? In search of the truth they uncover a sadistic cult organization determined to make a Martyr of each subject rather than a simple victim.

Released
22 Jan 2016
Genres
Drama, Horror, Thriller
Rated
Not Rated
IMDb
4 / 10
Metascore
22 / 100
Awards
1 nomination total
Elsewhere
View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

  • Women
  • Men
  • Not in the cast list
  • Bigger name, more lines
  1. Anna 159 lines, woman
  2. Lucie 80 lines, woman
  3. Eleanor 46 lines, woman
  4. Man 19 lines, man
  5. Mother 15 lines, woman
  6. Detective 9 lines, man
  7. Young Lucie 8 lines, woman
  8. Young Anna 7 lines, woman
  9. Boy 6 lines, man
  10. Priest 6 lines, man
Full cast, 19 people
  • Troian Bellisario as Lucie
  • Bailey Noble as Anna
  • Kate Burton as Eleanor
  • Caitlin Carmichael as Sam
  • Melissa Tracy as The Creature
  • Romy Rosemont as Mom
  • Toby Huss as Fenton
  • Elyse Cole as Young Anna
  • Ever Prishkulnik as Young Lucie
  • Blake Robbins as Dad
  • Taylor John Smith as Son
  • Lexi DiBenedetto as Daughter
  • Ivar Brogger as Priest
  • Michael Dempsey as Detective
  • Larry Rosenthal as Dr. Haseem
  • Matthew Jaeger as Blaze
  • Max Acosta-Rubio as Nic
  • DaJuan Johnson as Officer
  • Carissa Bazler as Orphan (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 5% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 135

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Show the numbers
ScenesWomen's linesMen's lines
1 to 302
4 to 681
7 to 934
10 to 1222
13 to 15320
16 to 1820
19 to 2140
22 to 241312
25 to 2781
28 to 3000
31 to 33280
34 to 3600
37 to 3900
40 to 4270
43 to 45160
46 to 48110
49 to 5100
52 to 5430
55 to 57350
58 to 6000
61 to 6330
64 to 6680
67 to 6920
70 to 7260
73 to 7501
76 to 7800
79 to 8150
82 to 8460
85 to 8770
88 to 9000
91 to 9300
94 to 9600
97 to 9961
100 to 102260
103 to 10522
106 to 10855
109 to 11110
112 to 11460
115 to 117330
118 to 120110
121 to 12300
124 to 12601
127 to 12901
130 to 13270
133 to 135217

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.
ANNA: What are you doing here, Lucie? LUCIE: You used to be happy to see me. ANNA: I still am. I’m just surprised. LUCIE: I called. You never called back.
ANNA: Hello? LUCIE: I need you to believe me. LUCIE: I need you to see them too. ANNA: Tell me where you are.
ANNA: Lucie? ANNA: Hello? ANNA: Oh, God. LUCIE: I didn’t have a choice.
LUCIE: Anna! PLEASE! ANNA: I can’t help you anymore. LUCIE: Please...
LUCIE: It’s here, Anna. LUCIE: It hurt me again. ANNA: It’s okay. I’ve got you. I won’t let anything hurt you.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 89 are women's.

327 lines from women, 40 from men.

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

9 women and 7 men in the cast. 5 women and 2 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 8 of 386. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 7 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

  • First line by a woman
  • Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 90% of the words (2,419), men 10% (260). Women have 89% of the lines, so their lines run longer than men's.

Exhibit E: the test the other way

Run the other way, for men, the film scores 0 out of 3.

Conversations between two named characters

Exhibit F: behind the camera

2 of the 12 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 27% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by
Kevin Goetz (man), Michael Goetz (man)
Written by
Mark L. Smith (man)
Produced by
Peter Safran (man), Agnès Mentre (woman)
Shot by
Sean O'Dea (man)
Edited by
Jake York (gender not listed)
Music by
Evan Goldman (man)
Production design by
Alan Roderick-Jones (gender not listed)
Costumes by
Sheila Hume (gender not listed)
Cast by
Jordan Bass (gender not listed), Lauren Bass (woman)

The crew, department by department

  • Other crew

    5 women, 5 men

  • Production

    2 women, 3 men, 5 not listed

  • Sound

    0 women, 3 men, 4 not listed

  • Costume & Make-Up

    0 women, 2 men, 3 not listed

  • Directing

    1 women, 4 men

  • Camera

    0 women, 3 men, 1 not listed

  • Art

    0 women, 0 men, 2 not listed

  • Writing

    0 women, 2 men

  • Women
  • Men
  • Gender not listed on TMDB

Exhibit G: how old the stars were

Women: 34 on average. Men: 49 on average. The top-billed cast, at the film's release.

Women

Caitlin Carmichael 11, Bailey Noble 24, Troian Bellisario 29, Romy Rosemont 50, Kate Burton 58

Men

Toby Huss 48, Blake Robbins 50

Exhibit H: the money

What it cost and made, where TMDB lists it.

Budget
Not listed
Box office
$1.5 million

From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.

About this analysis

Our parser read the script: 135 scenes and 386 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works

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