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Night of the Demons

1988. Directed by Kevin Tenney, written by Joe Augustyn.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

  1. Yes 1. At least two women
    7 women characters. 11 of them speak.
  2. Yes 2. Who talk to each other
    In 2 scenes out of 7.
  3. 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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Poster for Night of the Demons

The film

On the night of Halloween, 10 teens decide to go to a party at an abandoned funeral parlor. "Hull House," rumored to be built on an evil patch of land & underground stream, is the place. While starting the party, the teens gather around a big mirror to perform a seance...BIG MISTAKE. They awaken some evil force and find themselves trapped and taken over one by one. Now it's a battle for who can survive and cross over the stream before going to hell....

Released
14 Oct 1988
Genres
Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Rated
R
IMDb
6.1 / 10
Elsewhere
View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

  • Women
  • Men
  • Not in the cast list
  • Bigger name, more lines
  1. Judy 84 lines, woman
  2. Jay 61 lines, man
  3. Sal 57 lines, man
  4. Rodger 54 lines, man
  5. Stooge 38 lines, man
  6. Max 32 lines, man
  7. Suzanne 31 lines, woman
  8. Angela 24 lines, woman
  9. Frannie 23 lines, woman
  10. Billy 19 lines, man
Full cast, 18 people
  • Cathy Podewell as Judy
  • Alvin Alexis as Rodger
  • Amelia Kinkade as Angela
  • Linnea Quigley as Suzanne
  • Hal Havins as Stooge
  • Billy Gallo as Sal
  • Lance Fenton as Jay
  • Jill Terashita as Frannie
  • Allison Barron as Helen
  • Philip Tanzini as Max
  • Harold Ayer as Old Man
  • Marie Denn as Old Man's Wife
  • Karen Ericson as Mrs. Cassidy / Judy's Mother
  • Donnie Jeffcoat as Billy
  • James W. Quinn as Clerk #1 / Demon Voices
  • Clark Jarrett as Clerk #2
  • Kevin Tenney as Customer in Convenience Store
  • Frank Welker as Demon Angela Voice (Uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 1 scene, 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 7

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Show the numbers
ScenesWomen's linesMen's lines
1 to 1615
2 to 21935
3 to 31316
4 to 400
5 to 521
6 to 68997
7 to 768118

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.
FRANNIE: It doesnit look like much of a party happening here. JUDY: Maybe we can still make the dance? FRANNIE: Max, what are you doing? -
FRANNIE: - Can we go in now? It's really getting chilly out here? JUDY: Hey, listen...
ANGELA: Put it down there where it ‘wont be in the way. Judy starts to light the last candelabra - but her BIC LIGHTER just clicks and clicks and wo… JUDY: Thanks. She drops her dead lighter on the pedestal next to the ANGELA’: I wouldnit do that if I were you. | JUDY | Huh? ANGELA: I wouldnit leave that lighter lying around. It has your fingerprints on it. Who knows what the spirits will make of that?
SUZANNE: Oh, how sweet. SUZANNE: Far fuckin® out! HELEN: I found it in my mother's closet! She used to be an acid head!
ANGELA: It%s perfect. I can't believe our luck. Even as she wipes the dust off its surface with a cloth, Suzanne is peering over her shoulder checki… HELEN: Maybe this isnit such a ‘good idea after all.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 41 are women's.

197 lines from women, 282 from men.

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

7 women and 11 men in the cast. 11 women and 15 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 3 of 497. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 25 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

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

Words spoken

Women speak 42% of the words (2,376), men 58% (3,294). Women have 41% of the lines, so their lines run longer 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

Exhibit F: behind the camera

None of the 7 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 32% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by
Kevin Tenney (man)
Written by
Joe Augustyn (gender not listed)
Produced by
Joe Augustyn (gender not listed)
Shot by
David Lewis (man)
Edited by
Daniel Duncan (man)
Music by
Dennis Michael Tenney (man)
Cast by
Tedra Gabriel (gender not listed)

The crew, department by department

  • Other crew

    4 women, 7 men, 10 not listed

  • Production

    0 women, 2 men, 15 not listed

  • Sound

    1 women, 4 men, 7 not listed

  • Camera

    0 women, 1 men, 8 not listed

  • Costume & Make-Up

    2 women, 0 men, 5 not listed

  • Art

    2 women, 0 men, 4 not listed

  • Directing

    0 women, 2 men, 3 not listed

  • Lighting

    0 women, 1 men, 3 not listed

  • Women
  • Men
  • Gender not listed on TMDB

Exhibit G: how old the stars were

Women: 25 on average. Men: 24 on average. The top-billed cast, at the film's release.

Women

Cathy Podewell 24, Amelia Kinkade 24, Jill Terashita 24, Allison Barron 24, Linnea Quigley 30

Men

Billy Gallo 21, Lance Fenton 21, Philip Tanzini 21, Hal Havins 28, Alvin Alexis 29

Exhibit H: the money

It made 2.6 times what it cost.

Budget
$1.2 million
Box office
$3.1 million

From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.

About this analysis

Our parser read the script: 7 scenes and 497 lines of dialogue. How the test works

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