Fails the Bechdel test

Resident Evil

Name: Resident Evil
Released: 2026

2026. Directed by Zach Cregger, written by Zach Cregger and Shay Hatten.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

1 / 3

Fails

Yes 1. At least two women
8 women characters. 1 of them speak.
No 2. Who talk to each other
Our parser found no scene where two women talk to each other.
No 3. About something besides a man
Not reached: the film fails an earlier rule.

Second opinion

Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 1 out of 3.

The film

Follows a hapless courier tasked with delivering a package to a remote hospital. He soon finds himself caught in the middle of an outbreak and must fight through hordes of mutated creatures to survive.

Released: 18 Sep 2026
Genres: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Rated: R
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Bryan 406 lines, man
Pauline 73 lines, woman
Speaker 18 lines
Carl 17 lines, man
Dave 15 lines, man
Ashley 14 lines
Officer 13 lines
Little Girl 11 lines, woman
Monster 7 lines, man
Sheila 6 lines, man

Full cast, 21 people

Austin Abrams as Bryan
Paul Walter Hauser as Paul
Kali Reis as Maxine
Zach Cherry as Carl
Johnno Wilson as Officer Wilson
Shaun W. Loeser as Puker
Zach Cregger as Intercom (voice)
Emily Piggford as Dr. Maria Stokes
Will Merrick as Dave
Zoé Bellas as Birdie
Chris Lew Kum Hoi as Stanley
Griffin Newman as Wade
Magdalena Šittová as Agatha
Andrea Miltner as Pedestrian
Sara Paxton as Michelle (voice)
Karel Dobrý as Farmer
Devon Deshaun Stewart as Additional Voices (voice)
Kellen Goff as Additional Voices (voice)
Isla McRae as RV Girl
James Beaumont as Surgeon
Jo Martin as Andrea Vasquez

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 2 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 10% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 53

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 2	0	2
3 to 4	0	15
5 to 6	0	8
7 to 8	0	28
9 to 10	2	21
11 to 12	2	28
13 to 14	0	7
15 to 16	0	9
17 to 18	0	7
19 to 20	0	12
21 to 22	0	30
23 to 24	0	0
25 to 26	0	4
27 to 28	0	2
29 to 30	0	2
31 to 32	0	11
33 to 34	11	23
35 to 36	26	32
37 to 38	26	33
39 to 40	21	33
41 to 42	0	49
43 to 44	0	2
45 to 46	0	27
47 to 48	0	18
49 to 50	0	3
51 to 52	0	59
53 to 53	0	1

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, 16 are women's.

88 lines from women, 466 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit B: who's in it

8 women and 13 men in the cast. 1 women and 8 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 90 of 617. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 181 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 21% of the words (848), men 79% (3,128). Women have 16% 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

Two men

Exhibit E: behind the camera

2 of the 17 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 21% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Zach Cregger (man)
Written by: Shay Hatten (man), Zach Cregger (man)
Produced by: Robert Kulzer (man), Roy Lee (man), Miri Yoon (woman), Asad Qizilbash (man), Carter Swan (man), Zach Cregger (man) and 1 more
Shot by: Dariusz Wolski (man)
Edited by: Joe Murphy (man)
Music by: Hays Holladay (gender not listed), Ryan Holladay (gender not listed)
Production design by: Tom Hammock (man)
Costumes by: Caroline Fahrer (gender not listed)
Cast by: Allison Jones (woman)