Passes the Bechdel test
The Cabin in the Woods
2012. Directed by Drew Goddard, written by Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
12 women characters. 6 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 8 scenes out of 94. -
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, though someone marked that rating as dubious.
The film
Five teenagers head off for a weekend at a secluded cabin in the woods. They arrive to find they are quite isolated with no means of communicating with the outside world. When the cellar door flings itself open, they of course go down to investigate. They find an odd assortment of relics and curios, but when one of the women, Dana, reads from a book, she awakens a family of deadly zombie killers. However, there's far more going on than meets the eye.
- Released
- 13 Apr 2012
- Genres
- Horror, Mystery, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 7 / 10
- Metascore
- 72 / 100
- Awards
- 20 wins & 34 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Dana 126 lines, woman
- Marty 93 lines, man
- Curt 89 lines, man
- Hadley 73 lines, man
- Jules 73 lines, woman
- Sitterson 72 lines, man
- Holden 71 lines, man
- Lin 26 lines, woman
- Truman 20 lines, man
- Attendant 15 lines
Full cast, 48 people
- Kristen Connolly as Dana Polk
- Fran Kranz as Marty Mikalski
- Chris Hemsworth as Curt Vaughn
- Jesse Williams as Holden McCrea
- Anna Hutchison as Jules Louden
- Richard Jenkins as Richard Sitterson
- Bradley Whitford as Steve Hadley
- Amy Acker as Wendy Lin
- Brian J. White as Daniel Truman
- Sigourney Weaver as The Director
- Tim DeZarn as Mordecai
- Tom Lenk as Ronald The Intern
- Greg Zach as Fornicus, Lord of Bondage and Pain
- Dan Payne as Matthew Buckner
- Jodelle Ferland as Patience Buckner
- Dan Shea as Father Buckner
- Maya Massar as Mother Buckner
- Matt Drake as Judah Buckner
- Nels Lennarson as Clean Man
- Rukiya Bernard as Labcoat Girl
- Peter Kelamis as Demo Guy
- Adrian Holmes as Demo Guy
- Chelah Horsdal as Demo Girl
- Terry Chen as Operations Guy
- Heather Doerksen as Accountant
- Patrick Sabongui as Elevator Guard
- Phillip Mitchell as Lead Guard
- Naomi Dane as Japanese Floaty Girl
- Ellie Harvie as Military Liaison
- Patrick Gilmore as Werewolf Wrangler
- Brad Dryborough as Chem Department Guy
- Emili Kawashima as Japanese Frog Girl
- Aya Furukawa as Japanese School Girl
- Maria Go as Japanese School Girl
- Serena Akane Chi as Japanese School Girl
- Abbey Imai as Japanese School Girl
- Marina Ishibashi as Japanese School Girl
- Miku Katsuura as Japanese School Girl
- Alicia Takase Lui as Japanese School Girl
- Jodi Tabuchi as Japanese School Girl
- Sara Taira as Japanese School Girl
- Alyssandra Yamamoto as Japanese School Girl
- Richard Cetrone as Werewolf/Merman
- Phoebe Galvan as Sugarplum Fairy
- Simon Pidgeon as Dismemberment Goblin
- Matt Phillips as Dismemberment Goblin
- Lori Stewart as Floating Witch
- Terry Notary as The Clown (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 2 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 8% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 94
Hover, tap or tab to a bar to see those scenes: where they happen and who's talking.
Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 3 to 4 | 6 | 17 |
| 5 to 6 | 29 | 16 |
| 7 to 8 | 3 | 12 |
| 9 to 10 | 0 | 16 |
| 11 to 12 | 21 | 31 |
| 13 to 14 | 2 | 0 |
| 15 to 16 | 5 | 10 |
| 17 to 18 | 16 | 20 |
| 19 to 20 | 0 | 10 |
| 21 to 22 | 12 | 31 |
| 23 to 24 | 40 | 40 |
| 25 to 26 | 14 | 35 |
| 27 to 28 | 3 | 5 |
| 29 to 30 | 1 | 5 |
| 31 to 32 | 0 | 1 |
| 33 to 34 | 1 | 11 |
| 35 to 36 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 to 38 | 0 | 7 |
| 39 to 40 | 8 | 20 |
| 41 to 42 | 2 | 7 |
| 43 to 44 | 0 | 3 |
| 45 to 46 | 0 | 2 |
| 47 to 48 | 0 | 1 |
| 49 to 50 | 1 | 0 |
| 51 to 52 | 4 | 8 |
| 53 to 54 | 7 | 5 |
| 55 to 56 | 2 | 2 |
| 57 to 58 | 8 | 20 |
| 59 to 60 | 0 | 1 |
| 61 to 62 | 0 | 5 |
| 63 to 64 | 1 | 1 |
| 65 to 66 | 0 | 2 |
| 67 to 68 | 1 | 7 |
| 69 to 70 | 6 | 9 |
| 71 to 72 | 5 | 5 |
| 73 to 74 | 1 | 6 |
| 75 to 76 | 1 | 7 |
| 77 to 78 | 3 | 4 |
| 79 to 80 | 3 | 7 |
| 81 to 82 | 1 | 3 |
| 83 to 84 | 3 | 8 |
| 85 to 86 | 6 | 1 |
| 87 to 88 | 2 | 1 |
| 89 to 90 | 1 | 2 |
| 91 to 92 | 1 | 6 |
| 93 to 94 | 25 | 16 |
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.
JULES: What a piece of a.hit. DANA: I was in a hurry. JULES: You know what I mean. Why haven't you stuck that asshole's picture on the dart board yet? DANA: It's not that simp -- oh my God your hairl
JULES: Doesn't even show on the GPS. It's unworthy of global positioning. DANA: It must feel horrible .••
JULES: Uh, no, never mind ••• DANA: I'm switching a few courses.
JULES: Because I hate going in the Rambler! DANA: You think the toilet here's gonna be better? JULES: I don't like to pee when all my friends are two feet away from me. I'm quirky. At least this has gotta be HOAHl
JULES: You have got to be kidding me. DANA: That's just creepy.
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 36 are women's.
245 lines from women, 432 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
12 women and 24 men in the cast. 6 women and 11 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 11 of 739.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 26 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 35% of the words (3,212), men 65% (5,940). Women have 36% of the lines, so their lines run shorter 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
Two women
18
Two men
63
Exhibit F: behind the camera
6 of the 13 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 41% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Drew Goddard (man)
- Written by
- Joss Whedon (man), Drew Goddard (man)
- Produced by
- Joss Whedon (man)
- Shot by
- Peter Deming (man)
- Edited by
- Lisa Lassek (woman)
- Music by
- David Julyan (man)
- Production design by
- Martin Whist (man)
- Costumes by
- Shawna Trpcic (woman)
- Cast by
- Anya Colloff (woman), Heike Brandstatter (woman), Amy McIntyre Britt (woman), Coreen Mayrs (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Costume & Make-Up
15 women, 4 men, 12 not listed
-
Art
4 women, 12 men, 14 not listed
-
Other crew
7 women, 16 men, 7 not listed
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Visual Effects
2 women, 6 men, 22 not listed
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Camera
1 women, 10 men, 16 not listed
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Sound
6 women, 12 men, 4 not listed
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Production
8 women, 3 men, 7 not listed
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Lighting
0 women, 1 men, 10 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 39 on average. Men: 40 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Anna Hutchison 26, Kristen Connolly 31, Amy Acker 35, Sigourney Weaver 62
Men
Chris Hemsworth 28, Fran Kranz 30, Jesse Williams 30, Brian J. White 36, Bradley Whitford 52, Richard Jenkins 64
Exhibit H: the money
It made 2.4 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $30 million
- Box office
- $71 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 94 scenes and 739 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
