Passes the Bechdel test
The Devil's Rejects
2005. Directed by Rob Zombie, written by Rob Zombie.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
10 women characters. 6 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 2 scenes out of 62. -
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.
The film
In Ruggsville, Texas, the police under the command of Sheriff John Quincy Wydell attack the house of the sadistic serial killers Firefly family (a.k.a. The Devil's Reject) and they arrest mother Firefly, but Otis B. Driftwood and Baby Firefly escape from the siege. Tiny is wandering nearby the house and also escapes. Otis and Baby call their patriarch, the mad clown Captain Spaulding and they schedule to reunite at an isolated motel in the desert. When Otis and Baby arrive, they kidnap two families of singers, using sadism and violence against the harmless persons. Meanwhile, Sheriff Wydell promises to capture and kill the runaways, seeking revenge for the death of his brother, the Deputy George Wydell.
- Released
- 22 Jul 2005
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Horror
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 6.7 / 10
- Metascore
- 54 / 100
- Awards
- 10 wins & 8 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Wydell 132 lines, man
- Baby 113 lines, woman
- Otis 109 lines, man
- Spaulding 91 lines, man
- Charlie 59 lines, man
- Dobson 42 lines, man
- Roy 32 lines, man
- Adam 23 lines, man
- Snapper 22 lines, man
- Mother 18 lines, woman
Full cast, 32 people
- Sid Haig as Captain Spaulding / James Cutter
- Bill Moseley as Otis B. Driftwood
- Sheri Moon Zombie as Baby Firefly / Vera-Ellen
- William Forsythe as Sheriff John Quincy Wydel
- Ken Foree as Charlie Altamont
- Matthew McGrory as Tiny Firefly
- Leslie Easterbrook as Mother Firefly
- Geoffrey Lewis as Roy Sullivan
- Priscilla Barnes as Gloria Sullivan
- Dave Sheridan as Officer Ray Dobson
- Kate Norby as Wendy Banjo
- Lew Temple as Adam Banjo
- Danny Trejo as Rondo
- Dallas Page as Billy Ray Snapper
- E. G. Daily as Candy
- Tom Towles as Lieutenant George Wydell
- Michael Berryman as Clevon
- P. J. Soles as Susan
- Deborah Van Valkenburgh as Casey
- Ginger Lynn Allen as Fanny
- Mary Woronov as Abbie
- Daniel Roebuck as Morris Green
- Duane Whitaker as Dr. Bankhead
- Steve Railsback as Sheriff Ken Dwyer
- Tyler Mane as Rufus
- Brian Posehn as Jimmy
- Michael 'Red Bone' Alcott as Darrell
- Chris Ellis as Coggs
- Kane Hodder as Officer with Gas Mask (uncredited)
- Jessica Helmer as Otis' Victim (uncredited)
- Kelvin Brown as Bubba
- Robert Trebor as Marty Walker (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 2 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 14% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 62
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 3 to 4 | 0 | 15 |
| 5 to 6 | 4 | 4 |
| 7 to 8 | 5 | 3 |
| 9 to 10 | 3 | 9 |
| 11 to 12 | 5 | 9 |
| 13 to 14 | 1 | 1 |
| 15 to 16 | 4 | 8 |
| 17 to 18 | 19 | 6 |
| 19 to 20 | 1 | 13 |
| 21 to 22 | 0 | 11 |
| 23 to 24 | 35 | 51 |
| 25 to 26 | 3 | 8 |
| 27 to 28 | 2 | 8 |
| 29 to 30 | 5 | 9 |
| 31 to 32 | 18 | 67 |
| 33 to 34 | 0 | 35 |
| 35 to 36 | 23 | 23 |
| 37 to 38 | 13 | 25 |
| 39 to 40 | 4 | 25 |
| 41 to 42 | 2 | 22 |
| 43 to 44 | 0 | 3 |
| 45 to 46 | 1 | 47 |
| 47 to 48 | 0 | 18 |
| 49 to 50 | 1 | 45 |
| 51 to 52 | 10 | 18 |
| 53 to 54 | 10 | 33 |
| 55 to 56 | 12 | 42 |
| 57 to 58 | 9 | 19 |
| 59 to 60 | 0 | 3 |
| 61 to 62 | 2 | 5 |
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.
GLORIA: Oh fantastic. WENDY: What? What's wrong with that place? I don't remember it.
MARIA: Fucking messy pigs. WENDY: No! No! I'll kill you ... I'll kill you! MARIA: Help ... help.
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 24 are women's.
192 lines from women, 594 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
10 women and 21 men in the cast. 6 women and 17 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 38 of 910.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 58 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 19% of the words (1,972), men 81% (8,188). Women have 24% 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
4
Two men
64
Exhibit F: behind the camera
1 of the 13 people in these jobs is a woman.
Across the whole crew, 13% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Rob Zombie (man)
- Written by
- Rob Zombie (man)
- Produced by
- Michael Ohoven (man), Rob Zombie (man), Mike Elliott (man), Andy Gould (man), Marco Mehlitz (man)
- Shot by
- Phil Parmet (man)
- Edited by
- Glenn Garland (man)
- Music by
- Tyler Bates (man)
- Production design by
- Anton Tremblay (man)
- Costumes by
- Yasmine Abraham (gender not listed)
- Cast by
- Monika Mikkelsen (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Other crew
1 women, 9 men, 1 not listed
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Production
1 women, 6 men, 2 not listed
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Sound
1 women, 5 men, 3 not listed
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Art
2 women, 3 men, 2 not listed
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Camera
0 women, 4 men, 2 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
0 women, 2 men, 2 not listed
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Editing
0 women, 1 men, 2 not listed
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Directing
0 women, 2 men
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 46 on average. Men: 52 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Sheri Moon Zombie 34, Priscilla Barnes 49, Leslie Easterbrook 56
Men
Matthew McGrory 32, Dave Sheridan 36, William Forsythe 50, Bill Moseley 53, Ken Foree 57, Sid Haig 66, Geoffrey Lewis 69
Exhibit H: the money
It made 3.0 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $7 million
- Box office
- $20.9 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 62 scenes and 910 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
