Passes the Bechdel test

The Hills Have Eyes

Name: The Hills Have Eyes
Released: 2006

2006. Directed by Alexandre Aja, written by Wes Craven and Alexandre Aja and Grégory Levasseur.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
5 women characters. 4 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 3 scenes out of 116.
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

While celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary, a couple are traveling through the desert with their 3 children, son in law and their baby granddaughter. While the rest of the family agrees there are plenty of better and more appropriate things to do to celebrate an anniversary, they make do with what they have, but things take a turn after a sketchy gas station attendant informs them about a "short cut" that will take them in between a series of hills in the desert. It doesn't take too long before they realize they're not alone and the hills indeed do have eyes.

Released: 10 Mar 2006
Genres: Horror, Thriller
Rated: R
IMDb: 6.4 / 10
Metascore: 52 / 100
Awards: 2 wins & 13 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Doug 95 lines, man
Bobby 75 lines, man
Lynn 56 lines, woman
Ethel 48 lines, woman
Brenda 43 lines, woman
Big Bob 31 lines, man
Lizard 11 lines, man
Big Brain 6 lines, man
Man 2 5 lines, man
Voices 4 lines

Full cast, 19 people

Maxime Giffard as First Victim
Michael Bailey Smith as Pluto
Tom Bower as Gas Station Attendant
Ted Levine as Big Bob
Kathleen Quinlan as Ethel
Dan Byrd as Bobby
Emilie de Ravin as Brenda
Aaron Stanford as Doug
Vinessa Shaw as Lynn
Maisie Camilleri Preziosi as Baby Catherine
Robert Joy as Lizard
Laura Ortiz as Ruby
Ezra Buzzington as Goggle
Billy Drago as Papa Jupiter
Greg Nicotero as Cyst
Ivana Turchetto as Big Mama
Desmond Askew as Big Brain
Judith Jane Vallette as Small Deformed Child
Adam Perrell as Small Deformed Child

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, 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 116

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	0	9
4 to 6	0	0
7 to 9	6	7
10 to 12	8	9
13 to 15	8	11
16 to 18	1	4
19 to 21	1	11
22 to 24	11	18
25 to 27	16	15
28 to 30	23	3
31 to 33	4	2
34 to 36	4	16
37 to 39	8	2
40 to 42	0	3
43 to 45	5	0
46 to 48	12	0
49 to 51	11	12
52 to 54	8	9
55 to 57	2	5
58 to 60	4	14
61 to 63	1	1
64 to 66	0	2
67 to 69	3	4
70 to 72	0	1
73 to 75	0	4
76 to 78	0	0
79 to 81	9	29
82 to 84	0	8
85 to 87	1	1
88 to 90	0	0
91 to 93	0	15
94 to 96	0	4
97 to 99	0	3
100 to 102	0	2
103 to 105	0	2
106 to 108	4	2
109 to 111	0	0
112 to 114	0	3
115 to 116	1	0

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.

ETHEL: Hello...Hello... Can somebody hear me? Please answer if you hear me. Hello? No answer. The radio goes silent. Lynn joins her, holding the ba… LYNN: How's it going? ETHEL: I heard something. She fiddles with the radio. ETHEL: I'm not even sure I know how to use this thing. Lynn hands her Catherine, and sits in front of the C/B.

LYNN: Mayday. . .We're stranded in the desert, we need help...mayday... Suddenly, the light on the C/B turns green and static can be heard. Ethel … LYNN: What was that? ETHEL: It sounded like an animal... Lynn stands up worried. LYNN: If animals start answering our radio calls, we're really fucked!

LYNN: It was really weird, right mom? ETHEL: I'm sure it was just static. LYNN: Mom, it sounded like a perverted crank call.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 40 are women's.

151 lines from women, 231 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

5 women and 11 men in the cast. 4 women and 7 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 15 of 398. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 30 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 34% of the words (1,939), men 66% (3,748). Women have 40% 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

Two men

Exhibit F: behind the camera

1 of the 15 people in these jobs is a woman. Across the whole crew, 22% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Alexandre Aja (man)
Written by: Grégory Levasseur (man), Alexandre Aja (man)
Produced by: Peter Locke (man), Wes Craven (man), Marianne Maddalena (woman), Samy Layani (gender not listed)
Shot by: Maxime Alexandre (man)
Edited by: Baxter (gender not listed)
Music by: tomandandy (gender not listed), Andy Milburn (man), Tom Hajdu (man)
Production design by: Joseph C. Nemec III (man)
Costumes by: Danny Glicker (man)
Cast by: Mark Bennett (man)