Passes the Bechdel test

Thir13en Ghosts

Name: Thir13en Ghosts
Released: 2001

2001. Directed by Steve Beck, written by Robb White and Neal Marshall Stevens and Richard D'Ovidio.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
8 women characters. 4 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 3 scenes out of 104.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

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

The film

Arthur and his two children, Kathy and Bobby, inherit his Uncle Cyrus's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to 12 ghosts. When the family, accompanied by Bobby's Nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine "designed by the devil and powered by the dead" to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by Dennis, a ghost hunter, and his rival Kalina, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive.

Released: 26 Oct 2001
Genres: Fantasy, Horror
Rated: R
IMDb: 5.7 / 10
Metascore: 30 / 100
Awards: 1 win & 4 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Arthur 173 lines, man
Rafkin 156 lines, man
Kalina 79 lines, woman
Kathy 71 lines, woman
Maggie 61 lines, woman
Bobby 53 lines, man
Cyrus 49 lines, man
Ben 28 lines, man
Damon 4 lines, man
Assistant 1 lines, man

Full cast, 26 people

Tony Shalhoub as Arthur
Embeth Davidtz as Kalina
Matthew Lillard as Rafkin
Shannon Elizabeth as Kathy
Alec Roberts as Bobby
JR Bourne as Ben Moss
Rah Digga as Maggie
F. Murray Abraham as Cyrus
Matthew Harrison as Damon
Jacob Rupp as Cyrus Assistant
Mike Crestejo as Team Member
Aubrey Lee Culp as Team Member
Charles Andre as Team Member
Mikhael Speidel as The First Born Son
Daniel Wesley as The Torso
Laura Mennell as The Bound Woman
Kathryn Anderson as Jean
Craig Olejnik as The Torn Prince
Shawna Loyer as The Angry Princess
Xantha Radley as The Pilgrimess
C. Ernst Harth as The Great Child
Laurie Soper as The Dire Mother
Herbert Duncanson as The Hammer
Shayne Wyler as The Jackal
John DeSantis as The Juggernaut
Ken Kirzinger as Team Member (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 1% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 104

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	0	13
4 to 6	2	34
7 to 9	1	5
10 to 12	0	8
13 to 15	1	6
16 to 18	12	23
19 to 21	12	24
22 to 24	10	10
25 to 27	2	20
28 to 30	5	16
31 to 33	0	36
34 to 36	0	4
37 to 39	0	8
40 to 42	0	1
43 to 45	7	13
46 to 48	11	3
49 to 51	4	13
52 to 54	1	4
55 to 57	13	28
58 to 60	0	0
61 to 63	7	11
64 to 66	1	4
67 to 69	22	19
70 to 72	7	11
73 to 75	12	13
76 to 78	19	18
79 to 81	36	61
82 to 84	6	5
85 to 87	2	14
88 to 90	2	9
91 to 93	5	2
94 to 96	5	13
97 to 99	1	13
100 to 102	2	3
103 to 104	4	3

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.

MAGGIE: Isn't there any other way? KALINA: We can try it the old-fashioned way... but nobody's going to be able to brag about it later. KALINA: Whatever we decide, we have to come up with a game plan soon. Time's running out.

MAGGIE: Oh... God... Looks like we found the lawyer. KALINA: Hold the flare still. I'm almost there.

MAGGIE: Hurry up! KALINA: I'm working on it! MAGGIE: Damn... Kalina... you better get over here... this shit ain't workin' anymore! MAGGIE: Hurry your ass up!

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 31 are women's.

212 lines from women, 468 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

8 women and 18 men in the cast. 4 women and 11 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 33 of 684. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 50 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 31% of the words (1,847), men 69% (4,197).

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 16 people in these jobs is a woman. Across the whole crew, 23% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Steve Beck (man)
Written by: Richard D'Ovidio (man), Neal Marshall Stevens (man), Todd Alcott (man)
Story by: Robb White (man)
Produced by: Joel Silver (man), Gilbert Adler (man), Robert Zemeckis (man)
Shot by: Gale Tattersall (man)
Edited by: Omar Daher (gender not listed), Edward A. Warschilka (man), Derek Brechin (man)
Music by: John Frizzell (man)
Production design by: Sean Hargreaves (man)
Costumes by: Jenni Gullett (gender not listed)
Cast by: Christine Sheaks (woman)