Passes the Bechdel test
You're Next
2013. Directed by Adam Wingard, written by Simon Barrett.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
6 women characters. 6 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 4 scenes out of 137. -
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 an attempt to mend their broken family ties, Aubrey and Paul Davison decide to celebrate their wedding anniversary by inviting family members to their weekend estate. The celebration gets off to a rocky start when mysterious assailants wearing animal masks suddenly attack the house.
- Released
- 23 Aug 2013
- Genres
- Drama, Horror, Mystery
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 6.6 / 10
- Metascore
- 66 / 100
- Awards
- 11 wins & 21 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Erin 106 lines, woman
- Crispian 82 lines, man
- Felix 74 lines, man
- Drake 61 lines, man
- Paul 55 lines, man
- Aubrey 39 lines, woman
- Zee 30 lines, woman
- Kelly 14 lines, woman
- Fox-Masked Man 13 lines, man
- Aimee 8 lines, woman
Full cast, 16 people
- Sharni Vinson as Erin
- Nicholas Tucci as Felix Davison
- Wendy Glenn as Zee
- AJ Bowen as Crispian
- Joe Swanberg as Drake Davison
- Margaret Laney as Kelly Davison
- Amy Seimetz as Aimee Davison
- Ti West as Tariq
- Rob Moran as Paul Davison
- Barbara Crampton as Aubrey Davison
- L.C. Holt as Lamb Mask
- Simon Barrett as Tiger Mask
- Lane Hughes as Fox Mask
- Larry Fessenden as Erik Harson
- Kate Lyn Sheil as Talia
- Calvin Lee Reeder as Officer Trubiano
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 137
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 4 to 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 to 9 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 to 12 | 2 | 1 |
| 13 to 15 | 6 | 7 |
| 16 to 18 | 9 | 18 |
| 19 to 21 | 1 | 5 |
| 22 to 24 | 16 | 16 |
| 25 to 27 | 1 | 0 |
| 28 to 30 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 to 33 | 6 | 5 |
| 34 to 36 | 11 | 15 |
| 37 to 39 | 10 | 5 |
| 40 to 42 | 20 | 47 |
| 43 to 45 | 8 | 17 |
| 46 to 48 | 13 | 12 |
| 49 to 51 | 1 | 5 |
| 52 to 54 | 0 | 3 |
| 55 to 57 | 2 | 1 |
| 58 to 60 | 0 | 5 |
| 61 to 63 | 5 | 3 |
| 64 to 66 | 0 | 0 |
| 67 to 69 | 1 | 0 |
| 70 to 72 | 2 | 6 |
| 73 to 75 | 4 | 5 |
| 76 to 78 | 11 | 3 |
| 79 to 81 | 7 | 4 |
| 82 to 84 | 1 | 1 |
| 85 to 87 | 0 | 0 |
| 88 to 90 | 2 | 10 |
| 91 to 93 | 0 | 0 |
| 94 to 96 | 0 | 0 |
| 97 to 99 | 13 | 13 |
| 100 to 102 | 18 | 19 |
| 103 to 105 | 10 | 0 |
| 106 to 108 | 3 | 0 |
| 109 to 111 | 0 | 0 |
| 112 to 114 | 4 | 9 |
| 115 to 117 | 0 | 17 |
| 118 to 120 | 0 | 2 |
| 121 to 123 | 0 | 1 |
| 124 to 126 | 1 | 15 |
| 127 to 129 | 0 | 1 |
| 130 to 132 | 1 | 3 |
| 133 to 135 | 7 | 24 |
| 136 to 137 | 1 | 2 |
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.
ERIN: Zee, right? I’m Erin. ZEE: I know.
AIMEE: What the fuck is happening?! AUBREY: Nine-one-one! ERIN: I don’t have a signal.
ERIN: I’m pretty fast. AIMEE: Me too. AIMEE: I do two hours on the elliptical every day.
ERIN: Basement’s a bad idea. They could just pour gas down the stairs, throw in a match. We want a place with multiple points of exit. ERIN: We should stay in there. ERIN: Oh, speaking of. ZEE: She’s... interesting.
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 40 are women's.
198 lines from women, 302 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
6 women and 10 men in the cast. 6 women and 8 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
A woman speaks the first line.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 36 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 37% of the words (1,709), men 63% (2,869). 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
12
Two men
25
Exhibit F: behind the camera
4 of the 11 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 29% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Adam Wingard (man)
- Written by
- Simon Barrett (man)
- Produced by
- Simon Barrett (man), Keith Calder (man), Kim Sherman (woman), Jessica Wu (woman)
- Shot by
- Andrew Droz Palermo (man)
- Edited by
- Adam Wingard (man)
- Production design by
- Tom Hammock (man)
- Costumes by
- Emma Potter (woman)
- Cast by
- Michelle Morris-Gertz (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Other crew
1 women, 2 men, 6 not listed
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Production
5 women, 4 men
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Sound
0 women, 6 men, 2 not listed
-
Camera
0 women, 3 men, 3 not listed
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Art
2 women, 3 men
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Costume & Make-Up
2 women, 0 men, 3 not listed
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Directing
0 women, 3 men, 2 not listed
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Editing
0 women, 1 men, 1 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 35 on average. Men: 36 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Wendy Glenn 28, Sharni Vinson 30, Margaret Laney 30, Amy Seimetz 31, Barbara Crampton 54
Men
Joe Swanberg 31, Nicholas Tucci 32, Ti West 32, AJ Bowen 35, Rob Moran 50
Exhibit H: the money
It made 14.3 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $1 million
- Box office
- $14.3 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 137 scenes and 504 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
