How come it's usually females getting possessed?

Good question. Time to make the boys possessed. Maybe it is part of the sexism that is Hollywood or that maybe there will be a nipple slip during the exorcism? I see at least 2-3 of these movies come up in theaters a year and that's only the big budget ones. Sort of a lame idea at this point, unless you make it original.

in religions like islam, women are more susceptibility to posession and diabolical attacks

Cause boys are smarter.

Joke. Don't freak out.

Well evil spirits and demons are often portrayed as "male".

Now let's be honest, if you gotta inhabit some random body, most male demons would choose the fairer sex!

@ninetymin: Amityville II: The Possession is about a male who become possessed. Granted, it is a film from the 1980s, but there was at least one film where a male was possessed.

The Haunting in Connecticut was only a guy because, supposedly, it was based on a true story. If you watch the Discovery Channel version of that whole ordeal, it's much more realistic than the movie.

I totally see your point and have asked myself this many times. I always come up with the conclusion: because men think we're crazy. Just look at psychiatric diagnoses for women such as hysteria or anxiety - 90% of women get these 'disorders'.

Watch American Horror Story Season 2 this Fall. It'll really boil your blood.

If you are female, power to you, sister. And, I'm a writer creating a horror type story that will really stick it to men. (for once)

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Good point, but that's the way it is. But remember, the inspiration for the Exorcist came from a true story a boy. At least there was Insidious :). I remember there was a case of possession in Morocco about a hundred years ago. A well-known rabbi exorcised not one but two demons from a man. He asked what was the cause of the possession? The demon said that it was a punishment for the man for 'throwing boiling water out the window and scalding some passerby.' Gruesome, no? As for the possessed, he didn't act crazy or anything all - he just lay down on the floor and was drooling. He was eventually cleansed when the rabbi's older brother commanded the spirits to leave and never return.

Never throw boiling water out the street! :)!

I think there is a lot of truth to the whole female supposedly being more innocent then men argument but also feel it is also the trend at the moment. One of the most famous male possession films is The Shinning but it's never quite clear if he drives himself mad or is indeed possessed.

Others include

The Fallen starring Denzel Washington in which the demonic host can pass from host to host through touch.

Childs Play - In which a male serial killer possesses a doll

In many films featuring male possession the male is already corrupted in some way and so is more susceptible to possession. I think it's down to a stigma attached to men that all men desire power in some form. I think a contemporary view of women as being strong and independent is relatively new but they are still viewed as being more frail or incapable of being as evil as men. With so many films jumping on the possession band wagon at the moment perhaps flipping the Shinning formula on it's head and have a women become insane/possessed with the intent on killing her family would be much more terrifying.

While a lot of people say that females are creepier when possessed I would actually think differently... remember The Shining? What is more terrifying than someone who is already stronger and in more power than you... and is also trying to kill you. But I think females are better and being the... "insane" crazy possessed while males are better at the "quiet" possessed. If you notice in movies where the girls are possessed they are usually jumping around, crazy, and hysteric while movies with guys being possessed usually have the males being quiet and more being more thoughtful.