Review of The Last Exorcism Part II

. . . as this is sort of a contradiction in terms, and unlike 1930s horror, it nearly always denotes a half-hearted attempt to warm up leftover effects, characters, and plot points from earlier movies. The scariest thing about THE LAST EXORCISM PART 2 is that the producers have been making the rounds threatening to release a LE Part 3, etc. Make no mistake: this does NOT have the potential to be a SAW franchise, or even FINAL DESTINATION. This sequel is even more a lame imitation of the hundreds of previous possessed-by-the-devil flicks than was the original. At least the first movie had some credible conflict in the characters of the pastor and the film-maker. The sequel simply tries to trot some of the dead characters from the first movie into the second in a muddled attempt to blur the line between illusion and reality. This simply succeeds in confusing the majority of viewers. Since the movie is PG13, there is not the necessary level of sex and violence to sustain a modern horror flick. The only thing that could salvage such a bad situation would be an original plot and good acting, but THE LAST EXORCISM PART 2 is sorely lacking on both scores.