‘The Last Exorcism Part II’ dialogue as lifeless as many of the slain characters

Forty years after William Friedkin scared the bejesus out of cinema audiences with ‘The Exorcist’, Hollywood’s fascination with the “spiritual warfare” of casting out evil continues in ‘The Last Exorcism Part II’.
Ed Gass-Donnelly’s lumbering sequel begins directly after the climactic bloodbath of the 2010 supernatural horror, which documented the demonic possession of a sweet, naïve farm girl through the terrified eyes of a visiting film crew.