One of my primary criticisms of 2010’s found footage horror hit, “The Last Exorcism,” was its artificial feel and cringe-inducing performances. Intended to simulate reality, the picture felt false throughout, leaving me to wonder why the production would choose such a subgenre to tell their tale when they didn’t seem prepared to take the illusion seriously. The unfortunately titled “The Last Exorcism Part II” brings the franchise to its senses, dismissing improvisations and shaky-cam cinematography to find a more traditional route of terror by switching the demon activities to the realm of scripted drama, treating the next round of storytelling in a more cinematic manner, allowing the audience to be pulled into the tension instead of randomly bopped around by a flimsy sense of chaos. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com