Saxon Sharbino has joined producer Sam Raimi’s remake of Tobe Hooper’s 1982 supernatural blockbuster Poltergeist. Gil Kenan (Monster House) is attached to direct the film, written by David Lindsay-Abaire (Oz the Great and Powerful, Rise of the Guardians).

Poltergeist follows the Bowen family whose young daughter is abducted into another dimension by angry spirits. According to THR, Sharbino will play 16-year-old Kendra Bowen, the eldest of the family’s three kids. Sam Rockwell (Iron Man 2) and Rosemarie DeWitt (“United States of Tara”) star as the parents.

Sharbino is coming off the Fox drama “Touch.” The up-and-comer is no stranger to horror and has starred in such hardcore outings as Steven R. Monroe’s I Spit On Your Grave remake, the abduction thriller Julia X and the horror-drama Red White & Blue.