Well it looks like Poltergeist fans can thank Sam Rockwell for saving them a few bucks at the box office this July when producer Sam Raimi and director Gil Kenan’s remake of Tobe Hooper’s brilliantly horrifying 1982 original arrives in theaters.

Sam Rockwell is playing the role of the dad in the film about a family tormented by malicious and angry spirits. The part originally played by Craig T. Nelson. In a chat with Collider, Rockwell admits that the remake is nothing more than a kid flick now.

Rockwell said:

The 10-year-old boy is really the protagonist this time.  JoBeth Williams was the protagonist for the most part in the first one and now the kid, it’s really through his point-of-view.  So it’s more of a kids’ movie so I don’t know if it’s gonna be like rated-R scary. It’s not like The Conjuring type of scary.

If that isn’t bad enough, Rockwell doesn’t even appear remotely confident that the remake is any good at all! In fact, he seems worried.

I hope it’s good.  I really don’t know.  I really wish I could tell you.  I’m praying that it’s – I mean, it’s gonna be hard to live up to the first one.  The first one’s pretty damn good.  This one’s gonna be in 3D though, I can tell you that.

So… there you have it from one of the film’s leads: it’s un-scary garabage, but you can watch it in 3D with whatever group of tweens haven’t figured out how to stream movies illegally on their iPhones yet.