Julie Pacino’s I Live Here Now Sets Twin Peaks Day Sneak Preview at Alamo Drafthouse

Lucy Fry unravels inside a crumbling motel in Julie Pacino’s 35mm-shot psychodrama horror debut.

Julie Pacino is stepping into the feature spotlight with I LIVE HERE NOW, a psychodrama horror debut that leans fully into fractured identity, motel dread, and subconscious terror. The film will host national special sneak-preview screenings at participating Alamo Drafthouse locations on Feb. 24, 2026, in celebration of Twin Peaks Day — and if that pairing tells you anything, it’s that we’re entering surreal territory.

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Pacino’s film follows Rose, played by Lucy Fry (The Vampire Academy), a struggling actress whose life begins to splinter just as it appears to be aligning. An unexpected revelation forces her to confront a future she never planned for, even as a career-defining opportunity with powerhouse agent Cindy Abrams (Cara Seymour, American Psycho) comes into view. But personal chaos creeps in fast. Her casual boyfriend Travis (Matt Rife) introduces his domineering mother — played by none other than Sheryl Lee, forever etched into genre memory — and the emotional pressure cooker starts to hiss.

Rose runs.

She escapes to The Crown Inn, a decaying roadside motel sitting at the edge of nowhere — the kind of place where time feels sticky and silence hums. There, sleep paralysis collides with splintered memories, and the motel’s strange inhabitants — especially the enigmatic Lillian (Madeline Brewer, The Handmaid’s Tale) — blur the line between reality and repression. The deeper Rose drifts, the more her body seems to remember what her mind has buried.

Shot on 35mm with striking 16mm sequences woven throughout, I LIVE HERE NOW embraces tactile filmmaking. The grain matters. The texture matters. The sense of being trapped inside a dream you can’t quite decode? That matters most. Pacino isn’t chasing conventional scares; she’s building a psychological unraveling rooted in trauma, memory and identity.

There’s an unmistakable Lynchian echo in the setup — fractured self, roadside isolation, haunted femininity — which makes the Twin Peaks Day preview screenings feel less like marketing synergy and more like aesthetic alignment. The Crown Inn isn’t just a location. It’s a subconscious waiting room.

The supporting cast rounds out a genre-savvy ensemble, including Sarah Rich (True Blood) and Lara Clear (The Society), grounding Rose’s descent in a world that feels familiar until it very much doesn’t.

For Pacino, this is a bold first step into features — one that favors mood over mayhem, atmosphere over explanation. If the trailer is any indication, I LIVE HERE NOW isn’t about jump scares. It’s about what your body remembers when your mind refuses to.

National sneak previews hit Alamo Drafthouse locations Feb. 24, 2026. And if you’re the type who prefers your horror dreamlike, disorienting and emotionally bruised, you may want to check in to The Crown Inn.

Just don’t expect a restful night.