Scout Tafoya
Scout Tafoya is a film critic, video essayist, filmmaker, and author of Cinemaphagy: On The Psychedelic Classical Form of Tobe Hooper, the first book-length critical study of the director of “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.” Originally from from Doylestown, PA, he is the creator of RogerEbert.com’s The Unloved, the longest running video essay series on the web, about movies in need of a second look. His writing has appeared in the Village Voice, Film Comment, Nylon Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Film Stage among others. He is the director of over 25 feature films including “Eyam,” “House of Little Deaths,” and “Beata Virgo Viscera,” which debuted on RogerEbert.com.
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Movies (39)
Lonesome Death
2025 · Director, Writer, Editor
Mutineer
2025 · Director, Editor, Writer
Mysteries Mean Dark Corners
2024 · Radley Metzger
The Sweet East
2023 · Location Scout
Queen Regent
2022 · Director of Photography, Director, Producer
Xenolith Atlas
2022 · Director of Photography, Director, Writer
Hang The Pale Bastard
2022 · Director
Under Me You
2020 · Dave, Director
Zona Seyl
2020 · Director, Cinematography, Writer
The Silence Like A Sea
2020 · Director, Editor, Writer
A Personal Philosophy of Cinematic Language
2019 · Director, Writer, Editor
Fourteen
2019 · Assistant Director
Organism
2019 · Director
Rachel
2019 · Director
Beata Virgo Viscera
2018 · Director
The Sunless Remembered
2018 · Director
From Her To Eternity
2018 · Director
Concerned Space Wives or The Freelancer
2018 · Director
Enjoy Your Trip To Hell
2017 · Director
She Held Me Close And Whispered "Kill Me"
2017 · Director
The Kill Play
2017 · Director
Your Silent Face
2017 · Director
Superconnected
2017 · Director
House of Little Deaths
2016 · Director
Diana
2016 · Director
I Am No Bird
2015 · Director
Damnesia
2014 · Director
Eyam
2013 · Director
I Need You
2013 · Director
The Last Flesh & Blood Show
2013 · Director
The Riverbed
2012 · Director
Tron Wayne Gacy
2011 · Director of Photography, Director, Editor
A Knock At The Door
2010 · Director of Photography, Director, Writer
To all my friends on all their birthdays
2010 · Director
No fourth wall
2010 · Director
Fox Hunt
· John (voice)
Four Nights
· Writer, Director of Photography, Director
Epigenesis
· Director
Stubborn Beast
· Director, Producer
TV shows (0)
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