Scout Tafoya
Biography
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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Filmography
- —Four NightsFilm · Director of Photography, Writer, Director
- —EpigenesisFilm · Director
- —Stubborn BeastFilm · Director, Producer
- 2025Lonesome DeathFilm · Director, Writer, Editor
- 2025MutineerFilm · Director, Editor, Writer
- 2023The Sweet EastFilm · Location Scout★ 6.5
- 2022Queen RegentFilm · Director, Director of Photography, Producer
- 2022Xenolith AtlasFilm · Director of Photography, Director, Writer
- 2022Hang The Pale BastardFilm · Director
- 2020Under Me YouFilm · Director
- 2020Zona SeylFilm · Director, Writer, Cinematography
- 2020The Silence Like A SeaFilm · Writer, Director, Editor
- 2019A Personal Philosophy of Cinematic LanguageFilm · Director, Editor, Writer
- 2019FourteenFilm · Assistant Director★ 5.9
- 2019OrganismFilm · Director
- 2019RachelFilm · Director
- 2018Beata Virgo VisceraFilm · Director
- 2018The Sunless RememberedFilm · Director
- 2018From Her To EternityFilm · Director
- 2018Concerned Space Wives or The FreelancerFilm · Director
- 2017Enjoy Your Trip To HellFilm · Director
- 2017She Held Me Close And Whispered "Kill Me"Film · Director
- 2017The Kill PlayFilm · Director
- 2017Your Silent FaceFilm · Director
- 2017SuperconnectedFilm · Director
- 2016House of Little DeathsFilm · Director
- 2016DianaFilm · Director
- 2015I Am No BirdFilm · Director
- 2014DamnesiaFilm · Director
- 2013EyamEyamFilm · Director
- 2013I Need YouI Need YouFilm · Director
- 2013The Last Flesh & Blood ShowThe Last Flesh & Blood ShowFilm · Director
- 2012The RiverbedFilm · Director
- 2011Tron Wayne GacyFilm · Director, Editor, Director of Photography
- 2010A Knock At The DoorFilm · Director, Writer, Director of Photography
- 2010To all my friends on all their birthdaysFilm · Director
- 2010No fourth wallFilm · Director
