Scout Tafoya
- Known for
- Directing
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.
Filmography
Stubborn Beast TBA
Director, Producer
Epigenesis TBA
Director
Four Nights TBA
Writer, Director of Photography, Director
Fox Hunt TBA
as John (voice)
Lonesome Death 2025
Director, Writer, Editor
Mutineer 2025
Director, Editor, Writer
- Mysteries Mean Dark Corners
Mysteries Mean Dark Corners 2024
as Radley Metzger
The Sweet East 2023
Location Scout
Queen Regent 2022
Director of Photography, Director, Producer
Xenolith Atlas 2022
Actor, Director of Photography, Director, Writer
Hang The Pale Bastard 2022
Actor, Director
Under Me You 2020
as Dave, Director
Zona Seyl 2020
Actor, 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
From Her To Eternity 2018
Director
The Sunless Remembered 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
Eyam 2013
Director
- I Need You
I Need You 2013
Director
- The Last Flesh & Blood Show
The Last Flesh & Blood Show 2013
Director
The Riverbed 2012
Director
Tron Wayne Gacy 2011
Actor, 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
Credits from TMDB.