Scout Tafoya
Director
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.
Directed 33
2020s
- 2025
Lonesome Death
Director
- 2022
Queen Regent
Director
Xenolith Atlas
Director
Hang The Pale Bastard
Director
- 2020
Under Me You
Director
Zona Seyl
Director
The Silence Like A Sea
Director
2010s
- 2019
A Personal Philosophy of Cinematic Language
Director
Fourteen
Assistant Director
Organism
Director
Rachel
Director
- 2018
Beata Virgo Viscera
Director
The Sunless Remembered
Director
From Her To Eternity
Director
Concerned Space Wives or The Freelancer
Director
- 2017
Enjoy Your Trip To Hell
Director
She Held Me Close And Whispered "Kill Me"
Director
The Kill Play
Director
Your Silent Face
Director
Superconnected
Director
- 2016
House of Little Deaths
Director
Diana
Director
- 2015
I Am No Bird
Director
- 2014
Damnesia
Director
- 2012
The Riverbed
Director
- 2011
Tron Wayne Gacy
Director
- 2010
A Knock At The Door
Director
To all my friends on all their birthdays
Director
No fourth wall
Director
No release date
Four Nights
Director
Epigenesis
Director
Wrote 8
2020s
- 2025
Lonesome Death
Writer
- 2022
Xenolith Atlas
Writer
- 2020
Zona Seyl
Writer
The Silence Like A Sea
Writer
2010s
- 2019
A Personal Philosophy of Cinematic Language
Writer
- 2010
A Knock At The Door
Writer
No release date
Four Nights
Writer
Acted in 6
2020s
- 2022
Xenolith Atlas
Movie
Hang The Pale Bastard
Movie
- 2020
Under Me You
Dave
Zona Seyl
Movie
2010s
- 2011
Tron Wayne Gacy
Movie
No release date
Fox Hunt
John (voice)
Camera 5
2020s
- 2022
Queen Regent
Director of Photography
Xenolith Atlas
Director of Photography
2010s
- 2011
Tron Wayne Gacy
Director of Photography
- 2010
A Knock At The Door
Director of Photography
No release date
Four Nights
Director of Photography
Edited 5
2020s
- 2025
Lonesome Death
Editor
- 2020
The Silence Like A Sea
Editor
2010s
- 2019
A Personal Philosophy of Cinematic Language
Editor
- 2011
Tron Wayne Gacy
Editor
Produced 2
2020s
- 2022
Queen Regent
Producer
No release date
Other crew 1
2020s
- 2020
Zona Seyl
Cinematography
Art department 1
2020s
- 2023
