S4 E18 - Scout Tafoya on Elevated Horror, "Men", and Tobe Hooper
The Trace
English - June 01, 2022 16:29 - 1 hour - 146 MB - ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsSociety & Culture TV & Film art culture equity existentialism interviews lgbtq movies music philosophy politics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
I talk with Scout Tafoya about our mutual loathing of "elavated horror", the new film "Men", and then get into his book on the films of Tobe Hooper ("Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "Poltergeist", "Lifeforce".)
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.
His features and his extensive video essay work can be found at Patreon.com/honorszombie.