He just spit right into his hand

I had a film professor for several courses in college. Dr. Ross. He was a really cool dude, sort of weird, extremely helpful. He challenged us to think about film in new ways at every turn, and he often said or did things that shocked the class in order to prove a point.

I took a horror film class with him. We started with slasher flicks before moving into the more bizarre, unsettling horror that I…