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After taking a look back at House II: The Second Story (a favorite of mine since childhood), House of 1000 Corpses (which celebrated its 20th anniversary last year), the awesomeness of Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight, the leg smashing in the Stephen King adaptation Misery, three separate moments from John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China, the “Jason vs. Tina” battle in Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, the “all hell breaks loose” sequence from the start of Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead remake, the opening sequence of Pitch Black, and the “Burn” scene from The Crow, JoBlo’s own Lance Vlcek is continuing his The Best Scene video series with a look at a moment from genre regular Alexandre Aja‘s breakthrough film High Tension (watch it Here). To find out which scene Lance chose as the best, check out the video embedded above!

The initials of Cristian Mungiu’s R.M.N. might appear to be an abbreviation of the filmmaker’s country of origin, Romania, and thus set up the film as a portrayal of the nation in microcosm. But in its native language, the title refers to the same brain scan technology better known to English speakers as an M.R.I. The eye and ear for naturalism exhibited by this trailblazer of the Romanian New Wave—and, for 2007’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and Days, the country’s first to win the Cannes Film Festival’s prestigious Palme d’Or—accordingly moves from having a sociological interest into an outright anthropological one.

Again drawing inspiration from real events, Mungiu burrows deep into incident that transpired in a multi-ethnic Transylvanian village where a critical mass of residents protested a local bakery that brought in Sri Lankan employees to work. R.M.N. eschews lazy ripped-from-the-headlines topicality,...