Eyes Wide Open [DVD] [2009]

The character of Irene Huss originated in a series of bestselling detective novels by Swedish author Helene Tursten. A Detective Inspector with a Violent Crimes Unit in Sweden, Irene possesses formidable Ju-Jitsu skills and manages to raise twin daughters alongside her work on the force. Her husband, Krister, is a world-class chef who happily takes on a broad array of household tasks while Irene is out saving the world from violent criminals. The series Detective Inspector Irene Huss ran on Swedish television to phenomenal ratings, beginning in the late 2000s, with Angela Kovacs in the title role. Three feature length episodes of the series appear in this collection. The Night Round involves the disappearance of one nurse and the death of another following a blackout; The Glass Devil concerns the horrific slaughter of a family in a Swedish hamlet, marked with the eerie calling card of bloody pentagrams on the walls; and The Gold Digger finds Irene investigating the demise of three men in a brutal execution, after a substantial amount of money gets squandered in an online gaming scheme.