If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Love is a twisted and sick thing, at least that's what I thought after watching "Deep Crimson". But what exactly was "Deep Crimson" portraying? Was it passionate love or a web of obsession between two insecure people who just so happened to collaborate and form a dynamic duo of insanity. I cant say that I found this movie to be humorous, but fascinating to say the least. With Coral referring to herself as "the fatty" after her daughter calls her overweight and Nico calling himself "a monster" after losing his toupee, they mirror one another. I seemed to correlate the mirrors in the film with the mirroring effect between the two main characters, Nico and Coral. As much as they were different, they were exactly alike, they both had an insatiable hunger for love and attention, they each had their insecurities neither of them could over come, no matter how much one complimented the other, and of course they both had the ability to manipulate the innocent people they preyed on. Between Corals jealousy and Nico's dependency on the woman who loves him (Coral) the film turned out to be a roller-coaster ride of excitement, passion and horror. The mirrors in the film showed who they really were, fat and bald, but they had each other. Two people who believed they deserved no one or nothing, found each other and there is no other way this film could have ended but with them both dying, because like Nico said to Coral in the film "how did I ever live without you?".

An interesting element of Deep Crimson was it's unique look at gender roles through these evil and demented characters. Coral plays a mother's role in this film, and although she plays it badly to her own children who she mistreats and abandons not far into the film, she does play it to a larger degree with her lover, Nicholas. She is continually assuring him that she will take care of every situation, from giving her own hair to mend his hairpiece, through smashing the old woman on the head with a religious statue while Nicholas cowers like a child in the closet, up through her drowning of the toddling baby girl at the end.Nicholas is literally wearing the pants in the relationship, but Coral is the real brains and brawn behind their whole undertaking. Nicholas continually displays immature qualities. He has temper tantrums, such as when the young mother sees him without his wig and he attacks her, and also when he begs Coral to kill the old woman from the closet. However, although he is most often the more passive of the two, he is still essential to Coral, because she loves him, and to their scheme, because he is the breadwinner.Nicholas plays the head of the operation, as a man typically plays the role of the head of the household. However, Coral is a much more powerful and decisive role than perhaps a normal, passive feminine figure would be expected to be and that is portrayed as necessary. This film seems to show that men need women, and vice versa. Neither of them could perform this scam alone--and while these characters are obviously no template for family life, they are perhaps a commentary on it. They are, for the duration, a happy, dysfunctional family.

The plot has been commented by other viewers, so let's move on. I saw this movie when it came out in theaters and loved it, especially the development of the plot (based on the same true events portrayed in Leonard Kastle's cult classic "The Honeymoon Killers") and the way Ripstein expertly evolves from black humor to suspense to bloody tragedy. I also loved the bolero-like title (say it in Spanish -Profundo Carmesí- beauuutiful), the choice of colors (thick greens, reds, blacks and browns), the set decoration, the actors, the all-imposing Catholic symbols and Catholic guilt which are so present in Latin American cultures... So I thought it was a film about SICK love and misleading appearances, how harmless-looking people can hide sick violent personalities that may ignite under certain circumstances, never to return to what they were before. A few years later, I happened to see an interview with Ripstein about this film, which urged me to see it again. He said it was a film about the dangers of romantic passion, tout court -- in the sense that passionate love is just one step away from isolation from society's values and conventions - and I thought "yes, this makes sense!". "Profundo..." is (also) about the pathological potential of any passionate love: the anti-social, selfish, self-consuming and potentially destructive behavior a love affair can trigger, to the risk of excluding friends, family and professional life from the lovers' agenda, and when nothing really matters except each other, their plans and their being together against all odds or reasons. Coral's behavior, dumping her children, lying, stealing, killing, marching on regardless of everyone else's feelings or actual physical integrity is a depiction of a sick personality...or is just a step or two further than the average person "madly" in love??"Profundo Carmesí" is great, but do I have to mention not to expect anything uplifting? My vote: a good 8 out of 10, just don't see it if you've been recently dumped by your lover/husband/wife; it might give you bad ideas!!

Smooth-tongued Nicolas and over-sized Coral meet through a sexy advertisement in the personal columns. Coral who adores Charles Boyer clings to Nicolas as the next best thing. They form a partnership and decide on a plan - to seduce rich women and make off with their money and valuables. It looks all too easy.The plan works well until Coral believes he might be over-doing the seductions and falling for the ladies. It really seems we are in for a good comedy. Nicolas is having trouble with his hairpiece and Coral really does have a weight problem.I guess the comic situations do accent the drama which is to follow. The frivolous dialogue starts to become more serious, especially when one of the victims informs them she has become pregnant. Because many of the homes visited are isolated in desert areas of Mexico, it would seem easy to dispose of a human being should that person be involved in some kind of accident.With cold determination Nicolas and Coral become involved in a new plan - one of murder. At this point we grip our seats and anticipate the worst for the unwary victim. The atmosphere is tense, no help is at hand and the murderers carry out their horrible plan. The ending I think is rather abrupt (some scenes have been edited out, perhaps) but it makes the point that crime does not pay. I have seen many road movies, but this one, I must confess, is the bloodiest of them all.