Diagnosis: Death

Anyone watching this expecting a horror will be missing the point. This is a movie which includes in cameo roles the stars of Flight of the Conchords.

There's nothing serious about this movie, and the plot is very light; the reason to watch this movie is the characters, who though almost only two dimensional in depth, are very likable.

The tone/rhythm of the movie is a lot like Flight of the Conchords, as is it's subdued humor.

There really isn't much more to say about this movie.

I enjoyed quite a bit.

It's a light, enjoyable snack.

Don't listen to what everyone else says this film is actually really good. Firstly everyone get over the fact that Flight OF The Conchords aren't actually in it that much. Bret has quite a big role, say the 4th biggest in the film. Rhys is in 2 scenes and Jemaine is only in it for about 2 minutes. After you realise this you can sit back and watch this movie with an open mind. The plot is rather solid and good and the acting is done in a way which is suspenseful and comedic. Overall really enjoyed it.

8/10 Most will enjoy.

:D

I deserve to have the word "sucker" tattooed on my forehead. I'd just finished watching season 2 of Flight of the Conchords and was in need of more. Stumbled across an advert for this film and immediately ordered it.

Jemaine appears in precisely one scene (about 2 minutes) Murray appears in 2 scenes (about 3 minutes in total) Bret appears in 5 or 6 scenes as a peripheral inconsequential character.

Truly awful pedestrian plot not worthy of a TV movie. I can only assume that the three starts of FotC got suckered into making this movie themselves.

Really, don't bother with this. I gave it 3 stars and I think in retrospect I was being very kind. At that point I still had 20 minutes to go.

Watched this with some friends. Found it most useful for ridicule, a la MST 3K.

A teenage student (who appears to be 30) and a teacher for whatever reason agree to participate in a drug trial locked into a clinic with a confused doctor (Flight of the Concords' Bret McKenzie), an insane nurse, and, as it turns out, a family of ghosts looking for revenge. They experience hallucinations and explore the mystery of how the ghosts died.

The movie is laugh out loud hilarious with the three main cast member of Flight of the Concords popping in and out randomly. The mystery makes no sense. The sexual relationship between the girl and the teacher would be creepy were she not clearly about as old as he is. The climax is ridiculously artificial.

Basically, grab a beer and make fun of Diagnosis Death and you can have a good time. Take it seriously, and you'll be lost.

Given less than three months to live, unethical school-teacher Andre Chang (Raybon Kan, who also co-wrote the film) takes part in a weekend drug trial, hoping that he'll get 'the good stuff'. While there he befriends 18-year-old schoolgirl Juliet Reid (unconvincingly played by 28-year-old Jessica Grace Smith), who helps him to work out whether a series of strange occurrences on the ward are merely hallucinations caused by the drugs or if a restless spirit is the real cause.

The quote on the cover for this New Zealand horror comedy claims that it is "as funny as Shaun of the Dead", while the blurb on the back informs us that Diagnosis: Death gives a 'gruesome nod to Peter Jackson's early films'. Neither could be further from the truth.

It seems quite fitting that the two central characters of this diabolical misfire are suffering from a terminal disease, because the whole thing is about as funny as inoperable cancer. I can honestly say that I didn't laugh once throughout the movie, but I did yawn quite a bit. And as far as graphic violence is concerned, there is very little to be seen for most of the run-time, and even when it does get gory, it's nowhere near on the same scale as Bad Taste or Braindead.

2/10. Not worth the effort, even for avid fans of NZ cult comedy Flight of the Conchords: the cameos by the show's stars -- Jemaine Clement, Bret McKenzie, and Rhys Darby -- are all too brief and also not in the slightest bit amusing.