what a disappointment . the flesh and the fiend have a lot go for it and include a cast of familiar genre face ( peter cushing and donald pleasence and and billie whitelaw ) and decent production value and and a distinctly eerie atmosphere . unfortunately and the story of an anatomy professor ( cushing ) who use fresh corps bring in ( and often kill ) by two bum ( include a pre bald pleasence ) play more a a straight drama than a horror film while there would be nothing wrong with this if the story have a hint of interest and but it doesn not . strip away the credential of the cast and the film itself be slow and talky and and generally uninteresting . sort of like an aip film without the cheese and and a hammer film without the fine polish .