Vampires, serial killers, body snatchers and zombies live amongst us, hiding in plain sight. Join Jo Hamilton (Professor of Zoology and Parasitology at Aberystwyth University) to explore some of nature’s most fascinating and horrifying parasites and investigate why the horror of the silver screen may not be as fictional as we think.

Explore parasites that replace their victim’s tongues with their own body, wasps that lay their eggs inside a host and eat them alive from within, parasites that control the behaviour of their hosts (including humans!), worms that live in your blood, and a fungus that bursts out of its host’s head to spread its spores…

All sound familiar? Jo’s been well versed in what we love here at Abertoir, and has one major request from us…make it as disgusting as possible!