Synopsis:
A timid butcher and his drama queen twin sister quit the hostile confines of post- Brexit Britain and adventure to Australia in search of their birth mother, but the seemingly tolerant townsfolk are hiding a dark, meaty secret.

Cast:  Kerry Armstrong, Kathryn Wilder, Gary Sweet, Stephen Hunter, Jordan Waller, Don Bridges, Helen Dallimore, Kevin Harrington

Directors: Jesse O’Brien
Writers: Jordan Waller

There’s a quality scene in Two Heads Creek where two characters just exchange “yeah, nah” and “nah, yeah” back and forth which had me laughing for a solid minute. This was shortly followed up by a rather gruesome but comedic death full of blood and gore. All elements that lead Two Heads Creek to tick all of the boxes for a solid comedy/horror and it pulls all these elements together with a rather on-the-nose political jab at the U.K and Australia’s current landscapes. 

Norman (Jordan Waller, who also pens the script)  is introduced as he is attempting to use a meat grinder in all the wrong ways inside a butcher shop. A butcher shop he and his twin Annabelle (Kathryn Wilder) — a budding actor and school drop out of the family —  have just been left as their Mum passed away. Although Norman wants to keep the shop, Annabelle wants to sell it for money, it doesn’t help the shop is getting vandalised and slandered for its Polish residences. Brexit campaigners yelling variations of “return to your own country” in less polite language are shown several times in the opening ten minutes. 

What Norman and Annabelle discover when working through their Mum’s items, however, is that she was only their adoptive Mother, with their birth-mother living across the world in Australia, in a small fictional town called Two Heads Creek located in the back-end of Queensland. So the two pack their bags and head off to meet their real Mum. 

Upon arrival in Australia, Norman and Annabelle are quickly boarded on a bus headed to Two Heads Creek and introduced to Apple who is played by Helen Dallimore with a Pauline Hanson inspired performance. Apple thanks all the “foreigners” for coming to Australia while Annabelle asks why there are so many Chinese people on this bus, which is quickly and plainly answered by a woman stating she’s, in fact, Vietnamese. If the film’s undertones aren’t obvious by this point, you’re not paying attention. 

In Two Heads Creek, the twins discover a run-down backend town filled with a real highlight of rather stereotypical white-Aussie Larkins that includes Apple’s lover Noah (Kevin Harrington), their son Eric (David Adlam) along with their young daughter and a man who appears to be the leader of the bunch, Hans (Gary Sweet). After a decent beer-scene involving a few cans of four-ex, a solid meal and a meet and greet, of course, things start going down the weird and wacky hole as the twins begin searching for their mother in the town. 

Two Heads Creek does have a big reveal moment, but they telegraph it from the start of the film with a huge flashlight basically shinning on what’s happening. It’s still a fantastic reveal with how writer Jordan Waller chooses to have the sequence play out with director Jesse O’Brien putting together a unique sequence with the entire cast getting to have a bit of fun with the material.