That’s not entertainment

Sir: How very disappointing — and quite shocking — to see The Spectator Australia (15 February) featuring a cover illustration of the psychopathic protagonist of Wolf Creek (and, presumably, Wolf Creek 2). It is the mark of a rather sick society that such fare is served up as ‘entertainment’: why is it acceptable for a character to be shown ‘slicing off a sobbing backpacker’s fingers and severing her spinal cord so she’s a paralysed “head on a stick”’? (As per Dean Bertram’s description).