what weapon killed them
i thought it was the garden weader but watson said it would of killed them instantly
shareWell the killer clearly used the garden weader when killing people on camera later in the film, right up to the big finally when being foiled by Holmes. So maybe Watson wasn't so great at forensics as he may have thought. :/
shareYes, that did seem to be a plot hole. First thing Watson says when being shown the instrument is to agree with the police inspector against Holmes that the weeder couldn't do the job of killing them.
shareI've watched this film over and over and the only explaination I can come up with is when the killer killed all his victims but the first, he went straight at it, using the weapon to kill them immediately, pretty much the way Watson said... but for his first murder, (not counting the sheep and one other person,) there was a more personal connection, so to speak, so either he didn't quite hit the mark, or he wanted her to suffer slowly, and deliberately didn't wound her in such a way that she would die right away.
My question is, even though all the violence is off screen, it's fairly bloody, and gruesome if you let yourself think about it. Yet these films were B movies and ended up on the late night and Saturday morning circut fairly quickly. Years later I was watching an Ellery Queen movie that references Spider Woman.
Were these movies aimed at kids, teenagers, or adults? Most of them only run an hour to an hour and fifteen minutes... and I don't think any were first run types, except maybe Baskervilles and Adventures.