Patua Brückner

"I told you, I don't live alone. I have a small son. He's very sick. I cover the mirrors for his sake. He doesn't want to see his reflection. I worry about him very much. He's changed my life completely. Sometimes, I think he's driving me crazy."

- Brückner to Jennifer Corvino about her son.

"Go away, you scare me! I don't want you here."

- Brückner' Son to Jennifer Corvino.

Patua Brückner is the secondary antagonist of the 1985 Italian horror film Phenomena. He is the son of Frau Brückner and a serial killer who targets those who see his deformed face.

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Past
fifteen years ago prior to the events of the film, Frau was raped by the inmates at an unnamed local insane asylum, resulting in getting her pregnant and give birth to a deformed son.

Present
By the time they arrive at her home, Jennifer asks Frau about why all the mirrors in the house being covered, she tells her that they would upset her son, who is mentally disabled and born with a disease.

As Jennifer tries to find a way out of the basement, she hears a child's crying in a room. She finds Frau's son, who reveals to have been born with syndrome, resulting in him having a deformed face. Jennifer gets frighted by the boy's face and runs off and finds a motorboat and attempts to escape with it. But the boy runs toward the boat and tries to kill Jennifer. However, she summons a swarm of flies to attack him and causing him to fall into the lake and drowns. Jennifer then starts the motorboat, the engine explodes and bursts into flames. Jennifer jumps off the boat in time, the deformed boy grabs Jennifer and both emerged with from underwater at a safe distance from the fire, but the boy is caught in the fire and is burned alive as his body sinks to the bottom of the lake.

Swimming to shore, Jennifer makes it out of the lake and sees a car, and Shapiro arrives and happy to see her. Before he could rescue Jennifer, Frau appears and decapitates Shaprio and tries to kill Jennifer once again, this time to avenge her son. But before she could, an enraged Inga appears just in time and brutally kills Frau, leaving Jennifer and Inga the only survivors and safe from the horror.