The similarities/parallels are aplenty:
- A woman takes in both of the main characters. Mary and Brückner both share similar haircuts, and have a deformed son (or sons, in Mary's case) hidden away. Patua and Bobby share the exact same deformed face and same hairstyle. Both use blades or scissors to slash their victims.
- Also, both sons were conceived in a very unnatural manner (in Brückner and Patua's case, he had been the byproduct of the former being gang-raped by inmates at an insane asylum, and in Bobby/Dan Barrows and Mary's case, it was due to Mary getting herself impregnated via a demonic force in a Satanic ritual).
- Both Brückner and Mary, bring girls to their sons to kill (unconfirmed) and they themselves kill the girls too. Both love their deformed sons so much to kill for them.
- In Phenomena, Brückner works at the school which Jennifer goes to, and takes Jennifer with her home, while in Clock Tower, Mary works at the Granite Orphanage and decides to take Jennifer and her friends to the Barrows mansion.
- In Phenomena, Brückner imprisons the inspector before he exposes her crimes, in Clock Tower, Mary imprisons her own husband in a cage, for trying to kill her after he finds out that she wants to sacrifice people for her rituals.
- The deformed son ends up chasing the main character trying to kill her, but ends up being killed by the main character.
- In Phenomena, Patua dies by being burned on the boat, in Clock Tower, Dan also "dies" by being burnt by the same protagonist, Jennifer.
- Both have maggots-in-a-sink scenes.
- In Phenomena, Brückner uses pills to drug Jennifer and in Clock Tower, Mary can use a drink to drug Jennifer.
- In Phenomena, insects save Jennifer, while in Clock Tower, crows save her.
- In Phenomena, Brückner says "You killed my son" near the end, similar lines of dialogue are said by Mary in Clock Tower and again near the end.
- In the
Clock Tower ~The First Fear~ - Method to capture victory Bobby is attacked by the crows who Jennifer saved, while in Phenomena, Patua is attacked by the insects who hear her scream for help. Coincidentally, Jennifer Corvino's surname is Italian for "Raven".
- On a related note, one of the concept artworks for
Scissorwalker in
NightCry has Scissorwalker's face engulfed by flies, mirroring the climax where Patua is partially devoured by insects in response to Jennifer's cry for help.
- In Phenomena, many girls die first and Jennifer survives, as in Clock Tower.
