I wanted to make a poll about which version of Dracula you think is the scariest. But after much consideration I will make this about all of the recurring bosses and in doing so there will be no poll, only your opinions based in list form. I want to know not only which version of the boss freaks you out but why and what are the determining factors. Music, room setting, atmosphere, time occurence, etc.
For example with Dracula you could say
CV1 he appears from the floor with a disembodied head and then the rest appears and the music is apra-po. Or maybe you like the look of him in SCVIV with the music and the rumbling of the keep with lightning sparks everywhere or maybe CV64 he appears with the intention of tearing Schneider limb from limb. I am going to have a tough time with this.
1 Dracula I say CV64 when he first appears and that bell rings for the first time that was unevering.
2 Death CV1 dropping from the ceiling as Heart of Fire fades out.
3 Frankenstein's Monster CV1 as Igor was such a pain.
4 Mummies Dracula X Chronicles as they scream at you.
5 Medusa LOI having a giant head look right at you and float towards you and yell damn you.
6 Phantom Bat, while this boss is my first of the series I go with the Chronicles version.
7 Orphic Viper is in a number of the games but I think it was Legacy where he was the most fearsome.
Not many bosses recur and I cant think of many that recur more than one other time in the series. Cyclops, Slogra and Gaibon,
the Wolfman, the Minotaur, Pueyxil those are the only others I can think of at the moment.