If you’re willing to ignore the fact that an ancient mummy wouldn’t look like that and doesn’t even look…dead then sure.
If you’re willing to go with the idea that a mummy is resurrected, why not the idea that he doesn’t look quite dead? It’s all supernatural anyway.
Because having some old looking dude run around rather than a literal corpse isn’t nearly as frightening.
And it’s not nostalgia. I’m not that old and I actually saw the newer one first.
And I’m not only saying I prefer that look to the mummy, but the original is a much better film.
And it’s not that great a film…
Ok I must have misinterpreted because the look of the Boris Karloff Mummy looks bad even if it was good for it’s time while the movie itself I can’t comment on because I haven’t seen it since I was a kid. I should dig up the VHS too while I’m looking for my old The Mummy DVD