Part of the appeal of the old characters too where that they weren't pure evil. Yeah, they were rotten horrible creatures, but there was still some humanity in them.
The Mummy was just a generic badguy and there's previous attempt Dracula just made him a good guy with no real bad qualities.
I agree with that as well. Except Dracula was never human. He was always sexy evil.
Also-F/X can't replace the moody feel of the old Universal horrors. Just can't be done. Hammer did well with technicolor blood and hot women, and Christopher Lee was an imposing Dracula. And the Hammer Frankenstein's made the wise choice of not making the Monster the focus-Peter Cushing led that series well. But Lee and Cushing carried those series. The new Universal doesn't have a horror star. Or a real direction-it just seems phony-like their trying to make a franchise.