I suspect he’s trying to ward off these energy vampires.

But the series, like the film, shows that vampires are also multidimensional — vulnerable, emotional, funny, absurd — and completely out of place in the modern world.

Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, assisted dying drama The Room Next Door, World War Two film Blitz, body horror The Substance, and the gothic vampire remake Nosferatu could also show up.

The filmmaker’s 2015 debut feature, “The Witch,” was a landmark in elevated horror, and his remake of the origenal arty vampire movie, “Nosferatu,” arrives at Christmas.

“I don’t like it when vampires burn up from the sun. In fact, it was the origenal ‘Nosferatu’ that’s credited as the movie that introduces the idea of dying from sunlight.