Bill Skarsgard’s vocal (and physical, and psychological) performance as the title “vampyr” is just one of the highly memorable, scary, funny, scary-funny elements of Robert Eggers’ remake of the F. W.
Perhaps it's more than just kismet that Eggers would choose not one, but two castles that have deep roots in vampiric history. It's up for speculation why Herzog ever wanted to shoot in Pernštejn ...