A top secret mission for French Intelligence brings Indy to Istanbul during the first world war. Exploring the city's dark and dangerous streets, he is thrust into a web of betrayal and murder when he discovers a vile Turkish plot to assassinate French espionage agents. Evil of a more enduring kind awaits him in Transylvania where he engages in a mortal combat with bloodthirsty Vlad the Impaler and his horrific army of the living dead. With his life at stake, Indy must garner all his strength and wits in order to defeat the fiend and save mankind.
Direction
Mike Newell to Dick Maas: 'You take the vampires.'
Production
Istanbul streets to Transylvania castles on TV movie budget sorcery.
Practical Effects
Vlad's army: actual humans in rubber masks, blessedly.
Director
Mike Newell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was stitched from two episodes of the cancelled Young Indy TV series, explaining the jarring tonal whiplash between war espionage and supernatural horror.
Dick Maas, who directed the Transylvania half, was fresh off Amsterdamned and would later direct the cult slasher Saint—his horror credentials explain why the vampire sequence feels like an entirely different film.
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