I stumbled upon this cyberpunk movie that was called ‘Webmaster’ in the US. It was also called ‘Skyggen’ in Denmark, where it was made in 1998. The trailer makes it look like a perfectly bizarre low-budget cyberpunk movie. Honestly, the trailer reminds me a lot of Nirvana with Christopher Lambert in that they both seem to have over-the-top cyberpunk visuals and plot while also being… not good movies.
Anyway, I’d like to watch Webmaster (in english) and I can’t find it anywhere. Can anyone help me find some way to watch this movie? I thought it might be posted to youtube under some weird random name but I’ve had no luck so far. I can’t even find any services that would rent it either. But maybe one of you can find it!
Oh, and if anyone cares, here’s a synopsis of the movie:
J.B. (Lars Bom) - an ultra-talented Webmaster of an illicit cyber-domain known for massive amounts of illegal money transfers is captured and is put under suspicion by the cyber-domain boss named Stoiss (Jørgen Kiil) when an intruder hacks into the system and steals the Stoiss’s money. Stoiss sticks a heart controller device on J.B. and gives him 35 hours to find who took his money or he dies.
Was it ever released in the US? I don’t see any English-speaking countries listed on the IMDB page for its release date.
I guess given that it has an English name of Webmaster I just assumed that was the US release name. Skyggen (the Danish name) just means The Shadow so someone renamed it to Webmaster.
Even if there might not be a US release, I’m pretty sure there was an English-language release. I honestly don’t know for certain though.