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.

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    9 months ago

    Wikipedia says it was released by Sterling Home Entertainment in the US, there is a distorted audio version available on YouTube that runs 2 and a half hours but includes the 97 minute movie with completely distorted audio in the first 97 minutes.

    There might be some trick to restoring the audio but I don’t know what that is.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJdGGAkEyn0&t=5854

    It looks pretty fun, I’ll let you know if I find something else.

    Update: original danish audio with English directors commentary subtitles(getting closer): https://ww1.m4uhd.tv/watch-movie-skyggen-1998-268182.html

    Fun fact: in the danish film archives in copenhagen, there’s a library where you can watch this and read it’s screenplay, with what looks like tons of movies for free in cinema chairs on flatscreens: https://www.dfi.dk/cinemateket/bibliotek-og-videotek/videoteket

    It has been poorly dubbed into English according to Amazon reviewers of the DVD.

    If you do get a copy, the original Danish with English subtitles might be the way to go.