Oops! I've Been Driven Mundane
2025 · 15m · USA
Directed by Nick Schoenbrodt
Genres: dark comedy, drama
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, tense
A stop-motion animator named Morkie is left to care for her great aunt's strange plants and bullfrog while trying to work. When the frog bites her hand, the constant croaking and spiraling nightmares unravel her grip on reality.
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The scouts
A stop-motion animator gets bit by a frog and the rest of the film is just her unraveling — monochrome, frantic, the lead's physicality doing all the heavy lifting. The title is a warning shot.
Stop-motion animator as eerie dramedy protagonist — Nick Schoenbrodt's premise is meta in a Cronenberg-ish way and the visual program sounds genuinely worked-out.
Monochrome dramedy where a stop-motion animator's grip slips while a great-aunt's bullfrog croaks her into nightmare — the bullfrog as co-star and the lead 'flourishing in physicality' is the right craft framing for a Quay Brothers-energy spiral.
Reviews
An eerie dramedy driven by its frantic lead and bold visual storytelling.