a young Hispanic man finds himself thrust into a nightmare when he begins working at a secluded orchard owned by an eccentric elderly couple, who plan on sacrificing him to their dark tree god.

Okay, as long as the black tree fits in your allegorical scheme.? Like,? the tree of death in the fields of agribusiness as the antithesis to the tree of life in the garden of Eden.? Whatever.

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(And maybe the bad seed was the result of a GMO mutation.)

Okay, as long as the black tree fits in your allegorical scheme.? Like,? the tree of death in the fields of agribusiness as the antithesis to the tree of life in the garden of Eden.? Whatever.

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(And maybe the bad seed was the result of a GMO mutation.)

Well, then I have a modest? and outrageous suggestion. Take a cue from William Blake's adage, "the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom".? And if not to the palace of wisdom, then, perchance,? a script sale and maybe a hit movie.

IMHO, the "dark tree god"? seems contrived.? As if you were trying to gin up a motivation for why the wicked farm couple would make their farmer ingest the bad seed.? ?Why not just put it out there front and center:? the farm couple get farmer workers to ingest the seed to punish them for being illegal immigrants (as most of them are).? They exploit them for the growing season and then kill them off with the bad seed so they can't remain in the country, disappear into the underground economy (which most of them will eventually do).

She could have been singled out because she's pregnant (a rape victim on the farm?) and for darn sure the farmers don't want an illegal immigrant to give birth to a child who would automatically be a naturalized citizen, free from from the threat of deportation.

Look how Jordan Peele addressed the issue of race in "Get Out", the most talked about movie of 2017 and a box-office hit.

fwiw