_Amish Witches: The True Story of Holmes County_ is a 2016 supernatural horror film based on a true story of a reality TV crew and a small group of young Amish women working together to document an evil force plaguing the community with unexplainable events.

The plot, as you can imagine from the title, deals with rumors of witchcraft in an Amish community. Majority of the film is shown as “found footage,” as it is shot by the reality TV crew, who is waiting in the wings to get proof that witchcraft does exist, despite the denial of some of the community members. What’s funny about the film is that it is supposedly based on “a true story,” when in actuality, _The True Story of Holmes County_ is the name of the reality TV show that the film is based on, not something that actually happened in real life. I would’ve been amazed if such a story existed because the plot itself was… unbelievable.

I mean, from the title of the film, the idea of something supernatural happening in what’s portrayed to be such an isolated community (in reality) was intriguing to me, hence why I wanted to watch the film, but the way the events in the plot happened was laughably bad. Many of them seemed out of place and didn’t seem very convincing.

The actors weren’t very believable either, other than the ones who played the three Amish women the TV crew focused on. You can feel the tension of the women’s differing beliefs on the subject of witchcraft in the community.

The writing was pretty bland. There wasn’t much depth in anything the characters said. (Then again, it was supposedly a reality TV show lol.) I did like the set design; the film covered a lot of the land the settlement was on. The thing that stuck out to me the most in the film was the special effects used for the supernatural events. They were poorly executed, to the point where I laughed in one of the found footage scenes.

Overall, I didn’t really enjoy this movie and will probably not rewatch.