Amish Witches: The True Story of Holmes County

If you think Blair Witch in Amish Country then you have this movie. Unfortunately a lot of the acting is poor. When you combine that with the hand held camera effect it just comes off as amateurish.

I'm from this community. I belonged to a different less strict group of Amish as a little girl, but we had swartzentruber friends. I still visit frequently. You wouldn't see a sign welcoming you to the swartzentruber settlement. The Amish (actors) depicted in this movie are not swartzentruber.

I'm from Middlefield Ohio. About an hour from Holmes County and the second largest Amish community in Ohio. First, the Amish guide is not Amish. He is English. Everything about him is wrong. His clothes, his hair. His lack of Amish dialect or accent. Real Amish don't talk like him. The girls are acting like they've never seen earphones or iPhones before. They've all used one and many own them . These girls are not Amish. Their Dutch is not accurate. The sector of Amish is not known to any Amish I know. I watched 30 minutes and shut it down because I hate how badly they are representing Amish. Amish are hard working normal people. They are right there as a neighbor when you need help. They are simple and don't allow technology most of the time. But they are not witches or conspiracists. This movie does not do anything remotely associated with being a film. It does not have a plot, nor actors(of any quality) . This is the worst film I've seen in my lifetime. Pretend "reality" that it's not .. and horrible fake Amish actors. .. misrepresentation, did I say bad acting?.. total giveaways that these people are not Amish. This movie could have been made without using Amish setting as a backstop. Or using Amish at all. Or fake Amish that make real ones look crazy. What a horrible movie! Stop being racist toward Amish! Such a disappointment to see Amish being abused by these filmmakers.

I started this in Discovery+ thinking it was actually true. About 12 seconds in, I realized it wasn't actually a documentary. The actors aren't even remotely decent. Lifetime has better actors. Lmao So a quick Google and about 6 seconds, I found that this is not actually a true story and is a scripted show. Not reality at all. Why this is advertised as true is beyond me, I'm really disappointed, and somewhat offended that anyone would try to pass this off as a documentary. Such crap. I turned it off after 3 minutes. And that was about 2 minutes and 48 seconds (see above) too long.

I found this on discovery plus and knew it was fake before it even started. To find Amish - true Amish -in Holmes county who are willing to be filmed is not really a thing. I'm from that area. The Amish have a very specific accent that they didn't even bother having the bad actors replicate. So another indicator. It's so bad I don't even know how it got the rating it did. And married Amish have a beard. No mustache. Never understood the movie producers who think adding true story to a movie when it's not was ever cool. It just makes me turn it off immediately. Don't bother. It's not even a good Blair witch spoof.