The Premise: When Reality Bites Harder Than Fiction For the uninitiated, Horror in the High Desert presents itself as a true-crime documentary. It follows the 2017 disappearance of an experienced outdoorsman named Gary Hinge , a minimalist and avid hiker living a solitary life in the remote high desert of Nevada.
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The "exclusive" angle of the film is its gimmick: the discovery of a damaged GoPro camera found three years after Gary vanished, 85 miles off his intended route. The Premise: When Reality Bites Harder Than Fiction
In the first film, keen-eyed viewers noticed a piece of mail in Gary’s van addressed to a P.O. Box in "Minerva, NV." There is no Minerva, Nevada. The sequel reveals that "Minerva" is a code name for a series of abandoned Cold War bunkers buried beneath the desert. It doesn't want to scare you