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.
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. horror in the high desert exclusive
The footage cuts to black. Gary Hinge is never seen again. In an Horror in the High Desert exclusive for travelers and urban explorers, we have mapped the exact geolocations used in the film. Unlike most horror movies that film on soundstages, Marich shot this on location in the remote stretches between Lovelock, Nevada, and the Black Rock Desert. The Premise: When Reality Bites Harder Than Fiction