I rented the movie after reading the highly rated reviews. Most of the suspense moments in the movie happen in the dark and I had to glue my eyes to the screen to be able to see anything. Not sure where the horror is; I could not find it. Just as I thought things were picking up, it ended! I'm now sitting here thinking what it was that I actually watched (or not; because the screen was dark most of the time). Accounts of a journalist who looked like she was wearing a wig, some found footage shown here and there, and blurry scenes where I thought stuff "might" actually be happening... That's what I'm left with. Well, thank you but, no thank you.

...suffering through this ordeal, that is.

Right, well I haven't even seen the first movie or documentary here, as I sat down to watch the 2023 "Horror in the High Desert 2 Minerva". So I didn't know what I was in for. I believed it was a horror movie, and thus I opted to watch it, even without having seen the first movie.

And I have to say I am rather confused whether "Horror in the High Desert 2 Minerva" is supposed to be a documentary or a movie shot to look like a documentary. But truth be told, the contents that unfolded on the screen were so boring and pointless that it hardly matter, because I simply didn't care about what was going on. I was expecting to watch a horror movie, and instead I am served a documentary of sorts.

This was a swing and a miss, and it is not something I would recommend you waste your time, money or effort on.

My rating of "Horror in the High Desert 2 Minerva", from writer and director Dutch Marich, lands on a one out of ten star, as it was nothing at all what I was lead to believe.