The Black Demon, a sci-fi thriller about a family encountering a dangerous shark, was filmed in the Dominican Republic, not in Mexico, where the story takes place. The production used various locations in the country. Some scenes of the movie had to be filmed in a studio due to the involvement of a fictional Megalodon. Pinewood Dominican Republic Studios provided a large water tank for filming intense ocean sequences. The water tank at Pinewood Dominican Republic Studios has been used for other movies like The Lost City, Old, and 47 Meters Down. It offers a practical alternative to filming in the open ocean.

The Black Demon jumps on the Megalodon hype train and depicts the story of a family encountering one of the gigantic dangerous sharks while visiting an oil rig in Baja California, a state in Mexico. However, the 2023 science fiction thriller movie was not filmed in the same location where it took place.