On paper, Netflix’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022), a legacy sequel to the original horror classic, and The Toxic Avenger (2025), a reboot of the cult classic Troma franchise, probably have little in common. But as director Macon Blair reveals in an interview with The Austin Chronicle, The Toxic Avenger and Texas Chainsaw Massacre share a filming location!
And no, they weren’t filmed in Texas. Not even Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
It was back in late 2020 that director David Blue Garcia packed up and headed off to Bulgaria to film Netflix’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre, with the country in Southeast Europe playing the role of a small Texas town in the streaming sequel to Tobe Hooper’s horror classic.
As the film’s Wikipedia page explains, “Garcia said it was a challenge to make Bulgaria look like Texas, but they leaned into the idea that it looked more like West Texas.”
In the Summer of 2021, in the direct wake of Leatherface chainsawing his way through Bulgaria-as-Texas, Macon Blair turned the very same location in Bulgaria into Tromaville!
The Austin Chronicle explains, “In 2021, off to Bulgaria [Blair] went, just after another Austin indie filmmaker, David Blue Garcia, had wrapped his big studio debut for Legendary, 2022’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre, at the same studios in Sofia. In fact, they used the same sets, so Leatherface’s Harlow, Texas, and Toxie’s Tromaville, N.J., are the same place.”
“It’s been totally reskinned and there’s different storefronts and paint jobs and extras,” Blair tells the outlet, “but some of the awnings and stuff, you might recognize.”
See if you notice that Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Toxic Avenger were filmed in the very same location when The Toxic Avenger releases in theaters on August 29, 2025!
‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ (2022)