Elissa Dowling
Acting
The desire to perform came early for Elissa Dowling, by age 8 she was dancing in the NYC Ballet Company's "The Nutcracker". At age 11 she was invited to tour with an improv troop where she gained valuable experience in the art of ad lib. By 13 she had already starred in stage productions including "Little Shop of Horrors" and had her television debut as the notorious lips singing the opening theme song from "Rocky Horror Picture Show". The transition from stage to screen has worked well for Elissa whose expansive acting range has already landed her unique and diverse movie roles such as a transvestite bartender, an attorney, a serial killer, even a gothic dominatrix from New York. Her skills as a character actress have afforded her film performances so intense that she is almost completely unrecognizable. Several of the films she has starred in have been lined up with Lions Gate distribution and she has also achieved a recognized body of work within the independent movie circuit.
Filmography
- 2026Special Op: Rent-a-Cop — Mother
- 2025Ouija: A New Beginning — Molly Price
- 2024American Trash — Linda
- 2024An American Masquerade — Indiana Union, Co-Producer
- 2024Barbie & Kendra Crash Joe Bob's Drive-In Jamboree! — (voice)
- 2024Conjuring the Cult — Michelle Bryson
- 2024Portraits — Lauren
- 2024The Devil’s Trap
- 202316 Bits — Alice
- 2023Bloodthirst — Elena Thompson
- 2023Kill Dolly Kill — Nurse Graves
- 2022Amber Road — Emma
- 2022Baby Oopsie 2: Murder Dolls — Ula
- 2022Clown Motel 2
- 2022Night of the Tommyknockers — Mary
- 2022Terror Toons 4 — Twin
- 2022The Electric Man — Mrs. Manson
- 2022The Last Slay Ride — Victoria
- 2022The Most Dangerous Game — Mary
- 2022The Sierra Nevada Murders — Jenna Anders
- 2021Axeman at Cutter's Creek — Stacy
- 2020Barbie & Kendra Storm Area 51 — Chef Staci (voice)
- 2020Children of Camp Blood
- 2020Clown Fear — Court Jester
- 2020Noirland — Penelope
- 20193 Bears Christmas — Madame Rosa
- 2019Automation — Jenny
- 2019Camp Blood Kills — (archive footage)
- 2019Girl on the Third Floor — Sadie
- 2019It Wants Blood! — Mrs. Vanderpool
- 2019Rootwood — Jessica
- 2018Death House — Doctor Rowena
- 2018Ghost of Camp Blood — Woman in Flashback
- 2018Hell's Kitty — Jaimie Screech Curtis
- 2018Lake of Shadows — Ellen Colby
- 2018Limelight — Starla
- 2018The Body — Party Coke Girl (uncredited)
- 2017Bonejangles — Rowena
- 2017Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Maude
- 2017Dracula in a Women's Prison — Perez
- 2017Fetish Factory — Bible Thumper
- 2017Land Shark — Candy
- 2017Party Bus To Hell — Cult Member Sect
- 2017Spreading Darkness — Misty Kroeben
- 2017The Black Room — Terry
- 2017The Last Revenant — Tiffany
- 2016Beach Massacre at Kill Devil Hills — Samantha
- 2016Don't Kill It — Sexy Demon
- 2016It Watches — Victim
- 2015Exquisite Corpse — Katie
- 2015Tales of Halloween — Velma
- 2015We Are Still Here — Eloise Dagmar
- 2015Werewolves in Heat — Zooey
- 2015Whispers
- 2014Disciples — Rhiannon
- 2014Shhhh — Lesbian Vampire #2
- 2014Starry Eyes — Taters Girl 3
- 2013Axeman at Cutter's Creek — Stacy
- 2013Cheap Thrills — Tweaker
- 2013Telephone World — Rachel Plasky
- 2012A Night of Nightmares — Ginger
- 2012Aaron's House — Jenna
- 2012Adventures Into the Woods: A Sexy Musical — Wicked Witch
- 2012Bloody Bloody Bible Camp — Betty
- 2012Deadly Presence — Jennifer
- 2012The Locals — Lynn Sue
- 2012Waiting for Dracula
- 2011Abolition — Mia
- 2011Emmanuelle Through Time: Emmanuelle's Skin City — Paula
- 2011Luther’s Magic Weed — Vanessa
- 2011Peeping Blog — Jane Doe
- 2011Psychosomatika — Persephone
- 2011Raymond Did It — Paige
- 2011Showgirls 2: Penny's from Heaven — Ultra Vixen
- 2011The Corporate Cutthroat Massacre — New Girl
- 2011The Theatre Bizarre — Subs
- 2010Dahmer vs. Gacy — Jezebel
- 2010His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th — Scream Queen
- 2010Ludlow — Maddy
- 2010Orgy of the Damned — Veronica
- 2010The Book of Zombie — Henrietta
- 2009Absolute Evil — Lillie McCane
- 2009Crustacean — Thumper Stain
- 2009Dread — Tamsin Kendall
- 2009In a Spiral State — Honey
- 2009Nightstalker — Heather
- 2009Samurai Priest Vampire Hunter — Goldstreeter
- 2009She Alien — Tamara
- 2009Thirsty — Legs
- 2008Aliens Gone Wild — Alien
- 2008Death Racers — Daisy
- 2008Diary of a Serial Killer — Kat
- 2008O.C. Babes and the Slasher of Zombietown — Madison
- 2008Son Of Sam — Brenda Klein
- 2008The Legend of Bloody Mary — Mary Winters
- 2007Borderline Cult — Melanie
- 2007Cold Blood Canyon — Stephanie Halstead
- 2007Mummy Maniac — Jennifer
- 2007The Tomb — Girlfriend
- 2007Transmorphers — Dr. Taddish
- 2006Black Dahlia — Kate
- 2006Dracula's Curse — Pure Blood
- 2006The Raven — Victim
- Aquatic Siege — Mary Cooper
- Compatible — Janell Taggert
- Demon Queen Pinball Machine — Demon Queen
- The Mangled — Carolyn Parker
- Violence on Demand
Appearances as themselves (2)
- 2012I Heart Monster Movies — Self
- 2010Welcome to my Darkside: Women in Horror — Self