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- ↑ Register Horror Express: "Giovanni Frezza, a creepy kid icon of 80’s Italian exploitation cinema thanks to Lucio Fulci’s "House by the Cemetery" and Enzo Castellari’s "The New Barbarians"
- ↑ Lucio Fulci's A House by the Cemetery
- 1 2 "B-Notes". Archived from the original on 12 April 2008. Retrieved 5 June 2008.
- ↑ Monster Hunter: The New Barbarians "It all happened when Scorpion's car was in need of repair and he took it to his personal mechanic and who should come out of his trailer shop but Giovanni Frezza. Perhaps his secret identity name doesn't mean anything to you, but you'll instantly recognize his flowing blonde locks, pouty lips, and his general "Village of the Damned" countenance from his role as Bobby, the femme-voiced kid in "House by the Cemetery". He also turned up to save "A Blade in the Dark" and tried to resuscitate the brain-dead "Manhattan Baby."
- ↑ Giovanni Frezza's Official MySpace page
- ↑ New York Times Movies
- ↑ "Vacanze di Natale (in [[Italian language|Italian]])". Archived from the original on 4 June 2008. Retrieved 5 June 2008.
- ↑ Monster Hunter
- ↑ Darkside "In case you were wondering, the lad with the shotgun in the white jeep at the films ending was indeed young Giovanni Frezza, who also played the young lad in Lucio Fulci's "House by the Cemetery".
