Dear Zombie Master: 'City of the Living Dead' Original Ending

Dear Zombie Master:

I’m wondering if you know what the original ending of City of the Living Dead (1980) was before it was accidentally destroyed and replaced with the ending we now see of the boy running and the girl screaming?

This is one of those questions that should be answered by the maestro himself.

'Originally, the child ran towards the camera and we cut to the two adults smiling to themselves. That was it, a happy ending. One day i was in the editing room, and we watched the footage of the adults who were arguing in the shot- they didn't get along. So we cut to the little boy running and cut back to the footage of them arguing. But in that shot, there was an aberration on the film where it looked like the image started to break up. So we used that. Now it's not a happy ending.' -Lucio Fulci

Good hunting and aim high,

The Zombie Master