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This is I think is the base art used for the movie's poster and the home video covers. The headstone is left blank, with plenty of empty space on the bottom, to fit the logo and the associated texts for such things, and it can easily be set up differently for different language releases.
Speaking of which, Return Of The Living Dead and home video is a dicey subject, the original VHS release has a song or two switched out, and some of the DVD and BluRay releases remove a lot of the cool licensed music and alters a lot of the original audio (changing the voices on zombies and what not). I fucking hate this, and this was in part licensing issues, and it was either Dan O'Bannon having a George Lucas moment, or John Russo being a hack fraud like usual. The original sound design is really perfect, and the music for this movie is very much part of its character.
There is however a Blu-Ray release available which is 99% intact, with the original audio and the original music (the one change being that one song is switched for a version without vocals in one scene, for who knows what reason).
The version I'm talking about is the UK Special Edition Blu-Ray, it also comes with a lot of behind the scenes material, and interviews with cast and crew, as well as some of the musicians. For guys like me who love to see 'how the sausage is made' with effects heavy horror films, this stuff is great.
