To be honest, I didn't quite "get" the first one, much less the remake. It seems to me that "horror" comes from "threat", and on this movie, humans were on top the whole time. Every death seemed like a cause of stupidity. To me Dawn of the dead was nothing more than "eye candy".
Zombies were meant to be scarry, not dumb.

I would'nt mind having a shotgun and helping myself to some "target practice" with some slow ass zombies.