Hmm. I've always quite liked The Birds, but after reading that I am really rather keen to see it again.

Perhaps not so artistic, but one of the things I liked about Dawn of the Dead - both versions - was the sense of widespreadness, if there is such a word. In the original, we get to see an awful lot of ordinary people who are dealing with the problem (or failing to) in their own way. We get some great longshots in the remake, and a sense of a many stories hinted at.