“Forget about vampires – Zombies are the new undead,” reports Cary Darling for McClatchy Newspapers as she tells us 5 reasons that Zombies rule…

1. My undead can beat up your undead
Ghosts can be scary (“Poltergeist”), but they can also be romantic (“Ghost”). And sure, no thinking young girl really wants to bring Count Orlok, the creepy vampire at the center of the 1922 film “Nosferatu,” home to meet Mom and Dad. But a lot has changed in almost a century.

For the past 50 years or so — from “Dark Shadows’ ” Barnabas Collins to “Interview With the Vampire’s” Lestat to “Twilight’s” Edward Cullen and “True Blood’s” Bill Compton — vampires have become increasingly moody, broody and seductive. But if ghosts can be romance and “Unchained Melody,” and vampires are now all emo and Death Cab for Cutie, zombies are just straight-up gangsta and N.W.A.

2. 24-hour party people
Granted, vampires have the super-human strength going for them, and they can be as smart as Bill Gates’ accountant. But vampires have one big flaw: They’re mostly useless during the day. And don’t get me started on werewolves, which are frightful only at night, one night of the month. Big whoop. (Technically they aren’t undead, either, but if you believe the “True Blood” saga or the BBC America series “Being Human,” they have an interesting relationship with vampires.)

Zombies may be as dumb as a pudding cup, but they are zombies all day long, every day, forever. Or until someone shoots them in the head. There’s none of this anguish about transformation and duality of human nature. For zombies it’s kill, eat. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Read the other 3 reasons here