I don't think it's a great movie, but I think it's an effective horror film. The ending is stupid, however. To your points, I would say:
1.) Killer dogs at night would be largely invisible, unless the island is equipped with floodlights. And I believe that killer dogs in daylight would be quite scary.
2.) You're right. They do look like normal dogs. I think that made the movie *more* effective, not less. If they looked like killer wolves, or if they seemed like alien creatures in dogs' bodies, it would have been silly. But the fact that they looked like normal dogs but were clearly *not* normal dogs, that made it far more unsettling. To me. Obviously not to you.
The sorority girls in "Black Christmas" are morons. Put yourself in their position, and I believe you would have acted very different than they did. Meantime, they're paralyzed by a "blizzard" that looks like a mild winter storm, and even though one of their sisters can drive right up to the house, the police say they can't respond to a multiple homicide in less than two hours because of the weather.
I enjoyed "Black Christmas," but there was not one moment in that movie when I was scared or nervous, not one time that I jumped. For much of "The Breed," I was nervous, and there were times that I jumped. That's the difference between an effective horror film and an ineffective one.
"Black Christmas" (remake) - 2/10
"The Breed" - 6/10 or maybe 7/10.
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