J.R.R. Tolkien famously said that “cellar door” is the most beautiful pairing of words in the English language. You’re not likely to think so fondly of the phrase, however, while watching “Fréwaka,” an old-dark-house horror movie in which said door — red and creaky and decorated with a rusty horseshoe that radiates the very opposite of good luck — proves the portal to a whole realm of unlovely things. The second feature from Irish writer-director Aislinn Clarke may as well share a title with her first, “The Devil’s Doorway,” which landed prominent distribution (including a deal with IFC Midnight) by applying well-worn genre devices to more locally specific nerve
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