Thrillers and horror lean on coin flips, roulette cylinders, contracts, and...

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Thrillers and horror lean on coin flips, roulette cylinders, contracts, and rigged games to ramp up dread by putting fate front and center. In *No Country for Old Men*, the coin toss isn’t just a game—it’s a chilling test of life or death